Scottish tenor Michael Gibson is a member of the same artist program and is becoming something of a Royal Opera House stalwart. He takes the role of Count of Lerma here, a minor role, predominantly in this performance to notify the would-be lovers, Don Carlo and Elizabeth, that their love...
The wind part of this last work was for Mozart’s friend Anton Stadler, a virtuoso performer on the newly developed clarinet and on the basset-clarinet, an instrument of extended range and of his own invention. Mozart’s work for string instruments includes a group of string quintets written...
The wind part of this last work was for Mozart’s friend Anton Stadler, a virtuoso performer on the newly developed clarinet and on the basset-clarinet, an instrument of extended range and of his own invention. Mozart’s work for string instruments includes a group of string quintets written...
Royal Ballet,the principal British ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House,Covent Garden, London. It is noted for lavish dramatic productions, a superbly disciplined corps de ballet, and brilliant performances from its principals. Granted a royal charter in 1956, the company was formed fro...
© Dave Morgan, courtesy the Royal Opera House. (Click image for larger version) When I saw the premiere ofBecomingsin 2015, I found it baffling. Supposedly based onOrlando– the costumes are ravishing (Moritz Junge) by the way – we’re taken, I assume, on a journey through time, ...
Princess Astrid married Johan Martin Ferner. Because of her marriage to a commoner, she lost her style of Royal Highness (becoming just Highness) but remained a very active member of the Norwegian Royal Family. The couple had five children. In 2015, Johan Martin Ferner, Princess Astrid’s hus...
First Night: Old Friend Returns with a Lick of Polish ; COPPELIA ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDONCOMMEMORATION IS all the rage right now, and nowhere more so than in the Royal Ballet. The past season has been devoted to souvenirs of Anthony Dowell's career, and the company has memorialised the ...
after the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. On Sunday, October 14, Princess Margaret would attend a matinee performance of the Lyric Opera of Chicago whereLeontyne PriceandLuciano Pavarottiwould perform. The night before she would attend a private dinner at the private home of millionaire...
In the mid '60s he attended the Royal College of Art, becoming a painter and art teacher. In the early '70s, Dury founded the band Kilburn & The High Roads, a pub-rock band that helped pave the way for punk but also had a quirky, bookish side influenced as much by jazz and ...
•The stories behind some of the world’s most iconic buildings – from the Sydney Opera House to the Centre Pompidou in Paris – and engineering projects like London’s Crossrail will be exposed in a new exhibition at the V&A on the work of Ove Arup – arguably the most influential engi...