Podcast appearances and mentions of Stuart Skelton

Die Bayerische Staatsoper bringt am 6. März eine Neuproduktion von Benjamin Brittens "Peter Grimes" auf die Bühne. Stuart Skelton singt die Titelpartie, Edward Gardner dirigiert und der Regisseur Stefan Herheim gibt sein Hausdebüt.

Front Row announces the shortlist for the £15,000, 16th BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University. Judge Fiona Mozley, author of Booker-shortlisted novel Elmet, joins us live to discuss the stories Australian tenor Stuart Skelton is a fan of a party. And what bigger party in classical music than the Last Night of the Proms?! Stuart will be taking centre stage and singing the traditional ‘Rule Britannia' as well as a selection of opera arias. He tells John why he's looking forward to the event, and the all-important outfit reveal. This month Marvel Studios released its first film with an Asian lead – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. It's an origin story that brings together martial arts, Chinese folklore and Hollywood CGI spectacle. Cultural critic Yuan Ren reviews. 25 years since the release of The Spice Girls debut album, more recently the departure of Jesy Nelson from Little Mix saying she found “the constant pressure of being in a girl group and living up to expectations very hard." And this week, the announcement of the death of Girls Aloud member, Sarah Harding. Dr Julia Downes, who edited Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern, shares her thoughts on the girl band. Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Julian May

Í Víðsjá í dag verður meðal annars hugað að efnisskrá tónleika Sinfóníuhljómsveitar Íslands og rætt við ástralska tenórinn Stuart Skelton sem kemur fram með hljómsveitinni til að syngja Wesendonck ljóð Richards Wagners. Ólöf Gerður Sigfúsdóttir fjallar í sjónlistapistli um stóra og glæsilega ljósmyndasýningu Ragnars Axelssonar, Þar sem heimurinn bráðnar, sem nú stendur yfir í Hafnarhúsi Listasafns Reykjavíkur. Hugað verður að Grettis sögu sem er kvöldsagan að Rás 1 að þessu sinni. Fluttur er lestur Óskars Halldórssonar frá árinu 1981. Örnólfur Thorsson íslenskufræðingur og forsetaritari heimsækir Víðsjá í dag og ræðir um byggingu Grettis sögu. Og bók vikunnar á Rás eitt að þessu sinni er skáldsagan Aprílsólarkuldi eftir Elísabetu Jökulsdóttir sem fyrir mánuði hlaut Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin fyrir þetta verk. Hér er á ferðinni sjálfsævisöguleg skáldsaga um rússíbanareið áfalla sem leiðir inn í áfengis - og vímuefnaneyslu og að endingu til þess að aðalpersónan, Védís, missir stjórn á tilveru sinni. Í umsögn dómnefndar Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna sagði m.a. að höfundur sýni gott vald á skáldskaparforminu, sagan einkennist af ríku myndmáli og næmni í blæbrigaðríkum texta átakanlegrar sögu. Hlustendur heyra í Elísabetu í Víðsjá í dag.

Í Víðsjá í dag verður meðal annars hugað að efnisskrá tónleika Sinfóníuhljómsveitar Íslands og rætt við ástralska tenórinn Stuart Skelton sem kemur fram með hljómsveitinni til að syngja Wesendonck ljóð Richards Wagners. Ólöf Gerður Sigfúsdóttir fjallar í sjónlistapistli um stóra og glæsilega ljósmyndasýningu Ragnars Axelssonar, Þar sem heimurinn bráðnar, sem nú stendur yfir í Hafnarhúsi Listasafns Reykjavíkur. Hugað verður að Grettis sögu sem er kvöldsagan að Rás 1 að þessu sinni. Fluttur er lestur Óskars Halldórssonar frá árinu 1981. Örnólfur Thorsson íslenskufræðingur og forsetaritari heimsækir Víðsjá í dag og ræðir um byggingu Grettis sögu. Og bók vikunnar á Rás eitt að þessu sinni er skáldsagan Aprílsólarkuldi eftir Elísabetu Jökulsdóttir sem fyrir mánuði hlaut Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin fyrir þetta verk. Hér er á ferðinni sjálfsævisöguleg skáldsaga um rússíbanareið áfalla sem leiðir inn í áfengis - og vímuefnaneyslu og að endingu til þess að aðalpersónan, Védís, missir stjórn á tilveru sinni. Í umsögn dómnefndar Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna sagði m.a. að höfundur sýni gott vald á skáldskaparforminu, sagan einkennist af ríku myndmáli og næmni í blæbrigaðríkum texta átakanlegrar sögu. Hlustendur heyra í Elísabetu í Víðsjá í dag.

Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton joins the podcast to talk about his early introduction to opera, how he's made important decisions within his career, and how he brings the audience with him through some of the most dramatic stories in opera. From the Producer's Office is a series of informal podcasts with Opera Holland Park’s Director of Opera, James Clutton. In conversation with creatives and collaborators across the industry, we explore the process of putting opera on stage, and how the artists involved approach their craft.

Stefano Flavoni is joined by prolific Australian Heldentenor Stuart Skelton in a discussion of Wagner, Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler, Sibelius, and just how absurd 2020 has been, especially for artists. Stuart has appeared on the stages of The Met, La Scala, San Francisco Opera, and just about every other major opera company and symphony you could imagine. With signature roles including Peter Grimes and Siegmund, among many others, Stuart is a voice and human for the ages.

Efter en lång och mödosam startsträcka slog han igenom med Pomp and Circumstances. Men ärebetygelserna överlät han till sin fru. Låtlista: Salut D'amour (Op 12) - Catherine Manoukian, Stefan Solyom The Blue Bird - Paul Hillier Chamber Choir Of Ireland Variationer För Orkester Op 36: Nr 9, Nimrod - Andrew Litton, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Variationer För Orkester Op 36 - William Steinberg, Pittsburghs Symfoniorkester The Dream Of Gerontius (Op 38) - Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton, David Soar, Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Choir Konsert För Violoncell & Orkester Op 85 e-moll: Sats 1 - Jacqueline Du Pré, John Barbirolli, London Symphony Orchestra

Efter en lång och mödosam startsträcka slog han igenom med Pomp and Circumstances. Men ärebetygelserna överlät han till sin fru. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Låtlista: Salut D'amour (Op 12) - Catherine Manoukian, Stefan Solyom The Blue Bird - Paul Hillier Chamber Choir Of Ireland Variationer För Orkester Op 36: Nr 9, Nimrod - Andrew Litton, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Variationer För Orkester Op 36 - William Steinberg, Pittsburghs Symfoniorkester The Dream Of Gerontius (Op 38) - Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton, David Soar, Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Choir Konsert För Violoncell & Orkester Op 85 e-moll: Sats 1 - Jacqueline Du Pré, John Barbirolli, London Symphony Orchestra

The opera singer Stuart Skelton meets the comedian, actor and director Chris Addison. The tenor Stuart Skelton was born in Australia, and has appeared in leading opera houses and concert halls around the world. His most notable performances include the title role in Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten, and Tristan in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, with the conductor Sir Simon Rattle . He recently made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, playing Siegmund in Wagner’s Die Walkure. Chris Addison started out as a solo comedy performer and writer. He played Ollie, a hapless junior advisor, in Armando Iannucci’s political satire The Thick of It, and also appeared in the spin-off film In the Loop. He has directed numerous episodes of the Emmy award-winning comedy Veep, set in the office of the Vice President of the United States, and is familiar as a panellist on shows such as Mock the Week. Producer: Clare Walker

The acclaimed new Australian production of the musical Calamity Jane starring Virginia Gay continues to be performed for bigger and bigger audiences around Australia, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson leads us through an accent lesson, we welcome spring with a stroll through the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne to learn about its Shakespearian roots, and Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton returns to the role of Peter Grimes in Benjamin Britten's career-defining opera.

