Lyn Richards
Finale! Ending an Opera
The end of a novel or play or a musical composition is always a challenge. It has to arrive, to conclude a journey, bring together the...
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Lyn Richards
Mar 15, 20235 min read
Just a seaside bromance?
How can Bizet’s two best-known operas be so different – in so short a lifetime? Between the early, much criticised mythical and romantic...
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Lyn Richards
Feb 28, 20237 min read
Beauty, handsomeness, goodness: Billy Budd
The book (1891) In his novel Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), Herman Melville set – on the ocean of course – a story of evil...
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Lyn Richards
Feb 14, 20236 min read
A Whale of an Opera: Moby-Dick
From the book to the film, then to the opera. We’ve seen this pattern before but in the making of Moby-Dick, the journey has been...
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Lyn Richards
Jan 31, 20232 min read
It is, it is a glorious thing...
Yes, we start the new year of our Opera Course laughing. Specifically, by popular demand, at Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance....
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Lyn Richards
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Opera and the Ocean
Welcome to Tuning in to Opera, 2023! Why start our year with a term whose theme is not an opera composer or a cultural focus or a period...
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