Christopher Luscombe
Nicholas Lester, from Adelaide to Barber via Amazon
MS: You have had, and continue to have, a strong association with Wales. How did they come about and develop? NL: My first singing teacher as an adult was a Welsh baritone Jason Shute (originally from Swansea) who had emigrated to Australia with his wife. I met him through my involvement in the annual Adelaide…
Iford Arts New Generation Artists I Pagliacci
This Iford Arts New Generation Artists performance of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci at Belcombe Court demonstrated there is no shortage of developing talent and the vital role of performance experience. The audience was treated to individual performances that should soon happily grace some of our professional state funded opera companies. Clearly, carefully rehearsed by production director Christopher…
Elin Pritchard comes out fighting
- 25th August 2021
- Interviews
- Aled Hall
- Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Belcombe Court
- Bradford on Avon
- Christopher Luscombe
- Elin Pritchard
- English National Opera
- Grange Festival
- Hamish Mackay
- Iford Arts
- Il tabarro
- Longborough Opera
- Mid Wales Opera
- Opera Ensemble
- Opera Holland Park
- Pagliacci
- Peter Auty
- Poul Ruder
- Robert Hayward
- Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Welsh National Opera
Lockdown was intended to squash the COVID sombrero in early 2020 but it also flattened soprano Elin Pritchard’s rising career. Like many other singers the impact of the pandemic was sudden and dramatic. The North Wales-born, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama graduate was performing as Micaëla in Welsh National Opera’s touring production of…