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Searingly powerful Peter Grimes from Welsh National Opera

1 week ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

With vivid memories of WNO’s outstanding Death in Venice last season, expectations ran high for this new production of Benjamin Britten’s operatic masterpiece. We were not disappointed, and largely the result of a seasoned cast, an augmented chorus and some terrific playing from the orchestra under the inspired direction of Tomáš Hanus.
Superlative Performances from Vache Baroque at Magdalen College, Oxford

4 weeks ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

As part of the Music in Oxford series, the award-winning music ensemble Vache Baroque produced an artfully conceived programme built around Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis letter of 1897, written during his incarceration in Reading Gaol for ‘gross indecency’.
A Captivating new production of Pelléas et Mélisande at Opéra Bastille

1 month ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

Premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1902 and closely based on Maurice Maeterlinck’s play, Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is renowned for its collision between “its severest realism and the most impalpable dream world”, (Pierre Boulez). Its shadowy setting framing the plot’s love triangle is soaked in an illusory, mysterious atmosphere.
Austen meets Dove: Mansfield Park at Guildhall School of Music & Drama

1 month ago | operatoday.com | Barry Creasy

Jonathan Dove’s opera Mansfield Park (with libretto adapted from Jane Austen’s novel by Alasdair Middleton) was first performed in 2011 and commissioned by Heritage Opera – a perfect work for the company, as it was originally scored for piano duet and soloists, and their performances in several stately homes provided the perfect ready-made backdrop.
Charpentier from La Nuova Musica and Voktett Hannover at Wigmore Hall

2 months ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

Under the direction of Baroque specialist David Bates, La Nuova Musica joined forces with the German a capella ensemble Voktett Hannover to reveal two sides of French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Sacred and secular offerings from the late 17th century illustrated the composer’s synthesis of French sensibility and Italian passion, its blend generated from an extended visit to Rome in the late 1660s when he studied with Giocomo Carissimi.
Spotlight on Carissimi from Vox Luminis

2 months ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

Two death sentences; one fatal, one reprieved, and a near-fatal encounter with a whale. These events formed the central focus of dramatic performances by the Belgium ensemble Vox Luminis in their exploration of vocal music by Giocomo Carissimi. The early Baroque master is justifiably best known for Jephte (published 1650), one of ten or so oratorios written for performance during Lent while he was employed as maestro di cappella at the Jesuit Seminary in Rome.
Compelling performances from OperaUpClose: Riders to the Sea & The Last Bit of the Moon

2 months ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

What does one perform with Vaughan Williams’s seldom heard one act tragedyabout a mother who has lost her last surviving son somewhere off the west coastof Ireland? Drawn from J.M. Synge’s doom-laden play set on the Aran Islandsand premiered by students at the Royal College of Music in 1937, Riders to theSea has occasionally been partnered by Holst’s Savitra and even moreinfrequently with rarities such as Darius Milhaud’s Le Pauvre Matelot andLennox Berkeley’s A Dinner Engagement.
A powerful and unsettling Aida at the Royal Opera House

2 months ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

An empty stage enclosing grey walls of a concrete bunker. This is the initial impression we have of Robert Carsen’s Aida, presented at the Royal Opera House in a first revival by Gilles Rico. The cheerless staging does not so much convey a barren Egyptian desert but suggests, in its non-specific anywhere locale, an unnamed modern-day totalitarian state, an amalgamation comprising three-parts United States, Russia and China.
Georgian born and Italian-trained singer George Andguladze debuts at the Royal Opera House

2 months ago | operatoday.com | David Truslove

David Truslove talks to the operatic bass George Andguladze who makes his Covent Garden debut as the King of Egypt in Verdi’s Aida. Conducted by Daniel Oren, this is the first revival of Robert Carsen’s 2022 production. DT In 2017 the English language newspaper Georgia Today described you as “a renowned and exceptionally young Bass who, at the age of 32, has already conquered pinnacles in the world opera”. To what are they referring? GA This refers to my achievements in Italy.
Gesualdo Six captivate a full house at St. Cross, Winchester

Dec 23, 2024 | operatoday.com | David Truslove

You can count on the fingers of one hand those a cappella vocal groups within the UK that come close to the finesse of The Gesualdo Six. In terms of formidable technique and sheer beauty of tone, and with impeccable tuning, blend and balance taken for granted, this internationally acclaimed six-voice ensemble is the real deal.