Tenor says he'll be back
GREAT disappointment on Friday at the last-minute cancellation of the recital by tenorAlasdair Elliott, scheduled to have been given at the RSAMD, Glasgow. Earlier in the week, Elliott had been nursing a suspected chest infection. It took root, and though the singer and his pianist, Julia Lynch, rehearsed up until and including Thursday, at that point it became clear he was too unwell to proceed, and had no option but to withdraw. The cancellation was ironic in that Elliott - Mime in Scottish Opera's Ring cycle - had already decided to proceed with the recital despite a family bereavement (the death of his mother) during the previous week. The good news is that he has immediately rescheduled his concert, to feature the same programme including Michael Tippett's cantata Boyhood's End, the same composer's Songs for Ariel, along with songs by James MacMillan. The recital will be restaged on
Friday, April 29, next year at 1pm in the academy. Top date for the diary.
Verdi's comic treat
Hot tips from the RSAMD's coming term, which will be published in the academy's new year brochure, will include a fully-staged production of Verdi's great, late comic masterpiece, Falstaff, to be directed by Martin Lloyd-Evans and conducted by the academy's head of opera, Timothy Dean.
There are two performances only at the RSAMD (January 26 and 28, followed by two at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh (February 2 and 4). See the new brochure for details.
Also coming from the academy: the return (in March) to the symphony orchestra of Joseph Swensen, chief conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Swensen will conduct the students in a performance of Sibelius's Second Symphony which, for those who remember the sensational Rite of Spring he directed with the same forces, should promise something very special, very intense.
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