Month: August 2018

A Superb Production at Glyndebourne of Barber’s Unjustly Neglected Vanessa

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2018 [3] – Barber, Vanessa:  Soloists, The Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Jakub Hrůša (conductor), Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Sussex, 6.8.2018. (RB)

Emma Bell (Vanessa) & Edgaras Montvidas (Anatol) in Vanessa (c) Tristram Kenton

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TENOR NICHOLAS PHAN IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTOPHER SALLON

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Holding the Key: Nicholas Phan talks to Christopher Sallon

Nicholas Phan 

‘Music is for everybody, but the artist, alone, holds the key’ declares Nicholas Phan, one of the USA’s most accomplished lyric tenors. In a blog recorded in 2010, some eight years before our July interview in Tanglewood, he stood calmly before the camera and provided an ‘insider’s’ glimpse, as he prepared for his Carnegie Hall debut recital with accompanist Myra Huang. With a maturity and self-assurance which belied his years – he was then just 31 years old – he spoke of the need to take risks and proceeded to provide a key to his programme of songs by Benjamin Britten. Phan’s performance that night, particularly his account of Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, and the song cycle Winter Words, a setting of Thomas Hardy poems, garnered rave reviews, as did his Winter Words CD, released soon thereafter.

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Thea Musgrave is Honoured During Richard Farnes’ Notable Proms Debut

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC PROM 33 – Musgrave and Brahms: Golda Schultz (soprano), Johan Reuter (baritone), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Richard Farnes (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 7.8.2018. (AS)

Golda Schultz (soprano) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus conducted by Richard Farnes (c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou
Golda Schultz (soprano), BBC SO & Richard Farnes (conductor) (c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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