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.... ★★★☆☆ To July 18, roh.org.uk Another hard-hitting opera about a woman abandoned by a faithless man is back on stage at English National Opera....
...McCreesh lays out much of the choral music with amplitude and captures a very English feeling of sanctity in this wide-ranging score, which brings Anglican chant and anthem into a fruitful embrace with Wagnerian...
.... ★★★★★ barbican.org.uk A week after the debacle of its production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, English Touring Opera is soldiering on....
...English music is to the fore in Pappano’s plans next season, but for this latest concert, as chief conductor designate, he had other priorities....
.... ★★★★☆ barbican.org.uk As spring approaches, English Touring Opera is gearing up to go round the country, visiting 15 further venues from Norwich to Bath through to the end of May....
...As English National Opera gets down to its spring season, a cloud of unresolved problems continues to hang over the company....
...Denmark’s tax authority accused trader Sanjay Shah’s hedge fund of masterminding a “meticulously pre-planned” fraud on Monday, at the opening of a trial described by an English judge as one of the most complex...
...It is to the credit of conductor John Nelson and the English Concert that they plough their own furrow with a profitable outcome....
...Recently, Arts Council England significantly reduced its funding for WNO’s touring to English cities. How short-sighted that move seems now. ★★★★★ Touring to May 11, wno.org.uk...
...It is an irony now to find the chief loser, English National Opera, and the main winner, English Touring Opera, opening shows within a few days of each other....
...It brings together complementary works for piano trio by four women composers — three French, one English — from around the turn of the last century....
...His stage works include some of the music for The Siege of Rhodes, which lays claim to being the first English opera, and a rich legacy of instrumental music, most notably his consort music for viols....
...“Stubb’s ability to communicate in English, both to the media and also decision makers, should be an asset....
...If Arts Council England’s shock grant-cutting edict last autumn had been put fully into effect, English National Opera would have had to abandon its 2023-24 season and turn to scrabbling around for some...
...But Richard Asquith, founder of VAT compliance company VATCalc, said he believed fees would only have to go up by about 15 per cent on average because schools would be able to claim back some of their capital...
...This time round, the opera is sung in a genial, rhyming English translation by Kelley Rourke, but only Darren Jeffery’s Father and the ebullient Witch of Rosie Aldridge (the role is no longer presented as...
...Mark Nicholas, an English cricket commentator, rates Procter as one of the eight greatest post-second world war all-rounders, alongside Keith Miller, Garfield Sobers, Richard Hadlee, Imran Khan, Ian Botham...
...Chevalier and Wood make a very good case for ENO’s policy of singing opera in English. The performance was conducted with an impressive grip on Verdi’s style by Richard Farnes....
...One beneficiary of the shift is the English Theatre, the largest English-speaking theatre in continental Europe, which uses a stage in the basement of the Gallileo building and had faced the risk of eviction...
...The author Richard Adams once wrote that he “hated” which song — written for the film version of one of his books?...
...There is something ironic in presenting an exhibition of Richard Rogers’s drawings at the Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery at Château La Coste — because drawing was not Rogers’s strong suit....
...If you want a modern country house, I’d suggest The Find, designed by my architect friend Richard Found....
...(The eerily prescient and more digestible Day of the Oprichnik made its English-language debut in 2011.) Others snubbed the task....
...Themes heard on unison strings and expansive brass chorales suggest a broad, open landscape reminiscent of the pastoral pictures of nostalgic English composers or the Appalachian vistas of Aaron Copland....
...Old English bones going soft under cold dark earth.”...
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