Many years ago, when I was still tentatively dipping my toes in the world of professional singing (not a career choice for the faint-hearted) I attended a summer school that included a very interesting talk given by the accompanist and broadcaster Iain Burnside, who had much to say about what to do – and avoid…
This year, Glyndebourne festival staged its first production of an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie, first staged in Paris in 1733. By coincidence, this comes just one year after the revival of Ivan Alexandre’s production of the same work at the Paris Opéra, having been staged originally in 2009 in Toulouse. While Alexandre’s…
Recent performances in Dublin by Wide Open Opera, NI Opera and Lyric Opera, as well as the upcoming Opera Briefs from RIAM at The Lir, Cork Opera House’s tour to Kilkenny, Galway and Wicklow and the ongoing success of Wexford all give hope that, somehow, locally-produced live opera productions are still possible in Ireland, and…
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Opera Theatre Company: Promotional video for ‘Orfeo’
Armide, music by Jean-Baptiste Lully; text by Philippe Quinault, after Gersusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. First performed: Palais Royal, Paris, 15 Feb. 1686. Royal Opera, Versailles – 11 May 2012, presented by Opera Atelier (Toronto) Cast: Peggy Kriha Dye (Armide), Colin Ainsworth (Renaud/Amant fortunée), João Fernandes (Hidraot), Meghan Lindsay (Sidonie/Nymphe), Carla Huhtanen (Phénice/Lucinde), Olivier Laquerre (Artémidore/Ubalde), Aaron Ferguson (Chevalier Danois), Curtis Sullivan (La Haîne), Vasil Garvanliev (Aronte).…
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