Clive Peacock – Seen and Heard International

Nevill Holt’s Don Giovanni embraces folk beliefs in a personification of lust

14/09/202121/08/2021 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Nevill Holt Opera 2021 [2] – Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Shadwell Ensemble / Finnegan Downie Dear (conductor). Nevill Holt, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, 19.8.2021. (CP)

Dingle Yandell (Commendatore) (c) Lloyd Winters

Nevill Holt’s La traviata – an astonishing achievement, full of emerging talent

14/09/202107/08/2021 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Nevill Holt Opera 2021 [1] – Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, chorus and Manchester Camerata / Nicholas Chalmers (conductor). Nevill Holt, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, 5.8.2021. (CP)

Susana Gaspar (Violetta) & Luis Gomes (Alfredo) (c) Lloyd Winters

Longborough’s emerging artists and youth chorus fashion a Cunning spirits-lifting close to the season

14/09/202131/07/2021 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2021 [3] – Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Longborough Youth Chorus, Longborough Festival Orchestra / Justin Brown (conductor). The Big Top, Longborough, Gloucestershire, 29.7.2021. (CP)

Julieth Lozano (Vixen) & Longborough Youth Chorus (c) Matthew Williams-Ellis

Gluck’s Paris and Helen is another hidden gem Bampton Classical Opera has unearthed

14/09/202127/07/2021 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Gluck, Paris and Helen (Parida ed Elena): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Thomas Blunt (conductor). The Deanery Garden, Bampton, 23.7.2021 (CP)

Ella Taylor (l Paris) and Lucy Anderson (r Helen) (c) Jeremy Gray.

Longborough’s Big Top Così fan tutte just about survives the cuts and the re-orchestration

21/08/202130/06/2021 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2021 [2] – Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists and the Barefoot Band / Lesley Anne Sammons (conductor). Big Top, Longborough Festival Opera, Gloucestershire, 26.6.2021. (CP)

Idunnu Münch (Dorabella), William Morgan (Ferrando) & John Molloy (Alfonso)
(c) Matthew Williams-Ellis

Christoph Prégardien and Emerging Artists farewell recital celebrates success of Oxford Lieder Festival 2020

29/12/202019/10/2020 by AUTHOR

United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [4] – Beethoven, Schubert: Christoph Prégardien (tenor) and Michael Gees (piano); Harriet Burns (soprano) and Ian Tindale (piano). 17.10.2020 performance from Holywell Music Room, Oxford, reviewed as a live stream. (CP)

Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & Michael Gees (pianist) (c) Hermann und Clärchen Baus

Rise Up! National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain excels in Warwick in interpreting protest struggles

24/02/202006/01/2020 by AUTHOR

United Kingdom Hanns Eisler, Britten, Shostakovich: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / Jaime Martín (conductor) Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, 4.1.2020. (CP)

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain © Jason Alden

Thomas Oliemans’s brilliance lifts The Day of the Dead at the Oxford Lieder Festival

04/11/201918/10/2019 by AUTHOR

United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [1] – Tippett, Finzi, Schubert, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Fauré: Soloists invited by Sholto Kynoch (artistic director). Holywell Cemetery & Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 15.10 2019. (CP)

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