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It brought a long annual season and consistent management to a house that had previously hosted short seasons under a series of impresarios. Since its inception, it has shared the Royal Opera House with the dance company now known as The Royal Ballet. In Rotherham, we work with local partners to deliver a programme of activity with the aim of reaching every primary school in the region.
The Bride of Frankenstein with Live Orchestra
The Royal Ballet will also welcome Cassa Pancho's Ballet Black back to the Royal Opera House to continue their association with the Linbury Theatre. This company of Black and Asian classically trained dancers will present a dynamic mixed programme by Olivier-award-winning choreographers Mthuthuzeli November and Will Tuckett. Yorke Dance Project also return with a programme of works that juxtaposes past and present, celebrating choreographers who have indelibly shaped dance today. Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival, an exciting new partnership with Van Cleef & Arpels, will present a selection of established works alongside new pieces of choreography. The Season will also see more new work on the Main Stage in a contemporary mixed programme (to be announced) that includes the world premiere of a work by Kyle Abraham.
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She is an active and fervent proponent for the inclusion and development of new works for chamber and large orchestra, especially music from Latin-American composers. She is the Artistic Director of Unitas Ensemble, a chamber orchestra she founded that performs the works of Latinx composers, and provides access to free community performances for underserved communities. Her work with Unitas has earned her numerous community awards, most recently a Spark Boston award from the City of Boston. She has also commissioned multiple World, North-American, and American premieres, as well as the creation and release of the Unitas Ensemble album Estaciones, recorded alongside the Latin Grammy-winning Cuarteto Latinoamericano.
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Oliver Mears, Director of Opera of The Royal Opera
Katherine Syer is a dramaturg for spoken and lyric theater, with research specializations in historical and contemporary opera/theater production. Her work in these areas was at the core of her activities for nearly two decades at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in the theater studies and musicology departments. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has worked with many graduate students in the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA. Her scholarly publications include several studies of Wagner's creative process and dramatic art. An international opera critic for over 30 years, Syer is an avid performing arts advocate and public speaker.
Angel Blue in Concert
She joined the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as Cio-Cio-San, Luisa Miller, the Countess, Mimi, Rusalka and as Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann. At the Royal Opera House Covent Garden she debuted her Alice Ford in Falstaff, and portrayed Violetta in La Traviata, Cio-Cio-San and Donna Elvira. In the Middle East, she portrayed Mimi with the Abu Dhabi Festival in the United Arab Emirates, for the city’s first ever fully staged opera production. Recent performances include Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Donna Elvira in a new Robert Falls production of Don Giovanni, her role debut as Desdemona in Otello, as well as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Mimi in La Bohème, Nedda in Pagliacci, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte and Marguerite in Faust.
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Little Bulb’s Oliver award-winning Wolf Witch Giant Fairy will excite children and families in the Linbury Theatre with the original troupe of travelling players returning as the energetic ensemble cast, bringing this endearing folk opera to new audiences, young and old. On the main stage, music lovers of all ages can enjoy Antony McDonald's mischievous production of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, newly translated into English by Kelley Rourke. Mark Wigglesworth conducts two stellar casts including Anna Stéphany, Hanna Hipp, Anna Devin and Lauren Fagan. The Royal Opera House reopened on 20 February 1946 with a performance of The Sleeping Beauty in an extravagant new production designed by Oliver Messel.[26] Webster, with his music director Karl Rankl, immediately began to build a resident company.
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The enduringly popular 19th-century classics The Nutcracker and Swan Lake will also feature in the Season. Before the grand opening, the Royal Opera House presented one of the Robert Mayer Children's concerts on Saturday, 9 February 1946.
Original Production
With a “heroically shining tone of exceptional clarity and precision” (Opera magazine) and “gorgeously burnished power” (The New York Times), American tenor Russell Thomas uses his signature elegance and intensity to create vivid character portrayals on the world’s most important stages. "There was a full cast of powerhouse singers. [Russell] Thomas as a compelling Otello… his burnished tenor brings a heartbreaking beauty even to big, overwrought emotions." Mike Hardy is a Royal Television Society award-nominated investigative journalist who has worked in the British television and print media industries for over 25 years. In conclusion, as I commenced, this is a most commendable and beautifully sung opera, but its staging and direction are frequently and gratuitously barbarous and brutish.
The tale, its characters, and its plot can elicit suitable empathy, repulsion, and consternation in us all. British Mezzo Rachael Lloyd delivers a touching, compassionate performance as Lucia’s Maid and companion, another voice I would have liked to have heard more of. Former Jette Parker member, Uruguayan tenor Andres Presno, is cast as the luckless Arturo Bucklaw whose competent tenor voice is evident in an all too brief appearance, his singing role rather eclipsed by the salacious shenanigans that precedes his demise.
Other operatic highlights include Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Baron Mirko Zeta in The Merry Widow, Giove in La Calisto, Kecal in The Bartered Bride, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, and Seneca in The Coronation of Poppea. He has also been seen performing selections of Bernstein and Mahler with the CCM Philharmonic, and was the bass soloist in Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music with the DePaul University Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2023, he performed Le Dancaïre in Carmen with Des Moines Metro Opera, followed by his Hollywood Bowl debut in Chris Thile's Attention! In the summer of 2022, he joined the Frank R. Brownell III Apprentice Program at Des Moines Metro Opera, where he sung the role of Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and covered the role of the Lawyer in Porgy and Bess.
He is a proud alumnus of DePaul University where he received his bachelor of music, studying with Jeff Ray. He won an Encouragement Award in the Central Region Finals of the Eric and Dominque Laffont Competition in 2021, won first prize in the 2022 University of Cincinnati – CCM Corbett Opera Scholarship Competition and is a two-time semi-finalist (2021, 2022) of the Lotte Lenya Competition. He has also won awards from Classical Singer National Voice Competition and the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition.
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