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Meredith Monk’s Songs of Ascension set for EIF
17 Aug 2010
The multi-disciplinary american composer on her Edinburgh show
Meredith Monk’s Songs of Ascension is a characteristic multi-disciplinary work that combines music, film and movement to create an uplifting ritual. She tells Claire Prentice about her background and career – and why she’s so excited about visiting…
Admeto Re’di Tessaglia
20 Aug 2009
Getting a handle on Handel
Scorned lovers, jealous tantrums and furious outbursts are all in a day’s work for conductor Nicholas McGegan. As he explains, ‘There’s not a great deal of difference between opera and soap opera – they are all about love, jealously and ambition.…
Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich
20 Aug 2009
American soprano is mobbed, but not in the mob
Dawn Upshaw is up to her elbows in batter. She’s in the kitchen of her New York home, making pancakes with her son. It’s a very domestic scene, but then the American soprano couldn’t be further from the diva-ish stereotype. She’s just returned from the…
Die Roten Punkte - Robot/Lion tour
13 Jul 2009
German rock siblings Die Roten Punkte are set to be bigger than U2
Germany has made a number of unforgettable gifts to modern pop music, from Nena’s mulleted anti-war anthem ‘99 Luftballons’, to the soaring synth tinkle of Alphaville’s ‘Big in Japan’. But Die Roten Punkte could be set to eclipse them all with Berlin’s…
Doris Dörrie to direct Handel's Admeto, re di Tessaglia
13 Jul 2009
The opera is given a Far Eastern flavour
It might be nearly 300 years since it was first performed in London, but Handel’s opera Admeto, re di Tessaglia isn’t showing its age. Given an innovative reworking by director Doris Dörrie, the action has been transplanted from the classical Greek…
