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Frederic Wake-Walker’s production for Glyndebourne on Tour adds video and even a new character to Beethoven’s opera

Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex is available to stream now thru July 18th. Stravinsky based his opera Oedipus Rex on the ancient Greek tragedy of the same name by Sophocles. Tour members watch it while enjoying an assortment of flaky Greek pastries, Ouzo, and retsina wine. The 1927 opera, Oedipus Rex, is a highly stylized, ritualistic work. In fact, the composer specifically requested that it be staged with minimal movement, which works well with COVID restrictions. Throughout the course of the opera, a narrator describes the action in English. Stravinsky set his work in Latin but specified ...

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Updated / Wednesday, 5 May 2021 14:15 We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Irish National Opera's new, five-part online Friday Opera Explorer series, now running on YouTube and Facebook, features a wide selection of arias from the historic opera repertoire together with five interviews with Irish composers - watch the first installment above. "The focus is on music new to INO's repertoir...

World class artists set to bring joy to Kilkenny hospital and care home residents Mobile Music Machine 'Covid Care Concerts' 2021 is here from next week Reporter: sam.matthews@kilkennypeople.ie The live ‘Covid Care Concerts’ feature everything from Bach to Beethoven and The Beatles to Abba, as well as traditional Irish music and more in-between ');  '); World class artists will bring joy and music to the residents of Kilkenny hospital settings and residential care homes next week as part of Mobile Music Machine’s ‘Covid Care Concerts’ series. The series, which starts on Apr...