You may be forgiven for not having heard of soprano, Katharina Konradi. Brought up in the mountainous republic of Kyrgyzstan, Konradi left her homeland in Central Asia in her teens, to go and live in Germany. Since then her star has been steadily rising, in Europe mostly. Her successes in singing competitions has earned her…
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April Frederick and ESO Latest Recording Impresses
After performing Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs with English Symphony Orchestra in March of last year, soprano, April Frederick, went down with Covid. For a month she was unable to sing due to numbing fatigue. On the 26th July she returned to singing, recording Strauss’s magnificent songs on a new album called Visions of Childhood with ESO. This is an astonishingly…
The shudder that counts: ‘Salome’ at ENO
English National Opera’s 208/19 season opened with Richard Strauss’s dark and disturbing psycho-drama Salome in a visually striking and lyrically-sung new production.
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