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8 Jul
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 7:30pm
Odyssey Opera's 3rd Annual Opera Festival June 3-12
Boston University Theatre
264 Huntington Avenue
United States
Tickets: $30 and Up
Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera presents WHEN IN ROME, its third annual opera festival comprising fully staged productions of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Ezio and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Lucio Silla from June 3-12 at the Boston University Theatre. Ezio and Lucio Silla are both composed in the grand tradition of opera seria, with plots revolving around the timeless themes of honor, betrayal, and passion revealed in soul-baring arias. Both operas take place in Ancient Rome and are based on historical generals or dictators. Led by conductor Gil Rose, the Odyssey Opera Orchestra is joined by some of the nation’s most extraordinary opera singers, including mezzo- sopranos Brenda Patterson and Jennifer Rivera, and countertenors Michael Maniaci and David Trudgen.
Wolfgang Mozart : Lucio Silla
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10 Jul
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Friday, June 10, 2016 at 7:30pm
Odyssey Opera's 3rd Annual Opera Festival June 3-12
Boston University Theatre
264 Huntington Avenue
United States
Tickets: $30 and Up
Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera presents WHEN IN ROME, its third annual opera festival comprising fully staged productions of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Ezio and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Lucio Silla from June 3-12 at the Boston University Theatre. Ezio and Lucio Silla are both composed in the grand tradition of opera seria, with plots revolving around the timeless themes of honor, betrayal, and passion revealed in soul-baring arias. Both operas take place in Ancient Rome and are based on historical generals or dictators. Led by conductor Gil Rose, the Odyssey Opera Orchestra is joined by some of the nation’s most extraordinary opera singers, including mezzo- sopranos Brenda Patterson and Jennifer Rivera, and countertenors Michael Maniaci and David Trudgen.
Wolfgang Mozart : Lucio Silla
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11 Jul
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11 Jul
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Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 4pm
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1728 687110
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk
enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Ilan Volkov conductor
Inspired by Darwin’s The Origin of Species, Julian Anderson’s The Comedy of Change is a seven-movement exploration of changes, contrasts and development, while Benedict Mason’s Nodding Trilliums and Curve-Lined Angles is a joyous, extravagant quadruple percussion concerto. Mason’s new piece is very much an unknown quantity and, if recent pieces are a guide, surprises are to be expected.
‘Breathtaking… the new piece by Benedict Mason overturned all preconceptions of what a new piece should be’ The Telegraph
Bendict Mason : Nodding Trilliums and Curve-Lined Angles
Bendict Mason : New Work
Julian Anderson : The Comedy of Change
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12 Jul
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Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 3:00pm
Odyssey Opera's 3rd Annual Opera Festival June 3-12e
Boston University Theatre
264 Huntington Avenue
United States
Tickets: $30 and Up
Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera presents WHEN IN ROME, its third annual opera festival comprising fully staged productions of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Ezio and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Lucio Silla from June 3-12 at the Boston University Theatre. Ezio and Lucio Silla are both composed in the grand tradition of opera seria, with plots revolving around the timeless themes of honor, betrayal, and passion revealed in soul-baring arias. Both operas take place in Ancient Rome and are based on historical generals or dictators. Led by conductor Gil Rose, the Odyssey Opera Orchestra is joined by some of the nation’s most extraordinary opera singers, including mezzo- sopranos Brenda Patterson and Jennifer Rivera, and countertenors Michael Maniaci and David Trudgen.
Wolfgang Mozart : Lucio Silla
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15 Jul
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 7:00pm
Scott Wheeler Celebrates New CD at National Sawdust 6/15
National Sawdust
80 NORTH 6TH ST BROOKLYN, NY 11249
United States
(646) 779-8455
http://nationalsawdust.org
INFO@NATIONALSAWDUST.ORG
Tickets: $25
Donald Berman, piano
Krista River, soprano
Acclaimed as “one of the freshest American voices” (Fanfare), award-winning composer/conductor Scott Wheeler presents a varied and imaginative gallery of piano works in his new album Portraits & Tributes featuring pianist Donald Berman. Mostly written in a gently atonal idiom, often Wheeler draws on his experience as a pianist to create a unique and personal set of explorations of the sounds, textures and melodies of the piano, heard in contemporary terms. Sometimes sharply etched, lyrical and tender, the recording’s 27 musical portraits and tributes create a musical autobiography, not only of Wheeler’s musical thought, but of his life, including teachers, family members, lovers, fellow artists, and others. Complementing the new album is a video documentary by filmmaker Fern Lopez, as well as a June 15th CD release concert at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust.
