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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Buxton Festival: Richard Strauss waltzes off with the prize….best in festival
Richard Strauss: Intermezzo Christine Storch Janis Kelly Robert Storch Stephen Gadd Baron Lummer Andrew Kennedy Notary Jonathan Best Kammersinger Njabulo Madlala Commercial Counsellor Jeremy Huw Williams Stroh Richard Roberts Legal Counsellor Colin Brockie AnnaSusanne Holmes Notary’s wifeMartha McLorinan Conductor Stephen Barlow DirectorStephen Unwin … Continue reading
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Buxton Festival – A marriage made in heaven?
The Marriage of Figaro – Marcus Portugal Figaro Nicholas Merryweather Susanna Emily Rowley Jones Marcellina Cara Curran Dr Bartolo Mark Saberton Cherubino Joana Seara Don Basilio Robert Winslade Anderson Rosina, Countess Almaviva Lisa Wilson Count Almaviva John-Colyn Gyeantey Antonio … Continue reading
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Buxton Opera Festival: Vivaldi L’Olimpiade – not a medal winner for Team Buxton
Antonio Vivaldi: L’Olimpiade Clistene Stephen Gadd Aristea Rachael Lloyd Argene Sally Bruce-Payne Megacle Louise Poole Licida Marie Elliott Aminta Mhairi Lawson Alcandro Jonathan Gunthorpe Director Richard Williams Costume designer Olivia Wells Musical directors Adrian Chandler & James Johnstone … Continue reading
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Buxton Opera Festival 2012: Jephtha – too hot for Handel?
Buxton Opera Festival: Jephtha by G.F. Handel Jephtha James Gilchrist Storge Susan Bickley Iphis Gillian KeithZebul Jonathan Best Hamor William Purefoy Angel Elizabeth Karani Conductor Harry Christophers, A Buxton Festival production, with the Orchestra of the Sixteen and Festival … Continue reading
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Buxton: Double Bill doesn’t double the pleasure or double the fun
Buxton Opera House: Double Bill – 17th July The Maiden in the Tower (Sibelius) & Kashchei the Immortal, Buxton Festival (Rimsky-Korsakov) Double bills present problems. Even Puccini’s relative success with Il Trittico hasn’t encouraged other composers into the genre. … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, my dear Web Page
The Web page is now a year old….like me it’s a little tired and in need of a bit of a redesign but hey we’re still in there writing & publishing…a special thanks today to Greg Lakin…without whom I couldn’t have started … Continue reading
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Buxton Opera Festival: Turn of the Screw 16th July 2012
Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw Governess: Fiona Murphy Peter Quint: Andrew Tortise Miss Jessel :Giselle Allen Mrs Grose: Yvonne Howard Flora: Lucia Vernon Miles: Thomas Copeland Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers Director: Oliver Mears Designer: Annemarie Woods Lighting designer : … Continue reading
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The Gershwins’ ® Porgy And Bess, Colosseum 11th July 2012
Porgy & Bess George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin London Stage Premiere of Cape Town Opera’s production Performed by Cape Town Opera Presented by Askonas Holt and Raymond Gubbay Porgy: Xolel Sixaba Bess: Tsakane Velentine Masawangayi Crown: … Continue reading
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The Still Centre of the Electoral Storm
Electoral College Obama 293 Romney 241 Senate Democrats 47 Republicans 47 (toss ups 3) We have reached the fallow fields that always mark out any election in the United States. In the long lost days before Primaries governed the outcome of … Continue reading
Joyce Didonato Wigmore Hall 6th July 2012
Joyce Didonato & David Zobel A Programme of songs by Venetian composers or inspired by Venice Joyce Didonato is a remarkable performer, a mezzo-soprano who has made the late baroque and early classical the core of her repertoire. She has an incomparable vocal … Continue reading
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