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Review : A Liver Bird Sang - Opening Night
Posted by Stephen
Wendy and I attended the opening night of A Liver Bird Sang this evening.This operatic production, funded on a shoe-string because Capital of Culture wouldn’t support it, was a true Liverpool musical production.
The cast all performed for free, and some of them, like the magnificent Nick Hardy, and highly talented Jane Hamlet, Julie Davitt and Valerie Watts must surely have been professionals from time to time.
It is the story of the revival of a Liverpool night club - the Scouse ‘Ouse, and a love story between Ella McCabe, cabaret singer in the club and Matt Lightfoot, who wants to buy the club. The whole set against a backdrop of class differences and the striving of the working classes of Old Swan to achieve through education.
The music is by Schubert, arranged beautifully by Geoff Lavelle, with lyrics by John Dixon.
The opening song and regular refrain “The City passes by” was stunning, although there were so many actors performing in this busy city scene that it was hard to catch all of the action at the same time. We got used to the bustle in each scene though and it allowed for some wonderful pastiches and bursts of comic genius from the young Ashley Guidera in terrific form as the nightclub bouncer.
Source : Louise Baldock
Author : Louise Baldock
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Star Part for Cardiff Graduate
Posted by Stephen
Cardiff International Academy of Voice graduate Jurgita Adamonyte has taken to the stage for the world premiere of a new work by best-selling composer Karl Jenkins.Performing alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Jurgita was one of two female soloists singing in Stabat Mater, the latest classical work by Welsh musician and Cardiff University music graduate Karl Jenkins.
Source : News Wales
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Author : Unknown
Liverpool Moves Out of The Shadows…
Posted by Stephen
The plot of Emilia di Liverpool, the seldom-heard Donizetti opera that kicked off Liverpool’s year as European capital of culture last night, is absurd but not quite as convoluted as the intrigues that have dogged the 2008 launch.The opera, featuring an Alpine village near Liverpool, will be given six performances in the newly restored small concert room of St George’s Hall, one of the city’s great public buildings. The imaginative project is one of the first items in a packed programme which shows planners have been hard at work while very public rows hit the headlines.
Source : The Guardian
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Author : David Ward