Scott Wheeler : Portraits & Tributes for Piano
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17 Jul
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17 Jul
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Friday, June 17, 2016 at 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.
Musical Moments
St Mary's Church, Putney
High Street, Putney, London SW15 1SN
United Kingdom
http://www.parishofputney.co.uk/stmarys/
Tickets: Free (donations welcome)
Sharon Moloney, flute; Martin Jones, cello; Liz Sharma, saxophone; David Arditti, Zillah Myers, Mark Pampel, Martin Jones and Derek Foster, pianists.
New music in a range of styles from traditional to contemporary by London-based composers listed and Zillah Myers and Liz Sharma. Promoted by London Composers Forum
Cedric Peachey : A Cocktail Pas de Deux
Mark Pampel : Improvisation
Martin Jones : Flute Sonata
Martin Jones : Something Missing
Peter Terry : Burwood
David Arditti : Marta: a Grand Concert Rag
Derek Foster : Variations on a Swedish Nursery Tune
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17 Jul
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Friday, June 17, 2016 at 7.30pm
Mogens Christensen World Premiere
St Magnus Festival
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall
United Kingdom
Randers Kammerorkester
David Riddell Conductor
Brit-Tone Müllertz Soprano
The Danish Sinfonietta (Randers Kammerorkester) was established in 1945 and is Denmark’s only full-time chamber orchestra. Under their Scottish conductor, David Riddell, they have given performances all over the world and, after a highly successful appearance at the 2013 Festival we are delighted to welcome them back.
Gustav Helsted : Decet Op.18
Mogens Christensen : New work
Richard Wagner : Wesendonck Lieder
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19 Jul
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19 Jul
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Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 7pm
LSO Soundhub Showcase
LSO St Luke's, London
161 Old Street London EC1V 9NG
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes/
admin@lso.co.uk
Chamber ensembles from the LSO
LSO Soundhub provides a flexible environment where composers can explore, collaborate and experiment, pushing their music in unexpected directions. These Showcases give an opportunity to hear what they’ve been working on in the last year.
This concert will feature music by Phase I composers Yasmeen Ahmed, Ben Gaunt, Oliver Leith and Lee Westwood, performed by chamber ensembles from the LSO.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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20 Jul
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Monday, June 20, 2016 at 7pm
Maxwell Davies World Premiere
St Magnus Festival
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall
United Kingdom
MUSICIANS FROM ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE OF SCOTLAND
WITH SANDAY COMMUNITY SCHOOL
Musicians from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland join pupils from Sanday Community School and their string instructors in the world première of music specially written to celebrate the wedding of Wendy Bowen, the school's head teacher.
The rest of the concert will include string music played by students from the RCS.
Glenys Hughes Conductor
Maxwell Davies Wendy’s Wedding Music *World Premiere*
and a selection of string music from the RCS Performers
Peter Maxwell Davies : Wendy’s Wedding Music
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20 Jul
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Monday, June 20, 2016 at 8.30pm
The Transmigration of Morton F.
Holland Festival
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was a leading American composer, who is regarded as one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. Feldman studied composition with Schönberg disciple Wallingford Riegger and former Webern student Stefan Wolpe; but the decisive encounter in his musical life was with John Cage, who encouraged him to break away from old compositional models, such as traditional harmony and serial techniques.
