On Saturday 24 April the great lyric soprano Amanda Roocroft spent an afternoon with three of the 2021 Opera Holland Park Young Artists, giving masterclasses on music by Mozart and Strauss. Filmed by Simon Wall, and accompanied by the YA répétiteur Thomas Ang, Amanda worked with soprano Isabelle Peters and bass baritone Alex Jones on arias from Der Rosenkavalier and The Marriage of Figaro.
The film offers captivating insights into the complex business of combining vocal technique, musicality, physicality, imagination and stagecraft to create a compelling character in song. As Amanda brings empathy, wit and a wealth of experience to a rapid learning process, Thomas demonstrates the subtlety and strength required of a répétiteur. Available to watch online from Friday 14 May, this is a delightful behind-the-scenes document of life as an Opera Holland Park Young Artist in the tenth year of the training scheme.
http://www.operahollandpark.com/
Details of a new series of concerts have just been released featuring the piano in different styles and settings.
Friday 28th May 7pm
Rye Creative Centre
Claire Martin OBE and Nikki Iles
Monday 21st June 7pm
Fairlight Hall
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE
and pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason
Saturday 17th or 18th July dependant on weather
12.30pm - 1.30pm and 6pm - 7pm
Fairlight Hall
Lucy Parham and Tim McInnerny
Saturday 11th or Sunday 12th September dependant on weather 2pm
Fairlight Hall
2019 HIPCC Prizewinner Yuanfan Yang
Saturday 25th September 5.30pm
Fairlight Hall
Mitsuko Uchida
Friday 8th October 7pm
White Rock Theatre
Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition Launch Concert with Maxim Kinasov and The EU Chamber Orchestra
Saturday 4th December 7pm
HIP Christmas Concert in Rye
with Sholto Kynoch and Schubert and Co Singers
An Evening of Opera and Song
hastingsinternationalpiano.org
Next production: Offenbach’s The Princess of Trébizonde
After such a joyful production of Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène in 2019/20, we could not resist the temptation to follow it with another of his hilarious (but much lesser known) masterpieces. Postponed because of Covid, it is rescheduled for mid November to early December. It has all the wonderfully zany ingredients typical of Offenbach’s work: set in a travelling circus, the action begins as a daughter of the acrobat dusts a waxwork of Princess Trébizonde and accidentally breaks off its nose. She then has no choice but to instal herself in its position and to impersonate the statue. A visiting prince turns up and, naturally, falls in love with what he thinks is the waxwork…
Toby Purser conducts St Paul’s Sinfonia. Director Tony Baker, who has directed several NSO productions in the past, has created a new version in English.
We are finalising tour dates and venues. Keep up to date at
newsussexopera.org