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Tag Archives: Britten
Magic from the pit in Nevill Holt Opera’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nevill Holt Opera, 12th June 2019 Musk roses, oxlips, nodding violets. The grounds of the Nevill Holt estate in Leicestershire are probably host to all of the flora Oberon describes to Puck to aid him … Continue reading
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Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anna Harvey, Anna Morrissey, Brian McAlea, Britten, Britten Sinfonia, Daisy Brown, Edmund Danon, Jasper William Cartwright, Lawson Anderson, Martha Jones, Meinir Wyn Roberts, Nevill Holt Opera, Oliver Brignall, Padraic Rowan, Peter Kirk, Richard Pinkstone, Simon Kenny, Timothy Edlin, Timothy Morgan, Tristan Hambleton
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White-hot intensity from the Emerson Quartet at Milton Court
Emerson Quartet **** Milton Court, 8th November 2018 Benjamin Britten’s String Quartet no. 3 in G major – with its closing farewell-to-life passacaglia inspired by music from his opera Death in Venice – was composed in 1976, during the composer’s final illness. That same … Continue reading
Hot ice and strange snow: an unseasonal return for Carsen’s bed-hopping Dream
Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream **** English National Opera, 1st March 2018 Heading to the Coliseum for A Midsummer Night’s Dream amid snow and ice is a disconcerting prospect – “hot ice and strange snow” indeed. Forget wild thyme blowing and substitute … Continue reading
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Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Alexander Soddy, Andri Björn Róbertsson, Britten, Christopher Ainslie, Clare Presland, David Webb, Eleanor Dennis, Emma Carrington, English National Opera, Graeme Danby, Jonathan Lemalu, Joshua Bloom, Matthew Durkan, Michael Levine, Miltos Yerolemou, Robert Carsen, Robert Murray, Simon Butteriss, Soraya Mafi, Timothy Robinson
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On the edge of the precipice: Britten and Mahler from Janine Jansen, Semyon Bychkov and the LSO
LSO/ Semyon Bychkov **** Barbican Hall, 5th October 2017 It was another evening staring into the abyss courtesy of the London Symphony Orchestra. A fortnight after Sir Simon Rattle drove his charges into hell in a thrilling Damnation of Faust, Semyon Bychkov presided over … Continue reading
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Tagged Britten, Janine Jansen, London Symphony Orchestra, Mahler, Semyon Bychkov
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