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| Stuart Hancock: Pandora’s Field – London Youth Opera at Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, 2023 (Photograph: Nina Swann) |
Final December, London Youth Opera (LYO) offered Stuart Hancock and Donald Sturrock’s Pandora’s Field on the Royal Academy of Music’s Susie Sainsbury Theatre [see my review]. Charlie Swann, who sang Prometheus, has accepted a scholarship at Royal Academy of Music to check Opera there full-time from this September. LYO is following this with a brand new fee for 2024, The Quest by composer Nathan Williamson and libretto by singer-songwriter Megg Nicol.
Williamson is a composer and pianist, and as a pianist he has gained kudos for his three-volume recording venture for SOMM Recordings, 100 Years of British Tune, with tenor James Gilchrist, in addition to founding The Artwork of British Tune venture. As a composer, Williamson’s song-cycle, Gray and Inexperienced are all my Mild, was premiered final yr by baritone Jonathan Eyers. His opera, Machine Dream, a youngsters’s opera commissioned by Mahogany Opera Group for his or her ground-breaking Snappy Operas venture, has been carried out by quite a few main faculties throughout the UK.
In The Quest, a bunch of good younger scientists consider they’re on the cusp of fixing the world’s environmental issues and saving the planet – however will they follow their quest and fulfil their promise to humanity, or have their heads turned by the celebrity and fortune provided to them by the alluring however corrupt politicians? Additional particulars from LYO’s web site.
The corporate at present has a funding attraction to lift cash for the corporate’s plans, do go to this LYO Match Funding Enchantment web page to assist them.
