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Hurn Court Opera

Nov 8, 2024 | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

HCO Singer of the Year Competition 2024, semi-finals and finals2 Nov, St Swithun’s School, WinchesterLast weekend saw the semi-finals and finals of the seventh HCO Singer of the Year Competition, run for the third consecutive year in collaboration with The Grange Festival.
PROM 45: Jamie Barton sings Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder

Aug 25, 2024 | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

In the great pantheon of German Romanticism there is a natural association of certain poets with certain composers: Heine and Schumann or Mörike and Wolf, for instance. Friedrich Rückert is a lesser name among poets, but he published some six thousand poems during his lifetime and there are 121 settings of his work, including by Schubert, the two Schumanns, Brahms, Bruch, Reger and Richard Strauss.
Bodacious Bordeaux: Santa Fe Elixir

Aug 3, 2024 | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

Santa Fe Opera’s piquant, frolicsome version of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) is currently regaling audiences with a revival of its popular 2009 staging. Director Stephen Lawless and his formidable creative team have set the tale in an Italian village that has been liberated by US soldiers just after World War Two. Ashley Martin-Davis’ set design has the upstage dominated by a huge billboard with scrolling artwork that reflects the shifting mood of the moment.
Master in teacher education, recruiting and other musings: an American’s perspective

Aug 1, 2024 | khrono.no | Gary Hoffman |Nord universitet |Campus Nesna

Denne teksten er et debattinnlegg. Innholdet i teksten uttrykker forfatterens egen mening. Originally an American jazz musician fromNew Orleans, in 2001, through quite an unusual set of circumstances, I foundmyself in Nesna, newly married, and freshly employed as a music teacher at «Høgskolen i Nesna», now Nord University. In the ensuing years, I haveexperienced a whirlwind of changes within Norway’s educational system.
Des Moines: Apollo’s Bare Body and Bared Souls

Jul 18, 2024 | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

Des Moines Metro Opera’s World Premiere of Damien Geter and Lila Palmer’s American Apollo could hardly have been more of an “occasion.”This intriguing musical exploration of the artistic and personal relationship between famed New England artist John Singer Sargent and his model Thomas Eugene McKeller has a lot going for it, not least of which is the abundance of prodigious talent evident in composer Geter and librettist Palmer.
Parts 1 and 2 of the Ring Cycle cherished at Longborough Festival Opera

Jul 4, 2024 | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

Der Ring des Nibelungen is the centre piece of this year’s Longborough Festival – all four instalments of Wagner’s epic staged over three successive weeks. That the performances take place in a converted barn in rural Gloucestershire says much for the inspiration and resourcefulness of Martin and Lizzie Graham who established the enterprise back in 1991 – a founding year that brought an operatic dream of a British Bayreuth to reality.
Mid Wales Opera asks its supporters for help after Powys County Council  throws it a funding lifeline

May 30, 2024 | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

Mid Wales Opera  which had been threatened with closure as a result of Arts Council Wales (ACW) cuts has been thrown a vital lifeline with a cash injection of £75,906 from Powys  County Council’s grant funding programme, aimed at supporting and transforming the creative industries within the region. It’s now asking its many supporters and all those who care about sustaining live opera in Wales and across the UK to help put it back on the road.
Mixed Performances of Mendelssohn from the OAE

Apr 30, 2024 | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

Judging by a revelatory all-Mendelssohn concert recently heard at the Anvil, Basingstoke with Sir András Schiff and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, I had every reason to assume these performances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall would be equally exciting. But this outing – the final event in a mini-series featuring all five symphonies, the two piano concertos and the Violin Concerto – was a very mixed affair.
A Mesmerising Death in Venice from Welsh National Opera

Mar 30, 2024 | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

Like the protagonist in Thomas Mann’s eponymous novella, Benjamin Britten’s failing health made him keenly aware of his own mortality as he embarked upon one of the most challenging projects of his career. Being the true artist that he was, Britten did not shy away from controversial subjects, despite any uncomfortable parallels with his own experiences or inclinations.
Naxos Founder, Klaus Heymann, Acquires Chandos Records

Mar 5, 2024 | operatoday.com | Gary Hoffman

Chandos Records, one of the world’s leading classical labels, has been acquired by Naxos founder, Klaus Heymann.