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Reply #30 - 12. May 2005 at 12:52
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keegan, sorry just noticed your Pappano disc:  that certainly would be worth listening to.  We should have a chat sometime about the fairies/elves in Britten's Mid. Sum. Night Dream, especially the scene where they awaken Bottom...


Well certainly, I will have to dig my Britten's recording out again, but music written for (or sung by) trebles is quite a favorite of mine.
  
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Reply #31 - 01. Dec 2005 at 06:40
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OK time to kick off a `chat`!
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from review in monday's london evening standard.
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a midsummer night's dream

[review by stephen pettitt]

in a surely deliberate allusion to britten's own psycho-sexual condition, the fairies - the excellent tiffin boys' choir - are dressed in white pyjamas as if plucked straight from a prep school dorm...

here's the choir - www site : tiffin.kingston.sch.uk/music/TiffinBC.asp

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here are some reviews (googleweb and googlenews)-

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Reply #32 - 02. Dec 2005 at 01:28
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That sounds mighty pleasant evening's entertainment.

I think I need to move to the UK. What are rent's like over there.  Smiley
  
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Reply #33 - 05. Dec 2005 at 03:52
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i'll get back to you on the rent issue Grin

meanwhile - it's billy budd time.

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upload the pic and post the details for me, would you? [i'm in the public library with horribly inadequate computers.]
  
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Reply #34 - 06. Dec 2005 at 21:33
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Under no circumstances to be missed’ (The Guardian), Neil Armfield’s illuminating reading of Billy Budd receives its long-awaited London premiere. In the season in which Benjamin Britten becomes ENO’s House Composer, this engrossing WNO/Opera Australia production is the perfect salute to a great British masterpiece. The all-male cast sees Timothy Robinson making his role debut as Captain Vere, while the charismatic Simon Keenlyside sings the title role and Sir John Tomlinson appears as Claggart. With a sense of motion created through a cleverly abstract set, this Billy Budd is gripping theatre from start to finish.

7 Performances only. From £10. Sign-language interpreted performance: December 14
Production originally created by Welsh National Opera and Opera Australia. Running time: 2 hrs & 50 mins
Billy Budd Study Day: Dec 3, venue Guy's campus - Kings college - click here for a map, £17.50
Pre-performance talk with Philip Reed: Dec 8, London Coliseum, £3

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Is apple going to see it?
  
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Reply #35 - 19. Dec 2005 at 04:11
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alas, i am too cash-poor to be able to attend the opera Sad
  
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Reply #36 - 03. Apr 2006 at 08:12
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I was really excited about Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw, being performed here in Montreal. I was going to buy a ticket, but then found out that the part of Miles is played... by a woman!

I'd still like to hear it, but somehow that kind of ruins it for me. Maybe I'll just wait for another performance. (Though, who knows when that will be?)
  
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Reply #37 - 28. Apr 2006 at 17:30
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I was really excited about Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw, being performed here in Montreal. I was going to buy a ticket, but then found out that the part of Miles is played... by a woman!



Not only is that the height of bad manners, I'm sure it would actually be illegal in the UK.
  
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