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A Q&A WITH SOPRANO LISETTE OROPESA

02/03/202318/02/2018 by Jim Pritchard

A highlight of this season for soprano Lisette Oropesa was her Royal Opera debut as Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) at Covent Garden. She will soon be making a role debut as Euridice in the French version of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Los Angeles Opera, in a new production opening on the 10 March, directed and choreographed by John Neumeier, and conducted by James Conlon. In advance of these performances in Los Angeles, Lisette Oropesa answers Seen and Heard International’s questions about this current role, as well as, looking back on her life and her career.

THE PIANIST VALENTINA LISITSA IN CONVERSATION WITH GREGOR TASSIE

02/03/202316/12/2017 by AUTHOR

AN INTERVIEW WITH VALENTINA LISITSA

Lisitsa_Valentina_pc_Sam Jones_2_300 — Valentina Lisitsa (c) Sam Jones

The Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa has achieved the accolade of becoming the world’s most popular classical artist since her first YouTube recital in 2007. By leading the way to finding new audiences with sensational success, Lisitsa has gained a staggering 95 million views and almost 200,000 subscribers on YouTube.

R.I.P. IN MEMORIAM – DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY (1962-2017)

06/08/202029/11/2017 by AUTHOR

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017) dies at 55

Seen and Heard-International is saddened to have heard of the death – after a courageous fight against cancer – of the wonderful Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, at much-too-early age of 55.

2422-hvorostovsky_1 — Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962-2017)

Ann Murray’s Masterclass at the V&A Part of Opera: Passion, Power and Politics

21/01/202018/11/2017 by Jack Buckley

A Great Tradition Lives: Ann Murray’s Masterclass at the V&A (Royal College of Music)

Like all the world’s greatest teachers, Gioacchino Rossini was much more focused on what he could get out of a pupil than what he could put in. But the maestro was also a composer, in my spare time, he used to quip. So it was not unknown for him to to put something into the pupil too.

Twelve Years of Celebrating Malcolm Arnold in Northampton

21/01/202018/10/2017 by Rob Barnett

The 12th Malcolm Arnold Festival. Royal and Derngate and St Matthew’s Church, Northampton, 14-15.10.2017 (RBa)

What is the Critic’s Job? A Review of A. O. Scott’s Recent Book

02/03/202316/10/2017 by Jack Buckley

INSIGHTFUL SENSE

Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth by A. O. Scott. Penguin, 291pp (available from Amazon)

English Music Festival in Yorkshire Lifts the Lid Off an English Treasury

21/01/202010/10/2017 by Rob Barnett

United Kingdom Stanford, Ireland, Holst, Moeran, Alwyn, Delius, Howells, Milford, Vaughan Williams, W. S. Lloyd Webber, Cyril Scott, Fogg, Brian, Phibbs, Pantcheff, Bach, Butterworth, Orr, Somervell, Finzi, Armstrong Gibbs: Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin), Joseph Spooner (cello), Duncan Honeybourne (piano, organ), Rebeca Omordia (piano), Christopher Foster (bass), Kathryn Moseley (piano). The English Music Festival. St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth, Leyburn, Yorkshire, 6-8.10.2017. (RBa)

JIŘÍ BĔLOHLÁVEK (1946-2017) AND THE CZECH CONDUCTING LEGACY

09/03/201921/09/2017 by Geoffrey Newman

Jiří Bělohlávek and the Czech Conducting Legacy

One mourns the recent passing of Czech conductor Jiří Bělohlávek (24 February 1946 – 31 May 2017) not only because he was a wonderfully discerning musician, but also because he perpetuated a conducting legacy that linked back to the great Czech composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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