Bach tracked: Bach's cantatas at the Royal Academy of Music

Von David Fay, 24 Januar 2012

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Academy of Music: Duke's Hall, London, am 22 Januar 2012

Bach, Es wartet alles auf dich - Cantata, BWV187

Bach, Widerstehe doch der Sünde - Cantata, BWV54

Bach, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen - Cantata, BWV12

Iain Ledingham, Direktor

Madelaine Easton, Konzertmeister

Ruth Jenkins-Róbertsson, Sopran

Leo Tomita, Countertenor

Ru Charlesworth, Tenor

Andri Björn Róbertsson, Bass

RAM Opera double bill: Dido and Aeneas and The Lighthouse

Emily Owen, 16th May

The Royal Academy of Music tonight presented the fruits of their latest postgraduate opera course with two short operas representing opposite ends of the musical timeline.Purcell’s miniature three-act opera really needs no introduction.

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Lessons in Love and Violence für den politischen Alltag

Michael Klier, 25th June

George Benjamins neue Oper beschreibt eindringlich einen durch Liebe hilflosen König – Hannigan und Degout füllen die tiefgründige Musik mit hingebungsvollem Emotionsspiel.

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Opera North’s gleeful Magic Flute revived

Richard Wilcocks, 27th September

Conducted by Christoph Konz and directed by James Brining, Opera North’s revival of The Magic Flute remains an inventive reinterpretation of Mozart’s classic opera.

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A feast of Purcell in Sir David Pountney’s Masque of Might

Richard Wilcocks, 6th October

Sir David Pountney directs a satirical take on dictatorship and the climate crisis inventively set to the music of Purcell.

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Lessons in Love and Violence: ice and drama

David Karlin, 10th May

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's second full scale opera is a refinement of the craft showed in Written on Skin – but the lessons are less in love and violince than in power, tension and beauty of the score.

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Hot ice and strange snow

Mark Pullinger, 1st March

In Siberian conditions more akin to The Winter's Tale, a revival of Robert Carsen's season setting of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream offered a warm glow at the Coliseum.

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David Fay

David studied Music and French at Bristol University and is now undertaking a PhD in Musicology. His specialism is religious music but his musical passions range from Alkaline Trio to Zadok the Priest.