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Greenwich International String Quartet Festival – 29 April-1 May 2011 – Interview with David Kenedy
Bright sunlight greets me as I arrive at Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College, which looks even more spectacular than usual in the unseasonably summery swelter. This imposing World Heritage site,...
Doing the Right Thing: Jurgita Adamonytė and The Tsar’s Bride [The Royal Opera’s The Tsar’s Bride – 14 April-2 May 2011]
Mansel Stimpson meets the Lithuanian mezzo-soprano who returns to Covent Garden for a new and indeed first production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s historical yet still-relevant opera... All musicians and especially those in...
The Sound of Music [Hi-Fi, Shakespeare, and Stanley]
April 2011: Laurie Watt – inspired by Shakespeare, and his friend Stanley – reflects on the nature of sound and its true relationship with music... I have an old friend...
Heart and Brain: Endrik Wottrich and Fidelio [The Royal Opera’s Fidelio – 29 March-16 April 2011]
Returning to the role of Florestan in which he made his Covent Garden debut in 2007, Endrik Wottrich talks to Mansel Stimpson... The German tenor Endrik Wottrich is a professor...
Heinz Holliger In Profile [Kings Place, London, 23-26 March 2011]
Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, King’s Cross, London Wednesday to Saturday, 23-26 March 2011 While his status among the leading post-war musicians is undoubted, Heinz Holliger – composer,...
World Class Traveller: Carlo Ventre and Aida [The Royal Opera’s Aida – 11 March-15 April 2011]
Mansel Stimpson talks to the second tenor to appear as Radames in Covent Garden’s revival of Verdi’s opera as directed by David McVicar... Anyone who sets out to be a...
Interview with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – Kommilitonen! – Royal Academy of Music [18-25 March 2011]
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has returned to the opera stage with Kommilitonen!, written to a libretto by David Pountney, its premiere being at the Royal Academy of Music on Friday...
Never The Same Twice: Fabio Luisi and Aida [The Royal Opera’s Aida – 11 March-15 April 2011]
Mansel Stimpson talks to Fabio Luisi who conducts the first eight performances of Covent Garden’s revival of David McVicar’s production of Aida... This month sees the Italian conductor Fabio Luisi...
The Sound of Musicals – Ruth Leon’s Book
The Sound of Musicals Ruth Leon Oberon Books ISBN978-1-84943-018-0 Hardback, 128 Pages £9.99 In her introduction to this modest volume in the Oberon Masters theatre series Ruth Leon poses the...
BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Brian Ferneyhough [26 February 2011]
Ferneyhough String Quartet No.2 Sonatas for String Quartet Quatuor Diotima [Naaman Sluchin & Yun-Peng Zhoa (violins), Franck Chevalier (viola) & Pierre Morlet (cello)] Ferneyhough Plötzlichkeit [UK premiere] Carceri d’invenzione III...
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