Portrait of the artist: Kate Royal, soprano
Laura BarnettTuesday October 2, 2007The Guardian
What got you started?
Seeing a Welsh National Opera production of A Rake's Progress when I was 15. I realised opera was the one place I could combine all the things I loved: music, dance, drama, poetry, design and costume.
The call of the wild
Baritone Simon Keenlyside is home after years working abroad. He enjoys flamenco and the blues as much as opera, but his greatest inspiration comes from the natural world. Nicholas WroeSaturday September 8, 2007The Guardian
To glance through baritone Simon Keenlyside's CV is to see the well-worn path of an English singing career. He was a boy chorister at St John's College, Cambridge, where he sang premieres of work by Tippett and Messiaen. Later came a scholarship to the university, training at the Royal Northern College of Music and a steady progression through concert halls and the national opera companies. As he moved up the bill, from Fiorello to Figaro, from Donald to Billy Budd, so the prizes and awards accumulated, culminating in 2003 in a CBE from a grateful establishment.
Caravans in the desert
Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road project brings together the music of the cultures along the ancient trade route from Asia to Europe. His path has been rocky - but hugely rewarding, the cellist tells Paul Cutts Friday September 7, 2007The Guardian
Last year, a cellist made his solitary way down the marbled hallways of power in Washington DC. In front of the House committee on government reform, he pleaded with politicians to relax the visa restrictions that were causing havoc for international artists hoping to perform in the US. It's rare for a classical musician to have the ear of political leaders, a position rock stars such as Bono and Bob Geldof seem to have monopolised in the media. But Yo-Yo Ma has that status, in real and fictional life (he performed for the president in an episode of The West Wing).
Das Rheingold
Royal Opera House, London Tim AshleyWednesday October 3, 2007The Guardian
Wagner arouses more intense passions than any other composer, so it was perhaps inevitable that the Royal Opera's Ring cycle, now finally performed in its entirety, should already have excited considerable controversy.
Laura BarnettTuesday October 2, 2007The Guardian
What got you started?
Seeing a Welsh National Opera production of A Rake's Progress when I was 15. I realised opera was the one place I could combine all the things I loved: music, dance, drama, poetry, design and costume.
The call of the wild
Baritone Simon Keenlyside is home after years working abroad. He enjoys flamenco and the blues as much as opera, but his greatest inspiration comes from the natural world. Nicholas WroeSaturday September 8, 2007The Guardian
To glance through baritone Simon Keenlyside's CV is to see the well-worn path of an English singing career. He was a boy chorister at St John's College, Cambridge, where he sang premieres of work by Tippett and Messiaen. Later came a scholarship to the university, training at the Royal Northern College of Music and a steady progression through concert halls and the national opera companies. As he moved up the bill, from Fiorello to Figaro, from Donald to Billy Budd, so the prizes and awards accumulated, culminating in 2003 in a CBE from a grateful establishment.
Caravans in the desert
Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road project brings together the music of the cultures along the ancient trade route from Asia to Europe. His path has been rocky - but hugely rewarding, the cellist tells Paul Cutts Friday September 7, 2007The Guardian
Last year, a cellist made his solitary way down the marbled hallways of power in Washington DC. In front of the House committee on government reform, he pleaded with politicians to relax the visa restrictions that were causing havoc for international artists hoping to perform in the US. It's rare for a classical musician to have the ear of political leaders, a position rock stars such as Bono and Bob Geldof seem to have monopolised in the media. But Yo-Yo Ma has that status, in real and fictional life (he performed for the president in an episode of The West Wing).
Das Rheingold
Royal Opera House, London Tim AshleyWednesday October 3, 2007The Guardian
Wagner arouses more intense passions than any other composer, so it was perhaps inevitable that the Royal Opera's Ring cycle, now finally performed in its entirety, should already have excited considerable controversy.
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