Notable debuts and established names spotlight The Grange Festival\u2019s 2023 season The Grange Festival presents new productions of\u00a0Cos\u00ec<\/i>\u00a0fan\u00a0tutte<\/i>,\u00a0Orfeo ed Euridice<\/i>\u00a0\/ Dido and Aeneas<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Queen of Spades,<\/i>\u00a0adopted by two nights of jazz celebrating the music of jazz legend Duke Ellington<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n \u2018Quality and courage. With two excellent productions <\/i>[Macbeth and Tamerlano], The Grange Festival confirms its excellence and uniqueness amongst European summer<\/i> festivals.\u2019 Musica<\/em>, September 2022 Since its inception in 2017, The Grange Festival<\/strong> has swiftly developed a fame as a vacation spot venue for excellent singers, top-notch conductors, world-class productions and discerning audiences \u2013 and the 2023 season<\/strong> is about to boost its standing amongst the cognoscenti even larger.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Festival\u2019s\u00a0persevering with perception in presenting a large repertoire sees 4 new productions (Cos\u00ec<\/i>\u00a0fan\u00a0tutte<\/i><\/strong>,\u00a0Orfeo ed Euridice<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0\/ Dido and Aeneas<\/strong><\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Queen of Spades<\/i><\/strong>) by daring inventive groups, with a formidable mix of younger, proficient singers and established names, notably Dame Josephine Barstow<\/strong> because the Countess in\u00a0The Queen of Spades.<\/i>\u00a0Three nice conductors \u2013 Kirill\u00a0Karabits<\/strong>, Harry Christophers<\/strong> and Paul Daniel<\/strong> \u2013 be certain that the customary musical requirements stay as distinctive as ever. In addition to the Bournemouth Symphony<\/strong> (The Festival\u2019s resident orchestra), the season sees the welcome return of The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra<\/strong>. And in true Grange Festival fashion, the season finishes with a flourish with two not-to-be-missed evenings of jazz celebrating the extraordinary musical journey of the legendary American pianist and composer Duke Ellington<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Continuing its cycle of operas by Mozart, the 2023 season opens with a brand new manufacturing of the composer\u2019s much-loved\u00a0Cos\u00ec<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0fan\u00a0tutte<\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>(8 to 24 June<\/strong>), with a forged of established\u00a0Mozartians\u00a0because the star-crossed lovers. Soprano Samantha Clarke, a memorable\u00a0Tytania\u00a0in\u00a0A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u00a0<\/i>in 2021, sings the function of\u00a0Fiordiligi\u00a0with mezzo-soprano Kitty\u00a0Whately, a\u00a0Festival\u00a0favorite, as her sister\u00a0Dorabella. Baritone Nicholas Lester, whose appearances with The Grange embody Ford (Falstaff<\/i>) and\u00a0Lescaut\u00a0(Manon\u00a0Lescaut<\/i>), returns as Guglielmo, while tenor Alessandro Fisher, winner of the 2016 Kathleen Ferrier Award, sings the function of\u00a0Ferrando. Having each appeared on the Festival in\u00a0La\u00a0Cenerentola\u00a0<\/i>in 2021, Carolina Lippo now returns as Despina and Christian\u00a0Senn, famend as a Mozart interpreter, takes the function of the puppet grasp Don Alfonso. Ukrainian conductor Kirill\u00a0Karabits, Chief Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, makes his\u00a0Festival\u00a0debut on this new manufacturing by director Martin Lloyd-Evans and designer Dick Bird, whose earlier collaboration for The Grange was\u00a0Mansfield Park<\/i>\u00a0in 2017.<\/p>\n In a uncommon and dramatically contrasting pairing, The Grange Festival presents\u00a0an attractive early music double-bill: Gluck\u2019s intensely shifting\u00a0Orfeo ed Euridice<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0along with the primary English opera, Purcell\u2019s\u00a0Dido and Aeneas<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0(9 to twenty-eight June).<\/strong>\u00a0Returning to The Grange after their much-lauded collaboration on\u00a0Belshazzar<\/i>\u00a0in 2019 and\u00a0Tamerlano<\/i>\u00a0in 2022, is the inventive crew of Daniel Slater (director) and Robert Innes Hopkins (designer). Tim Claydon, who additionally labored on\u00a0Belshazzar<\/i>, is the motion director.