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NMC Goldberg Cd with 'Amores' Horn Concerto selected
21 Dec 2011, 16:48Goldberg Ensemble Cd (NMC D174) with 'Amores' Horn Concerto, has been selected as one of his 'top ten' Cds of 2011 by Paul Driver in the Sunday Times.
November performances and Dream Hunter in Wales
13 Nov 2011, 10:12SATURDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2011
Dream Hunter had very successful performances in Wales - go to 'photos' and have a look. It will be at Wilton's Music Hall, London, on February 2nd, 3rd, 4th. Meanwhile the Kreutzer Quartet will be playing my string quartet no3 at Wilton's on Sunday November 27th, 6pm. And on Wednesday November 30th, my Catalan folksongs (Five Songs from Catalunya) will be sung by The 24 in the Lyons Concert Hall, York.
Dream Hunter had very successful performances in Wales - go to 'photos' and have a look. It will be at Wilton's Music Hall, London, on February 2nd, 3rd, 4th. Meanwhile the Kreutzer Quartet will be playing my string quartet no3 at Wilton's on Sunday November 27th, 6pm. And on Wednesday November 30th, my Catalan folksongs (Five Songs from Catalunya) will be sung by The 24 in the Lyons Concert Hall, York.
Special dates for the diary
15 Oct 2011, 20:31October 25th: premiere of Dream Hunter in Aberystwyth; then touring to Swansea (Oct 27th) and Cardiff (Oct 29th).
October 31st: David Lumsdaine's 80th birthday
November 1st: free concert at 6pm at the Royal Academy of Music in London, to celebrate David's birthday.
October 31st: David Lumsdaine's 80th birthday
November 1st: free concert at 6pm at the Royal Academy of Music in London, to celebrate David's birthday.
Dream Hunter: cast
2 Oct 2011, 11:36Dream Hunter has a great cast:
Catarina: Charmian Bedford
Angela: Caryl Hughes
Sampiero: Brian Smith Walters
Domenico: Jeremy Huw Williams
Catarina: Charmian Bedford
Angela: Caryl Hughes
Sampiero: Brian Smith Walters
Domenico: Jeremy Huw Williams
New chamber opera: Dream Hunter
24 Sep 2011, 11:34
Dream Hunter – a new chamber opera composed by Nicola LeFanu to a libretto by John Fuller – goes into rehearsal this week, and opens on October 25th 2011 at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Wales.
Set in Corsica, the opera explores the ambiguity surrounding the mazzere - women gifted with the prescience of death. If they foresee death, do they also cause it? The men may hunt by day, but the women hunt in their dreams. Sampiero is betrothed to Angela, but it is her younger sister Catarina whom he wants. Courtships of desire, courtships of death: where is the borderline between fact and fancy? As the story unfolds, imagination and reality become entwined.
Lontano Ensemble is grateful for the support of the following organisations:
The Arts Council of Wales, the RVW Trust, the Britten Pears Foundation, The Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, the D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Mercers Foundation, The PRS Foundation and the Mornington Trust.
The opera centres on Catarina and her growing awareness of her powers. It turns on this collision of two worlds: the world of dreams, where our fantasy knows no bounds, and the real world where our actions will be judged. As the story unfolds, imagination and reality become entwined.
John Fuller, is renowned as a poet and storyteller. He divides his time between his house in Wales, and Oxford, where he is a College Fellow.
Dream Hunter is Nicola LeFanu’s seventh opera, following the critically acclaimed Light Passing.
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