John Aylward’s opera film “Oblivion” has won the Best Musical Film award at Cannes World Film Festival. Aylward, a Boston composer and librettist, had intended his work for the live stage. But Covid intervened and he took up a film adaptation.
The opera is scored for four voices with viola, cello, double bass, electric guitar, and electronics.
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Opera North has advertised places on its less than coveted training programme: Applications are now open for next year’s Female and Non-Binary Conductor Traineeship. Spread the word! This intensive annual 10-week scheme was launched in […]
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The singer, 65, has been named Festival Director of the 2025 Cincinnati May Festival. ‘I’m honored,’ she says. ‘Beyond music’s power to express the most profound ideas and feelings, we are learning more every day […]
