Sheku Kanneh-Mason is mesmerizing in his Cleveland debut

United StatesUnited States Various: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Cleveland Orchestra / Jakub Hrůša (conductor). The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, Ohio, 4.11.2021. (MSJ)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Jakub Hrůša (conductor) and the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni

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Opera Holland Park’s ‘Pay What you Feel’ screenings of William Walton’s The Bear

Opera Holland Park releases a new online production of William Walton’s The Bear

‘If there’s going to be equality between the sexes, then let us have it!’

Richard Burkhard (Smirnov), Clare Presland (Popova), John Savournin (Luka) and John Andrews (conductor) in The Bear © Laima Arlauskaite

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An angry creditor, a reclusive widow, a loyal servant and a pair of pistols are the ingredients for an unlikely romance in William Walton’s adaptation of Chekhov’s comedy.

Filmed and recorded live on location in Stone House over two days in April 2021, Walton’s witty one-act opera reunites the cast and creative team of Opera Holland Park’s acclaimed 2019 production of Il segreto di Susanna.

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