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		<title>Original Features (2011)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Children&#8217;s opera in one act [75'] libretto by Christina Jones commissioned by W11 opera for their 40th anniversary fp. 3 December 2011. Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London W6 multiple roles of all abilities &#8211; suitable for children aged 9-18 large chorus professional band (9 players) 3 clarinets in Bb and A (2+Eb clarinet/3+bass clarinet in Bb) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prophet and Loss (2011)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opera in two acts [82'] Libretto by the composer first performance 20 July 2011, Oundle Festival Commissioned by the Oundle Music Trust for the 2011 Oundle Festival p. Ali Boag d. Rebecca Desmond c. Alexander Walker cast Nessa Husk &#8211; chairman of Husk Inc: Victoria Simmonds (mezzo soprano) Rolfus Husk &#8211; her father &#8211; Edwin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prophet and Loss &#8211; synopsis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACT 1 Sc. 1: A coffee shop. Nessa is absorbed in her blackberry, conducting a business deal for Husk Inc. A waiter (Naya’il), a recent émigré, or an exchange student worker, interrupts her, wanting to practice his English. She fobs him off, and he clumsily drops a cup – at which point unearthly voices are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a Fog &#8211; Remember (2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[8&#8242; for SATB choir and piano Poems by Anne Pierson-Wiese Commissioned by the Grace and Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn, with a grant from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs to mark the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. fp Grace and Spiritus Chorale, c. James Busby. Friday 21 January 2011, Grace Church, Brooklyn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrieta: La conquista di Granata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CD review Mariola Cantarero (Zulema), Mariá José Suárez (Almeraya), Ana Ibarra (Isabel), José Bros (Gonzalo), David Rubiera (Boabdil), Ángel Ódena (Lara), Alastair Miles (Muley-Hassem), David Menéndez (Alamar)  r. live July 2006 Teatro Real, Madrid  Coro y Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid c. Jesús López Cobos Dynamic CDS 618/1-2 (2 discs 133 minutes) It is always instructive to find a work that lies at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giordano &amp; Mascagni: two operas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ CD review Marcella Giordano Serena Daolio (Marcella), Natalizia Carone (Clara), Angelica Girardi (Raimonda), Mara D’Antini (Eliana), Maria Rosa Rondinelli (Lea), Danilo Formaggio (Giorgio), Marcello Rosiello (Vernier), Pierluigi Dilengite (Drasco), Giovanni Coletta (Barthélemy), Graziano De Pace (Flament) )  Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, c. Manlio Benzi  Dynamic CDS 573 (64 minutes) Amica  Mascagni Anna Malavasi (Amica), Francesca De Giorgi (Magdelone), David Sotgiu (Giorgio), Pierluigi Dilengite (Rinaldo), Marcello Rosiello (MaÎtre Camoine)  Orchestra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.juliangrant.net/uncategorized/giordano-mascagni-two-operas/</link>
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		<title>Maconchy &#8211; two operas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CD review  The Sofa  Sarah Tynan (Monique), Alinka Kozári (Lucille), Anna Leese (Laura), Josephine Thorpe (Dominic’s Grandmother), Patricia Orr (Yolande), Nicholas Sharratt (Prince Dominic), Patrick Ashcroft (A Suitor), George von Bergen (Edward)  The Departure  Louise Poole (Julia), Håkan Vramsmo (Mark)  Chorus and Ensemble of Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells c. Dominic Wheeler Chandos CHAN 10508 (70 minutes) These brief one-acters, revived for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renee Fleming &#8211; Verismo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CD review  Renée Fleming with Saito Kaoru, Emma Latis, Lucia Mencaroni, Barbara Vignudelli (soprano), Annalisa Dessi (mezzo soprano), Paolo Cautoruccio, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Marco Calabrese, Carlos Gomez (baritone), Gilles Armani (bass)  Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Verdi c. Marco Armiliato  Arias from La Bohème (Leoncavallo and Puccini), Conchita, Fedora, Gloria, Iris, Lodoletta, Manon Lescaut, La [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.juliangrant.net/uncategorized/renee-fleming-verismo/</link>
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		<title>Chaliapin, the Enchanter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Film by Elisabeth Kapnist   NVC Arts 50 51865 211525 (58 minutes) One might have thought that Chaliapin would be a fascinating subject for a film biography, as there is much source material to choose from; his memoirs, dictated to his close friend Maxim Gorky, an extensive discography, some choice film footage and many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.juliangrant.net/uncategorized/chaliapin-the-enchanter-2/</link>
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		<title>Wolf-Ferrari: La vedova scaltra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CD review Anne-Lise Sollied (Rosaura), Elena Rossi (Marionette), Mark Milhofer (Il Conte di Bosco Nero), Emanuele D’Aguanno (Monsieur Le Bleau), Luca Favaron (Folletto), Maurizio Muraro (Milord Runebif), Antonio Casagrande (Un servo di Don Alvaro), Riccardo Zanellato (Don Alvaro di Castiglia), Alex Esposito (Arlecchino), Claudio Zancopè (Birif)   Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice, Venice c. Karl Martin Naxos 8.660225-6 (2 discs 142 [...]]]></description>
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