Feldman is often associated with the experimental New York School, along with Cage, Christian Wolff and Earle Brown. In the 1950’s Feldman experimented with graphic notation and freedoms for the performers. From the 1970’s he used conventional notation. Through Cage, Feldman met various other prominent figures from the New York art scene, including visual artists Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston and Robert Rauschenberg, the composers Henry Cowell, Virgil Thomson and George Antheil and the writer Frank O’Hara. Feldman was especially inspired by the works of the abstract-expressionist painters. He expressed his indebtedness with titles such as Rothko Chapel (1971) and For Frank O’Hara (1973). In 1977 he wrote the opera Neither, set to a text by Samuel Beckett. Until 1973 Feldman worked as a composer as well as holding a full time job in his family’s textile business. That year he started lecturing in composition at the State University of New York in Buffalo, a position he held until his death. Especially his later chamber music, from 1977, tends to be soft, slow and intimate. These works are often extremely long. For Philip Guston (1984), for instance, is 4 hours long; his Second String Quartet (1983) measures 6 hours. Shortly after his marriage to the Canadian composer Barbara Monk, Feldman died of pancreatic cancer.
Sjaron Minailo is no stranger to Morton Feldman's work. With his Studio Minailo company, he created Rothko Chapel, a theatrical music video in which he used Feldman's eponymous composition while adding associated imagery inspired by Mark Rothko's paintings. Last year, Minailo directed Feldman's Three Voices for Joan La Barbara at Brussels’ De Munt opera house, in which young singers were coached by La Barbara herself. Minailo specialises in creating genre-crossing music theatre, his many collaborators including the Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, the Slagwerk Den Haag percussion ensemble, Rotterdam’s Kunsthal and Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum.
Composer, singer and performer Anat Spiegel is one of Minailo's long-term collaborators and, like Minailo, specialises in interdisciplinary performing arts. Together, they staged their opera Medúlla at De Munt in 2015. Based on singer Björk's eponymous concept album, the performance featured a cast of four opera singers, a one hundred strong children's choir, a throat singer and live electronics. In 2012 they collaborated on their internet opera Soul Seek. Spiegel's works have been performed in Europe, the United States, Israel and Japan.
Joan La Barbara is famous for her virtuoso vocal skills and her groundbreaking performances within contemporary American music. Hailed as 'the Houdini of New Music', she has developed various experimental vocal techniques. Morton Feldman dedicated his monumental work Three Voices for Joan La Barbara to her. Other collaborators include composers John Cage and Philip Glass as well as choreographer Merce Cunningham. La Barbara appeared at the 2014 Holland Festival in filmmaker Matthew Barney's River of Fundament. She performed a solo concert at the 2012 edition and featured at the 2007 festival in Robert Ashley's opera Celestial Excursions.
Anat Spiegel : Transmigration of Morton F
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22 Jul
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 7.30pm
Ryan Wigglesworth UK premiere
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1728 687110
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk
enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
BBCSSO
Carolin Widmann violin
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor
Debussy’s glittering ‘symphonic sketches’, their fleeting swell and ebb, sunrise and storm here seem inexorably tied to a French lineage of voluptuous orchestral colour and musical portraiture of the natural world.
Wigglesworth’s reworking of his Aldeburgh commission for the Britten Centenary takes inspiration from the English Baroque, interspersing transcriptions of incidental music from Purcell’s forerunner Matthew Locke with his own shadowy distorted ‘doubles’. Shadows and echoes also abound in Rebecca Saunders’ arresting concerto, her trembling, hyperactive protagonist vividly, shockingly interrupted by torrents of orchestral sound before subsiding to a contemplative haunting stasis.
Hector Berlioz : Marche Troyenne
Hector Berlioz : Royal Hunt and Storm
Rebecca Saunders : Still
Ryan Wigglesworth : Locke’s Theatre
Claude Debussy : La Mer
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23 Jul
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Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 11am
Benedict Mason’s Meld
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1728 687110
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk
enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
One of the Featured Composers at Aldeburgh Festival 2016, Benedict Mason has written a series of pieces, Music for Concert Halls, for performance in specific concert venues (his most recent work in the series, Horns Strings and Harmony, will be given its second performance by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at the Aldeburgh Festival on 11 June).
