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Die Fledermaus
C: Sergio Alapont
Aktoreak: Ailish TynanSergio AlapontAilish TynanAilish Tynan
Ulster Orchestra's Viennese whirl gets year off to great start

The Ulster Orchestra's first concert of 2020 was a sell-out at the Waterfront Hall with music from 'A Night In Vienna' to mark the New Year. It was a challenge to transform a winter night in Belfast to a Viennese extravaganza of music by the Strauss family and others, but the orchestra, under charismatic Spanish conductor Sergio Alapont (first time in Belfast) managed to achieve this with aplomb.

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06 urtarrila 2020www.belfasttelegraph.co.ukAlf McCreary
Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2
C: Daniele Rustioni
Aktoreak: Emma MorwoodRobin TritschlerBen McAteer
The last unashamedly happy masterpiece: Haydn’s The Creation, at Ulster Hall, reviewed

Haydn’s The Creation is Paradise Lost without the Lost. True, the words aren’t exactly up there: translated into German by Haydn’s pal Baron van Swieten and subsequently retro-translated into some of the clumsiest, most endearingly rococo English ever set to music. But you get the idea. Near the start some demons get consigned (very efficiently) to the outer darkness, and at the end the angel Uriel gives Adam and Eve the briefest of warnings – despatched in a brisk recitative before the chorus of angels floods the heavens, once more, with sunlight and praise. Basically, though, it’s optimism. It’s freshness. It’s a universe founded on faith, and with it, joy.

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22 apirila 2023www.spectator.co.ukRichard Bratby
Fantasia on Christmas Carols IRV 20
C: Barry Wordsworth
Aktoreak: Hugh MackeyRichard Baker
"A Rich Musical Plum Pudding"

"Equally confident and successful here was the Belfast-born baritone soloist, Hugh Mackey, who displayed an excellent and well schooled voice in a performance of great style and marked sensitivity and sincerity"

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21 abendua 1988www.belfasttelegraph.co.ukRathcol

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