\u00a0In\u00a0Orfeo ed Euridice<\/i>, Heather Lowe, a Samling Scholar beforehand heard at The Grange in 2021 as Angelina (La\u00a0Cenerentola<\/i>), sings Orfeo, while Sophie Bevan (Asteria in\u00a0Tamerlano<\/i>) returns as Euridice and Alexandra\u00a0Oomens, a Harewood Artist with ENO, makes her competition debut as\u00a0Amore. All three singers additionally seem in\u00a0Dido and Aeneas<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Heather Lowe as Dido, Sophie Bevan as\u00a0Belinda\u00a0and Alexandra\u00a0Oomens\u00a0as 2nd Woman. They are joined by two rising stars additionally making their debuts with The Grange \u2013 James Newby as Aeneas and Helen Charlston as\u00a0Sorceress\/Spirit.\u00a0This stellar forged is accompanied by the Choir and Orchestra of The Sixteen below their founding director Harry Christophers, making a welcome return to The Grange after their triumphant rendition of\u00a0Belshazzar<\/i>.<\/p>\n The fourth new manufacturing of the season \u2013 Tchaikovsky\u2019s dramatic opera\u00a0The Queen of Spades<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/i>based mostly on Pushkin\u2019s quick story \u2013 will probably be created by Paul Curran (who directed the magical\u00a0A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/i>\u00a0in 2021) and designer Gary McCann, and carried out by Paul Daniel in his debut at The Grange Festival (23 June to 2 July<\/strong>).\u00a0A robust worldwide forged is led by Ukrainian tenor Eduard\u00a0Martynyuk\u00a0within the demanding central function of Herman, with the acclaimed Armenian soprano\u00a0Anush\u00a0Hovhannisyan, a former\u00a0Jette\u00a0Parker Artist, as his\u00a0love curiosity Liza.\u00a0A second Ukrainian, baritone Andrei\u00a0Kymach, winner of the distinguished Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2019, makes\u00a0his Festival debut\u00a0as Count Tomsky alongside\u00a0Russian baritone Ilya\u00a0Kutyukhin\u00a0as Prince\u00a0Yeletsky\u00a0and British bass Edwin Kaye as\u00a0Surin. Returning to the Festival are British tenor\u00a0David Webb as\u00a0Chekalinsky, Christopher Gillett as\u00a0Chaplitsky\u00a0\/ Master of Ceremonies and Lucy\u00a0Schaufer\u00a0as Governess.\u00a0<\/span>Claire Barnett-Jones, winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize on the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2021, sings the function of Polina. The line-up is accomplished with the dream casting of Dame Josephine Barstow because the Countess.<\/p>\n Following the massive success of its first foray into jazz in 2022, The Grange Festival will shut its 2023 season with\u00a0Ellington: From Stride to Strings<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0two nights in celebration of the extraordinary musical lifetime of Duke Ellington,\u00a0one of many jazz world\u2019s most ground-breaking composers (30 June, 1 July<\/strong>). The evolution of Ellington\u2019s music will probably be reimagined by a sextet of virtuoso musicians led by famend trumpeter Dominick\u00a0Farinacci, that includes iconic numbers resembling\u00a0Mood Indigo<\/i>,\u00a0Satin\u00a0Doll<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Take the A Train<\/i>. These six musicians will then be joined by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra opening the second half of the night with\u00a0New World\u00a0<\/i>A-C<\/span><\/i>omin<\/i>\u2018<\/i>, that includes virtuoso pianist Mathis Picard. This will probably be adopted by two specifically commissioned works by Ethan Iverson, a composer and pianist identified for his daring re-imaginings of acquainted works:\u00a0A Duke Ellington Symphonic Fantasy<\/i>\u00a0and a high-energy association for orchestra and jazz sextet of the long-lasting\u00a0C Jam Blues<\/i>.<\/p>\n Artistic Director Michael Chance<\/strong> feedback: \u2018Our 2023 festival is full of memorable music. \u00a0Whether it is Orpheus singing of his deep loss, or Dido lamenting before her death, or the two unsuspecting young women wishing their fianc\u00e9es a calm voyage away from Naples, or Prince Yeletsky\u2019s highly effective aria, these are all a lot anticipated operatic moments. And then we offer you Duke Ellington. My expectations are excessive<\/em>.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n
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