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Opera Awards Foundation Announces 19 Bursary Recipients for 2022

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The Opera Awards Foundation has announced the 2022 bursary recipients. The awards, which aim to help young artists with their career development will be given to 19 recipients this year. Artists will receive help with their living and travel cost, course fees, promotional material, and professional coaching sessions. This year’s winners include soprano Sarah Ampil, writer Laura Attridge, mezzo-soprano Megan {…}

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Buxton International Festival Announces 2022 Slate

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(Credit: Buxton International Festival official website) The Buxton International Festival in the United Kingdom has announced its 2022 slate, comprising of five operas, an oratorio, a musical, a brand-new jazz program, a books program, and a classical music series. Here is a look at the opera and vocal performances: Operas Adrian Kelly conducts the Northern Chamber Orchestra in Jacopo Spirei’s {…}

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English Touring Opera 2020 Review: Così fan tutte

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(Image Source: Official website) The great critic Edward Said saw Mozart and Da Ponte’s “Così fan tutte” as a work of irreconcilable contradictions: astonishingly tender in its explorations of longing, fear, and regret, yet also strangely cold and unredeemed; a world of libertinage and manipulation that burns forward without any clear moral purpose. The frivolity of its scenario is powerfully {…}