(Photo: ENO’s Peter Grimes 2023 © Tom Bowles) David Alden’s “Peter Grimes” begins with the curtain up. Upstage the people of the Borough mill about restlessly, occasionally breaking into shouts of anger and impatience. Alden’s 2009 production, on its second revival, breaks with any wistful or bucolic notions about the seaside community of the Borough, who drive the equally unrelenting {…}
(Image supplied by Marketing Dept. of Sydney Eisteddfod) Sydney Eisteddfod has announced that Cleo Lee-McGowan has won the 2019 Opera Scholarship Final, which awards her $43,000 toward her operatic dreams. The soprano, who will use her scholarship when she heads to the London to study at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, performed “Ach, ich fühl’s” from Mozart’s “Die {…}
The Sydney Eisteddfod has announced the eight finalists for its famed Opera Scholarship, which features prizes totaling of over $61,000. The company has revealed that all eight of the singers competing for the top prize are women, making it the first time since 1995 where it is an “all-girl final.” The finalists are Olivia Cranwell, Michelle Ryan, Kirsten Jones, Panayiota {…}