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Reviews, Stage Reviews

Buxton International Festival 2024 Review: The Boatswain’s Mate

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(Photo: Genevieve Girling) Born into an upper middle-class family in 1858, Ethyl Smyth went on to fashion a successful career as a composer, which was certainly no easy feat given the many obstacles facing women wishing to pursue almost any career in Victorian England; even her own father opposed her choice. Yet, she was able to push through the many {…}

News

Tête à Tête Expands its Reach to London, Newcastle, Penzance, & North Shields

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Tête à Tête announces its expansion to create opportunities to empower emerging local talents this spring and summer. The company will hold workshops with local opera makers, Tête à Tête singers, and instrumentalists from the Royal Northern Sinfonia as a first step in developing native new opera in the North East. The workshop is held in Newcastle on May 14 {…}

Special Features

In Tribute to Her: An Exploration of Kaija Saariaho’s Operas

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(Photo Copyright: Priska Ketterer Luzern) Known as a luminary and artistic visionary in the acoustically-focused style of “spectralism,” a creative approach towards synthesizing technological processing and the human voice, along with her profound interest in culture, philosophy, and literature, Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023) is a musical icon. Pushing the limits of what music could do and achieve as an {…}