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Challenge and Opportunity: Eglise Gutiérrez and Cendrillon [The Royal Opera’s Cendrillon – 5-16 July 2011]
Mansel Stimpson talks to the Cuban soprano who adores Massenet... The last opera to be programmed in the present season at the Royal Opera House is a work never before...
John Woolrich and Friends at Kings Place
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 Woolrich Ulysses Awakes Wolf arr Woolrich Italian Songs [I was told you were journeying far away; My lover is singing outside the...
Feature Review: English Haydn Festival – Bridgnorth 8-12 June 2011
This is the eighteenth year of the English Haydn Festival and now that the problems caused by the illness and death of its director John Reid resulting in the cancellation...
Nico Muhly talks about Two Boys
Nico Muhly is in London for the world premiere of his first opera, Two Boys, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera but brought to English National Opera for its first production....
All About People: Roderick Williams and Peter Grimes [The Royal Opera’s Peter Grimes – 21 June-3 July 2011]
Mansel Stimpson talks to the baritone who returns to Covent Garden to sing the role of Ned Keene in Britten’s first operatic masterpiece... In those long gone days when cinemas...
2010 Editorials
A selection of Classical Source Editorials from 2011: Sullen faces, Birdwoman, and Christmas greetings It’s a title that John Cage might have coined! It was a pleasure to read Leif...
2011 Editorials
A selection of Classical Source Editorials from 2011: Strike One and They’re Out A warm welcome to Leonard Slatkin – Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Patron of...
Eloquence
A Night at the Opera – Opera UK’s Gala at Cadogan Hall [26 June 2011]
Michael Darvell previews a grand night for singing in the fund-raising gala for Opera UK at Cadogan Hall... It’s not everybody who, on reaching retirement, would decide to create an...
On Her Own Terms: Martina Serafin and Tosca [The Royal Opera’s Tosca – 7 June-17 July 2011]
Mansel Stimpson talks to Martina Serafin about the path which led to her becoming an international soprano... For the Viennese-born soprano Martina Serafin building a career meant finding her own...
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