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Monthly culture: September 2018
A quiet month, to make up for August ...
18SEP18: Hamilton (Lewis), Kings Head Theatre
Saw this in Edinburgh: second time around was just as good, and K (possibly the target audience, given mix of F1 and Hamilton) liked it too.
28SEP18: Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) -- OperaUpClose, Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich
Splendid concert performance, in English, of one of Donizetti's less popular operas. It's not in my top five of his works, but it is predictably tuneful, layered and full of bright cheerful arias and ensemble pieces about (in this case) treachery, jealousy, doomed romance and public execution. OperaUpClose (six singers, who possibly outnumbered the musicians) conveyed a lot of plot with occasional gestures and very little movement. I'll look out for them again.
'Autumn' at the Asylum, Peckham -- Multiphonic Arts
The highlight for me was Rachmaninov's Sonata for Cello and Piano by Russian cellist Luba Ulybysheva and pianist James Kreiling: what a fascinating piece, full of contrast and drama. The rest of the programme was also very good -- I liked the poetry readings, and Langston Hughes' short story 'Early Autumn', and the way that Debussy segued into Thelonious Monk made me happy.
18SEP18: Hamilton (Lewis), Kings Head Theatre
Saw this in Edinburgh: second time around was just as good, and K (possibly the target audience, given mix of F1 and Hamilton) liked it too.
28SEP18: Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) -- OperaUpClose, Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich
Splendid concert performance, in English, of one of Donizetti's less popular operas. It's not in my top five of his works, but it is predictably tuneful, layered and full of bright cheerful arias and ensemble pieces about (in this case) treachery, jealousy, doomed romance and public execution. OperaUpClose (six singers, who possibly outnumbered the musicians) conveyed a lot of plot with occasional gestures and very little movement. I'll look out for them again.
'Autumn' at the Asylum, Peckham -- Multiphonic Arts
The highlight for me was Rachmaninov's Sonata for Cello and Piano by Russian cellist Luba Ulybysheva and pianist James Kreiling: what a fascinating piece, full of contrast and drama. The rest of the programme was also very good -- I liked the poetry readings, and Langston Hughes' short story 'Early Autumn', and the way that Debussy segued into Thelonious Monk made me happy.