Notes from the Podium Members Only – Notes from the podium

Jonathan Kent CBE on Directing Opera (Britten, Puccini, Mozart, Purcell)

Published on 4th October 20234th October 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

13th July 2023 Jonathan Kent’s opera productions include Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Britten’s The Turn of the Screw (Glyndebourne Festival...

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Robyn Bollinger on the Role of the Concertmaster (Tchaikovsky)

Published on 4th October 20234th October 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

6th September 2023 Daring, versatile, and charismatic, American violinist Robyn Bollinger was appointed Concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra...

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Sir David Bintley on the Matthew Hindson Ballets

Published on 8th July 20238th July 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

May 1st 2023 David Bintley joined Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet after graduating from The Royal Ballet School in 1976....

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John Andrews on Dame Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald

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(Photo: Katharine Andrews) 31st May 2023 John Andrews is Principal Guest Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra and...

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TÁR Review: It’s a Masterpiece

Published on 8th July 20239th August 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

(updated 9th August 2023) Introduction The TÁR zeitgeist may have come and gone, but an in-depth review of this...

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Sir Roger Norrington on Schumann’s Symphonies

Published on 9th January 20239th January 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

28th November 2022 For fifty years Roger Norrington has been at the forefront of the movement for historically informed...

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Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey on the orchestral music of Afghanistan

Published on 9th January 202310th January 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

(Photo: Oliver Oppitz) 27th October 2022 Orchestral conductor Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey is emblematic of the 21st century’s newest vanguard of...

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Simon Beck on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel

Published on 9th January 20239th January 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

8th November 2022 Simon Beck studied conducting, piano and French horn at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,...

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Brett Dean on Hamlet (2017)

Published on 7th December 20227th December 2022 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

5th May 2016 Brett Dean studied in his hometown, Brisbane, before moving to Germany in 1984 where he was...

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Scott Wilson on Adamo’s Little Women

Published on 5th October 202220th October 2023 / Dr Hannah Baxter Posted in Notes from the Podium Members Only Continue reading

25th August 2022 London-based Australian conductor Scott Wilson was Zander Fellow with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Artist in Residence...

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