Meld, his commission for Aurora Orchestra and Chantage at the 2014 BBC Proms, is one of the most striking pieces ever to have been written for the Royal Albert Hall – ‘mysterious, mad and ecstatic… an avant-garde happening that left one speechless with its epic zaniness’, wrote The Times in its 5-star review of the event.
Based on an original idea by director of photography Andreas Schimanski and captured by multiple cameras positioned around the Royal Albert Hall, the film is a cinematic response to the unique geography of this non-proscenium piece. With cameras attached to individual performers as they move throughout the space, the film turns the traditional performance model on its head, placing the audience at the centre of the experience.
Bendict Mason : Meld
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23 Jul
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23 Jul
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Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 7.30-9.30pm
Hebrides Ensemble & Max
St Magnus Cathedral
Kirkwall, Orkney
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10, £20 & £25 (Conc. £8, £15 & £19)
The Hebrides Ensemble
The Hebrides Ensemble celebrates its 25th anniversary with a programme that reflects a concert in the first St Magnus Festival given by the Fires of London 40 years ago. This is also a tribute concert to a significant founder of the festival, Peter Maxwell Davies and, adding to the 40 festival premières is a new work from John Gourlay, an alumnus of the St Magnus Composers' Course.
John Gourlay : Midsummer Sunrise
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25 Jul
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Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 7.30pm
Fidelio Trio
Gregynog Festival
Gregynog Hall (and other venues), Tregynon, Newtown, Powys SY16 3PN, UK
United Kingdom
01686 207100
http://gregynogfestival.org/
post@gregynogfestival.org
Darragh Morgan, violin
Adi Tal, cello
Mary Dullea, piano
with Sinéad Morrissey, poet
E J MOERAN : Piano Trio
Donnacha Dennehy : Bulb
Piers Hellawell : New Work
Sam Perkin : Fron-goch
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25 Jul
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Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 3pm
Arditti Quartet, Aimard and Stefanovich
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1728 687110
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk
enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Arditti Quartet
Tamara Stefanovich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jonas Olsson piano
A chance to gain an extended insight into the three Featured Composers at this year’s Festival – Julian Anderson, Rebecca Saunders and Benedict Mason. While their music is so different that it’s easy to forget the instruments are the same – each has written pieces for string quartet and pieces for piano, giving us a fascinating opportunity to compare their approaches. One of the world’s leading contemporary music quartets, the Ardittis, join a group of outstanding pianists for a typically ambitious exploration.
Julian Anderson : New Work
Julian Anderson : String Quartet No.2
Rebecca Saunders : Crimson
Rebecca Saunders : Shadow
Rebecca Saunders : Fletch for string quartet
Bendict Mason : The Four Slopes of Twice Among Gliders of her Gravity for piano and tape
Bendict Mason : String Quartet No.3
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26 Jul
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Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 7pm
The Hogboon: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
LSO Discovery Choirs
London Symphony Chorus
Simon Halsey choral director
Guildhall School Musicians
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle’s LSO Discovery concert includes a brand new children’s opera, The Hogboon, by Peter Maxwell Davies and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, performed by young people alongside the LSO.
Story-telling is at the heart of this concert. Berlioz uses a gargantuan orchestra to depict his ‘Fantastical Symphony’ portraying a swirling ball, a cackling March to the Scaffold and dreams good and bad. Maxwell Davies bases his new opera on a local monster myth from his home in Orkney.
Rattle believes that classical music is for everyone, and has long been a leading advocate for living composers, and for music education and outreach to new audiences. He has specially devised this concert to incorporate the LSO Discovery children’s choirs, London Symphony Chorus, and students from Guildhall School, alongside members of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Suitable for children aged 10+
Peter Maxwell Davies : The Hogboon
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 19.00
Opera Makers
Milton Court - Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, EC2Y 9BH
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/miltoncourt
Opera Studies, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Instrumentalists, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
John Ramster director; Dominic Wheeler musical director
Performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall Opera Course, this term’s Scenes feature three exciting new works written by composers and librettists on the School’s MA in Opera Making & Writing programme. This innovative programme delivered in association with the Royal Opera House enables writers and composers to write specifically for the singers, and to develop the pieces with them.
