Relishing the challenge: mezzo-soprano Samantha Price on singing her first Dido in Purcell’s opera on tour with English Touring Opera
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas in rehearsal – Michael Lafferty (Aeneas), Samantha Price (Dido) & ensemble – English Touring Opera (Photo: Craig Fuller) As part of English Touring Opera‘s (ETO) Autumn season they are performing Purcell’s […]
Sturm und Drang 4: The Mozartists return
The Mozartist’s projected seven-volume series of works from the “Sturm und Drang” period (early 1760s-late 1770s) is exemplified by this disc. The fire and high emotion of the cover painting says it all, Fire on […]
An exploration of how songs and music can have the unique ability to bring humans and cultures closer together: Sinfonia Cymru’s Songs We Carry
Songs We Carry – Patrick Rimes, Ana Silvera, Saied Silbak – Sinfonia Cymru Ladino song, Arabic music and Welsh folksong: Songs We Carry, Sinfonia Cymru’s latest cross-cultural project brings together singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ana Silvera, composer, […]
%20(c)%20Chris%20Christodoulou.jpg?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "Not quite the sum of its parts: starry casting with Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu & Bryn Terfel fails to lift Oxford International Opera's debut with Puccini's Tosca")
Not quite the sum of its parts: starry casting with Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu & Bryn Terfel fails to lift Oxford International Opera’s debut with Puccini’s Tosca
Puccini: Tosca (Act Three) – Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu – Oxford International Opera (Photo: Chris Christodoulou) Puccini: Tosca; Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu, Bryn Terfel, director: P Burton-Morgan, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Marios Papadopoulos; Oxford International […]
Beethoven’s Ghost
The Rautio Piano Trio has previously impressed on the Resonus label: we covered two of the three trios of Beethoven’s Op. 1 on this disc, with the balance of Op. 1 (Op. 1/3), and the […]
%20(c)%20Chris%20Christodoulou.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Not quite the sum of its parts: starry casting with Carmen Giannattasio, Saimir Pirgu & Bryn Terfel fails to lift Oxford International Opera's debut with Puccini's Tosca")
