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Thomas Adès, Brett Dean, Tansy Davies, Brian Irvine, Hannah Kendall, Ben Nobuto, John Rutter, Josephine Stephenson, & Dobrinka Tabakova Take Home Ivor Novello Awards

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((c) Hogan Media Shutterstock) The Ivors Academy revealed the winners of the Ivor Novello Awards at The Ivors Classical Awards. The 11 winners were announced during a ceremony hosted by BBC Radio 3’s Hannah Peel and Tom Service at the British Film Institute in London. Winners in opera and classical voice categories are Thomas Adès, Brett Dean, Tansy Davies, Brian {…}
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Q & A: Creators Brian Irvine & Netia Jones on their Opera ‘Least Like The Other’

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In July 2019, Irish National Opera premiered “Least Like The Other” at the Galway International Arts Festival to a raft of fabulous reviews.  The short opera, which lasts approximately 70 minutes, is an intensely disturbing work that explores the brutal and life-destroying system that led to Rose Kennedy having a lobotomy at the age of 23. She was born into {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Opera House / Irish National Opera 2023 Review: Least Like The Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy

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(Photo: INO, Kip Carroll) “Least Like The Other” continues the Royal Opera House’s partnership with Irish National Opera in Covent Garden’s Linbury Theatre, following last year’s “Bajazet.” This new work is centuries away from Vivaldi’s pasticcio and a world apart stylistically, but what binds them both is the unerring pursuit of bracing theatrical intensity. “Least Like The Other, Searching for {…}
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The Royal Opera to Present New Works in Digital ‘8bit’ Series

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On April 30, 2021, The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden will present “8bit,” a series of eight new commissioned works, featuring innovative contemporary artists. The series will be made up of six short films, one audio performance, and a web browser experiment, which will present well-known works in new ways, alongside the new, short works. First in the suggested sequence {…}
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The King’s Singers Bring ‘Summer School’ to Princeton University

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GRAMMY Award-winning a capella ensemble The King’s Singers announced the return of their “Summer School” program. The program will take place at Princeton University June 23-29. After a five-year hiatus due to the pandemic, “Summer School” returns to the U.S. for a second time, to offers coaching for individual and group singers from The King’s Singers and other guests. Throughout {…}
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The Ivors Classical Awards 2023 Releases Nominees

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Thirty-four composers have been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award as part of The Ivors Classical Awards 2023. Toby Young is nominated for best community and participation composition for his “It Takes a City.” Jasdeep Singh Degun and Tom Coult compete with Brian Irvine who hold two nominations in the best stage work category. Ben Nobuto, Omri Kochavi, and Naomi Pinnock are {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Opera House 2022-23 Review: Woman at Point Zero

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Photo: Camilla Greenwell/Royal Opera House 2023 The Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House has been home to some of the most incisive and bracing opera happening at Covent Garden in recent times. Work there has been self-consciously political, physical and experimental. Most notable is Laura Bowler’s “The Blue Woman,” directed by Katie Mitchell, Oliver Leith’s “Last Days,” and “Least {…}
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Irish National Opera to Present U.K. Premiere of ‘Least Like the Other,’ an Opera on the Rosemary Kennedy Tragedy

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The Irish National Opera is set to present the U.K. premiere of Brian Irvine and Netia Jones’ “Least Like the Other” on Jan. 15-19, 2023. The opera, which will take place at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre, explores the tragedy of Rosemary Kennedy, the sister of U.S. President J.F. Kennedy. She was starved of oxygen at birth and experienced {…}

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