Richard Strauss’s
Der Rosenkavalier. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Barrie Kosky’s new staging with Marlis Petersen (Die Marschallin), Samantha Hankey (Octavian), Katharina Konradi (Sophie), Christof Fischesser (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), and Johannes Martin Kränzle (Herr von Faninal). The new production will be performed in the arrangement by Eberhard Kloke which transcribes the score to match the orchestration of Strauss’s opera
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The line-up for this year s West Wicklow Festival has been announced with dates taking place in May, while details of events due to take place in November will be announced in Autumn.
Fiachra Garvey, Founder and Artistic Director, grew up as a pianist and farmer in Ballyknockan, West Wicklow, on the glistening Blessington Lakes. The festival is now in its fifth year and featured artists for 2021 include Sean Shibe (guitar), Rosanne Philippens and Zoltán Fejérvári (violin and piano), Quatuor Van Kuijk, Jamal Aliyev and Sam Armstrong (cello and piano), Trio Sitkovetsky, Rachel Kelly (mezzo-soprano), Fiachra Garvey (piano), Phoebe White and Peter Regan (violin and piano). The programme will also feature a new commission by composer Linda Buckley.
Itâs almost an inevitable question now, when you catch up with someone youâve not been in touch with during the Covid-19 pandemic â What have you been up to during the lockdown?
Pianist Finghin Collins, who is also artistic director of Music for Galway and the New Ross Piano Festival, has always presented himself as an easy-going, optimistic, forward-facing character, a former child prodigy who launched his international career by winning the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition at the age of 22 in 1999.
But, even for him, the first lockdown last March was âvery difficultâ.
âIt came with such abruptness. There was nothing in place, no mental preparation, no physical infrastructures, online facilities. We werenât set up for it. It was a great shock to the system. What I said to many people at the time was the hardest thing about it was the lack of a finite end. We didnât know when or how it would end. We were getting bad news all
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