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...For Sapani’s Lear, the division of his kingdom is a demonstration of his power, carving up a country to suit his whim....
...Hushed sections for the two soloists, Mary Bevan and Roderick Williams, and chorale incantations offer intermittent balm, but Fiat Lux leaves a lingering feeling that it is overweighted towards showing off...
...is part of why many of the true greats — Beethoven, Austen, McCartney, Shakespeare, Davis — are in fact underrated, because no one likes to admit that they have only just discovered Kind of Blue or King Lear...
...For Roderick Williams, baritone of inimitable good sense and evident sangfroid, the production of Gerald Barry’s opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2002 comes top of the...
...The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...As the seven figures luring Aschenbach to his death, Roderick Williams might project more strongly, but he makes each of his roles vividly distinctive, flamboyant as the Leader of the Players, wryly amusing...
...July 9 to August 17; further information and tickets here ‘King Lear’, Fairfax Studio (Arts Centre Melbourne) Robert Menzies (who also appears in the above-mentioned drama Seventeen) plays Lear in Peter...
...This single disc offers an hour of the music in a suite made by Hans Sørensen, focusing exclusively on Cathy and Heathcliff, well sung by Keri Fuge and Roderick Williams....
...A bonus comes in the form of two new pieces, commissioned from James MacMillan and Roderick Williams, tributes in the Tudor manner to Tom and Will. ★★★★☆ ‘Tom and Will’ is released by Signum Classics...
...Williams, basking in the regal glow of his appearance at the coronation....
...In this performance, soprano Lucy Crowe and baritone Roderick Williams are the excellent soloists and Mark Elder conducts the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra....
...And then there is the looming presence of William Shakespeare....
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...There’s more than a hint of Tennessee Williams in Cleage’s story of gentleman callers, booze-fuelled hopes, bitter regrets and fading beauty....
...“I wrote a chapter on King Lear, and he said, ‘All that stuff at the front is very interesting but you’re basically just showing off....
...Jameson was paired with Roderick Williams, and in the video they sing together, Williams in operatic flow, Jameson with power and purpose....
..., William Shakespeare’s best play....
...Soprano soloist Lucy Crowe floated ineffably angelic top notes and baritone Roderick Williams touched the heart with his solo from Milton....
...Roderick Williams sang the Schubert with impeccable clarity, but we really needed the texts for the choral settings to get full value from Wallen’s tantalisingly intriguing parallel numbers....
...Are contemporary playwrights crafting their own versions of King Lear? Sonia Friedman thinks so....
...(Smithard had recently shot Hopkins in King Lear, a play with which The Father has thematic parallels, but Zeller says this was “almost coincidence”.)...
...A few months ago I came across an engaging piece in the pages of a literary journal, an exhortation to rediscover William Godwin’s 1794 novel Caleb Williams....
...Three of the composers are from the UK — Ken Burton, Roderick Williams and Smith himself — and three from the US — Melissa Dunphy, Jocelyn Hagen and Taylor Scott Davis....
...During the Californian gold rush, there are stories of miners thronging improvised theatres to see Richard III and King Lear, and touring companies at every corner of the frontier....
...British sitcom Upstart Crow reimagines The Bard as the ordinary bloke he may have been, with a script that’s slightly more accessible than King Lear....
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