Grange Park Opera are to put on their first (staged) Wagner production - Tristan und Isolde - at this summers festival.
Conductor - Stephen Barlow
Director & Designer - David Fielding
Lighting Design: - Wolfgang Goebbel
King Mark of Cornwall: Clive Bayley
Tristan: Richard Berkeley-Steele
Isolde: Alwyn Mellor
Brangäne: Sara Fulgoni
Kurwenal: Stephen Gadd
Melot: Andrew Rees
A shepherd/a sailor: Richard Roberts
The English Chamber Orchestra
Stephen Fry looks forward to the 2011 Opera Festival at The Grange and discusses Tristan und Isolde, during last years festival.
Midday mélodies: Canada meets France
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Tuesday’s concert in the RBA was given by students from the France-Canada
Academy of Vocal Arts currently being hosted by the UoT Faculty of Music.
The mus...
Puccini’s Ice Princess Turns 100th at FGO
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The Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, long celebrated as an incandescent
Liu, now steps into the glacial terrain of Turandot opposite her real-life
Calaf, ...
An old and very fragrant red rose
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This very old red rose was transplanted into my garden to save it from a
renovators wrecking ball a couple of years ago when the house it was
planted nex...
Imprints of Man: Death Metal for piano
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New York metal trio Imperial Triumphant is my best discovery of 2025
(better late than never to a party). Now there’s a new record—not with new
songs, but ...
NY Wagner Society Announces Auditions for Grants
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The Wagner Society of New York has, for many years, awarded grants to young
singers whose gifts and talents indicate that they may have a future in the
Wag...
The Future
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Today is Nostradomus day.These are my predictions for the coming year (I
hoope I'm wrong)> First, Trump will begin the roundup and deportaton anyone
he ded...
Lahti
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I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius
Festival. I've been wanting to visit since I encountered Osmo Vänskä's
revelatory B...
Royal Opera House announces Ring Cycles for 2018!
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Very excited by this announcement. Must start saving now…. ADVANCE
ANNOUNCEMENT Four full cycles performed September–November 2018 The 2018/19
Season open...