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Interview with Bruno Caproni [Simon Boccanegra in English National Opera’s new production, opens 8 June 2011]
Surely an international Verdi specialist named Bruno Caproni should not have a Northern Irish accent? “It’s always a big surprise for people when I open my mouth to speak for...
Interview with Anna Leese [Suzel in Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz at Opera Holland Park 2011, opens 10 June]
Sun or shade? “Sun every time for me. We don’t see enough of it in this country.” So it is that my conversation with Opera Holland Park’s latest principal soprano...
Opera Holland Park 2011 Preview [7 June-13 August]
The 2011 Opera Holland Park Season Donizetti’s Don Pasquale – 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 22 & 24 June Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz – 10, 15, 17, 21, 23 &...
Macduff’s Fourth Debut: Dimitri Pittas and Macbeth [The Royal Opera’s Macbeth – 24 May-18 June 2011]
As the Royal Opera revives Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Verdi’s Macbeth, Mansel Stimpson talks to the artist making his Covent Garden debut as Macduff... The tenor Dimitri Pittas, a New...
Total Immersion: Peter Eötvös [14 May 2011]
Eötvös Paris-Dakar [UK premiere] Derwischtanz Psalm 151 (in memoriam Frank Zappa) Sonata per sei [UK premiere] MarekTomasczewski (clarinet); Guildhall Jazz Band/Jules Buckley Ian Bufton, Emily Heathcote & Ya-Ching Yu (clarinets)...
Feature Review: The Metropolitan Opera – Die Walküre [“The Met: Live in HD”]
Wagner Die Walküre – Opera in three acts to a libretto by the composer [First Day of Der Ring des Nibelungen; sung in German with English Met Titles] Siegmund –...
Seeing is Believing – The Music of Nico Muhly [Kings Place 5 & 7 May 2011]
Purcell, arr. Britten Chacony in G minor Mahler Piano Quartet movement in A minor Gibbons, arr. Muhly This is the Record of John Muhly Motion Schubert String Trio in B...
Making Her Way: Eri Nakamura and Werther [The Royal Opera’s Werther – 5-21 May 2011]
Mansel Stimpson talks to the former Jette Parker Young Artist as she returns to Covent Garden for Massenet’s Werther... Being away from her homeland is no new experience for Eri...
Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2011 – Final
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano) with Gamal Khamis (piano) Schubert Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118 Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea – Addio Roma Gurney Five Elizabethan Songs – Sleep Schumann Die Kartenlegerin, Op.31/2 Mozart...
François-Xavier Roth talks about ideas and inspirations
The conductor François-Xavier Roth has a busy 2011: a concert with the LSO on 5 May that includes a Tim Garland premiere, a new recording of the music of Matalon...
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