Roxanna Panufnik, Gavin Bryars, & Errollyn Wallen Among 2024 Ivor Classical Award Winners

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(Photo credit: Hogan Media) The Ivors Academy revealed the 11 winners of the Ivor Novello Awards at The 2024 Ivors Classical Awards. Only winners in the opera and choral music categories are listed in this article. Roxanna Panufnik received her first Ivor Novello Award in recognition of her diverse and ever-growing body of work. Panufnik’s choral compositions and operas include {…}

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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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LA Phil Presents U.S. Premiere ‘Last Days’

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(Photo credit: Alastair Muir) The Los Angeles Philharmonic will present the U.S. Premiere of “Last Days,” Oliver Leith and Matt Copson’s opera based on Gus van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name. The opera, which premiered at the Royal Opera House in 2022, follows a fictional account based on the death of Kurt Cobain. Agathe Rousselle plays Blake, who {…}

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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 {…}

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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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Best of 2019 – OperaWire’s Staff on the Best Performances of the Year

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(Credit: Marty Sohl/Karen Almond-Metropolitan Opera/Ken Howard-Santa Fe Opera/ Gianfranco Rota-Donizetti Opera) We hope that the end of your 2019 is a prosperous one and that the start of 2020 is even better. As we look forward to the next calendar year, we are taking some time to reflect on the opera performances that defined 2019 for many of us. As {…}

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Q & A: Naomi Louisa O’Connell On Her Very Individual Career Path And On Playing Rosemary Kennedy

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(Photo: Lauren Dersberg) Irish National Opera’s recent visit to the Galway International Arts Festival with its production of Brian Irvine’s new opera “Least Like the Other: Searching for Rosemary Kennedy,” has been unanimously {…}

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Irish National Opera 2018-19 Review: Least Like The Other, Searching For Rosemary Kennedy

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(Photo: Pat Redmond) Irish National Opera’s world premiere of “Least Like the Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy” took place at Galway’s International Arts Festival this July, an amazing feat in itself, given that the company has only been in existence for 18 months, yet it was the innovative quality and sheer brilliance of the work that really impressed. Five years {…}

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Roxanna Panufnik, Gavin Bryars, & Errollyn Wallen Among 2024 Ivor Classical Award Winners

The King’s Singers Bring ‘Summer School’ to Princeton University

LA Phil Presents U.S. Premiere ‘Last Days’

The Ivors Classical Awards 2023 Releases Nominees

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

Irish National Opera to Present U.K. Premiere of ‘Least Like the Other,’ an Opera on the Rosemary Kennedy Tragedy

Best of 2019 – OperaWire’s Staff on the Best Performances of the Year

Q & A: Naomi Louisa O’Connell On Her Very Individual Career Path And On Playing Rosemary Kennedy

Irish National Opera 2018-19 Review: Least Like The Other, Searching For Rosemary Kennedy