Malvern – Seen and Heard International

Ian Venables’ masterly and moving Requiem performed with conviction at the Elgar Festival

02/06/2023 by John Quinn

United Kingdom Elgar Festival 2023 – Still, Elgar, Michael Berkeley, Venables: Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir, St Cecilia Singers, Jonathan Hope (organ), English Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Woods and Stephen Shellard (conductors). Great Malvern Priory, Malvern, 1.6.2023. (JQ)

Love and Treachery with Plenty of Laughs in Cavalli’s Jason

28/10/201327/10/2013 by Stan

United Kingdom Cavalli, Jason: English Touring Opera and the Old Street Band / Joseph McHardy (conductor), Festival Theatre, Malvern, 26.10.2013. (RJ)

Catrine Kirkman (Isiphile), Clint van der Linde (Jason), Michal Czerniawski (Delfa), Hannah Pedley (Medea), John-Colyn Gyeantey (Egeus), Peter Aisher (Demus), Piotr Lempa (Orestes), Andrew Slater (Hercules), English Touring Opera // Cavalli, Jason (Giasone). Photo: Richard Hubert Smith

Fun and Intrigue in ETO’s Agrippina

28/10/201326/10/2013 by Stan

United Kingdom Handel: Agrippina: English Touring Opera, Old Street Band / Jonathan Peter Kenny (conductor), Festival Theatre, Malvern, 24.10.2013. (RJ)

Agrippina - Handel - English Touring Opera - 8th October 2013 Agrippina - Gillian Webster Claudius - Andrew Slater Ottone - Clint van der Linde Nero - Jake Arditti Lesbo - Luke D Williams Pallante - Nicholas Merryweather Poppea - Paula Sides Narciso - Ru — Paula Sides (Poppea), Clint van der Linde (Ottone), Nicholas Merryweather (Pallante), Andrew Slater (Claudio), Russell Harcourt (Narciso [standing]), Luke D Williams (Lesbo [seated]), Gillian Webster (Agrippina), Jake Arditti (Nerone), English Touring Handel, Agrippina. Photo: Robert Workman

Impressive Venables Première Marks 110 Years of Music in Malvern

07/05/201303/05/2013 by Stan

United Kingdom Haydn, Barber, Venables, Elgar: Roderick Williams (baritone), Carducci String Quartet, Tom Poster (piano). Forum Theatre, Malvern, 2.5.2013 (JQ)