🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3InConcert
Iain Bell, Charles Styles, Ruth Wilson, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Martyn Brabbins:
🎵 Beowulf
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My Guardian review of the world premiere of Iain Bell's Beowulf at the Barbican.
Some issues with balance hamper its impact, but it's wonderfully well played and sung by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and tenor Charles Styles under Martyn Brabbins, who is also in his element in Vaughan Williams's Job:-
You can hear it on BBC Radio 3 on 18 April
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🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Iain Bell, Adela Zaharia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Vasily Petrenko:
🎵 Aurora, concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra (extract)
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many press outlets have been hailing #NewYorkCityOpera's casting of #LizBouk in #MarkCampbell and #IainBell's #StonewallOpera as an example of How To Do #Trans Casting Right. it is EMPHATICALLY not: http://www.brinsolomon.com/blog/2019/6/25/city-operas-botched-trans-casting
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