The new operas will be performed with a small orchestral ensemble, and will be linked by scenes from existing opera repertoire performed with piano accompaniment.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19592
Rhiannon Randle : Door
Joe Steele : Watch Me
Charles Barker : Harbour
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30 Jul
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30 Jul
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Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 19.00
Opera Makers
Milton Court - Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, EC2Y 9BH
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/miltoncourt
Opera Studies, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Instrumentalists, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
John Ramster director; Dominic Wheeler musical director
Performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall Opera Course, this term’s Scenes feature three exciting new works written by composers and librettists on the School’s MA in Opera Making & Writing programme. This innovative programme delivered in association with the Royal Opera House enables writers and composers to write specifically for the singers, and to develop the pieces with them.
The new operas will be performed with a small orchestral ensemble, and will be linked by scenes from existing opera repertoire performed with piano accompaniment.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19592
Rhiannon Randle : Door
Charles Barker : Harbour
Joe Steele : Watch Me
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Friday, July 1, 2016 at
KALÎLA WA DIMNA
Festival d'Aix en Provence
United Kingdom
http://www.festival-aix.com/en
It is written that little drops sweat on the forehead
of the word,
And this word changes people's dreams in blue
ink spread on sheets.
It is written that the one who loves his homeland
will give some protecting warmth to his children.
Fady Jomar et Catherine Verlaguet, Kalîla wa Dimna, scene 9 (2016)
“Tell me the story of those two men whose friendship, shattered by a treacherous liar, was transformed into hostility and hatred”, said the King of India to the prince of philosophers responsible for teaching him to reign. Thus begins one of the chapters of this great classic of Arabic literature, The Book of Kalila and Dimna, written by Ibn al-Muqaffa' in the eighth century, based on an ancient collection of animal tales from far-away India. In a reworking of the fable of the Lion, whose friendship with the Ox is maligned by the ambitious Jackal, this world premiere opera by Moneim Adwan treads a fine line between the human and the animal, fable and tragedy, Arabic and French, Western form and Eastern music, to tell the story of idealism crushed by ambition. In a staging by Olivier Letellier, the Festival d’Aix will be introducing this opera form that showcases all the musicality of the Arabic language.
ON 1, 10 AND 17 JULY AT 5:00PM
ON 2, 6, 8, 12 AND 16 JULY AT 8:00PM
Moneim Adwan : KALÎLA WA DIMNA
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Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 19.00
Opera Makers
Milton Court - Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, EC2Y 9BH
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/miltoncourt
Opera Studies, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Instrumentalists, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
John Ramster director; Dominic Wheeler musical director
Performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall Opera Course, this term’s Scenes feature three exciting new works written by composers and librettists on the School’s MA in Opera Making & Writing programme. This innovative programme delivered in association with the Royal Opera House enables writers and composers to write specifically for the singers, and to develop the pieces with them.
The new operas will be performed with a small orchestral ensemble, and will be linked by scenes from existing opera repertoire performed with piano accompaniment.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19592
Rhiannon Randle : Door
Joe Steele : Watch Me
Charles Barker : Harbour
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4 Aug
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Monday, July 4, 2016 at 19.00
Opera Makers
Milton Court - Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, EC2Y 9BH
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/miltoncourt
Opera Studies, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Instrumentalists, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
John Ramster director; Dominic Wheeler musical director
Performed by singers and repetiteurs from the first year of the Guildhall Opera Course, this term’s Scenes feature three exciting new works written by composers and librettists on the School’s MA in Opera Making & Writing programme. This innovative programme delivered in association with the Royal Opera House enables writers and composers to write specifically for the singers, and to develop the pieces with them.
The new operas will be performed with a small orchestral ensemble, and will be linked by scenes from existing opera repertoire performed with piano accompaniment.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19592
Joe Steele : Watch Me
Charles Barker : Harbour
Rhiannon Randle : Door
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