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is an extraordinary journey through the human psyche, and through the two most powerful forces guiding our lives: love and death. From the opening bars of the Prelude, the music draws us in with an intense and restless longing that doesn't loosen its grip until the final, transcendent moments of the opera.  This week on He Sang/She Sang, Merrin Lazyan speaks with writer Paul Thomason about the intoxicating magnetism of Tristan und Isolde, and tenor Stuart Skelton compares singing the role of Tristan to climbing the Himalayas.  Paul's YouTube pick (Kirsten Flagstad): Merrin's YouTube pick (Birgit Nilsson):  This episode features excerpts from the following album: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (EMI Classics, 2005)— Plácido Domingo, tenor; Nina Stemme, soprano; Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden conducted by Antonio Pappano

How did opera become an art form consumed today by millions of people globally on computer screens, in cinemas and on the radio? And how, in particular, did New York's Metropolitan Opera become one of the most iconic and powerful producers of this Old World export? Flora Willson traces the roots of today's phenomenon of opera in cinemas to the years 1890-1930, when New York emerged as a global operatic centre. The programme shows how the Met took the initiative in those decades, exploiting new developments in transatlantic travel, the recording industry and radio broadcasting. And Flora considers how today opera is bursting out of the plush velvet curtains and tapping into mass audiences everywhere by embracing the potential of new technologies. Today you can have the thrill of this extraordinary and overwhelming experience in the home, on the move and at the local cinema. This is a hefty counterpunch to the clichéd view that opera is a dead art form only consumed by the cultural elite. With contributions from Peter Gelb (General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera), Kasper Holten (outgoing Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House), Mark Schubin (Engineer-in-Charge at the Metropolitan Opera), Barrie Kosky (opera director), Stuart Skelton (tenor), Gundula Kreuzer (musicologist, Yale) and Ben Walton (musicologist, Cambridge).

I programmet diskuteras bl.a. Amanda Maiers Violinkonsert med Gregory Maytan o Helsingborgs symfoniorkester under Andreas Stoehr samt en DVD med Wagners Tristan och Isolde. Sofia möter András Schiff. I panelen Evabritt Selén, Niklas Lindblad och Tithi Hahn som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor: DIXIT Musik av Tromboncino, Jennefelt, De Rore och Monteverdi Ann-Kristin Jones, Jessica Bäcklund m.fl Vokalharmonin, Musica Vitae, Mats Bergström, gitarr Fredrik Malmberg, dirigent Naxos 8.572536GEORGE GERSHWIN Orkestermusik Harmonie Ensemble, New York Lincoln Mayorga, piano Steven Richman, dirigent Harmonia Mundi HMU 907658RICHARD WAGNER Tristan och Isolde Stephen Gould, Evelyn Herlitzius m.fl. Bayerska festspelens kör och orkester Christian Thielemann, dirigent DG 00440 073 5251 (DVD 2st)AMANDA MAIER Violinkonsert, Pianokvartett, Svenska melodier och danser Gregory Maytan, violin, Ann-Sofi Klingberg, piano m.fl.. Helsingborgs symfoniorkester Andreas Stoehr, dirigent dB Productions dBCD 174Sofia möter András Schiff Sofia Nyblom har träffat den ungerske pianisten och dirigenten  András Schiff för ett samtal på Grand hotell i Stockholm, under Schiffs gästspel i Stockholms konserthus både som dirigent och pianist i november. Andra i programmet nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar: Amanda Maiers Violinkonsert i Konserthuset play med Claudia Bonfiglioli, som solist, Kungliga filharmoniska orkestern, Stockholm, allt under Sakari Oramo. Wagners Tristan och Isolde med Birgit Nilsson som Isolde och Bayreuth-festspelens orkester under Karl Böhm på skivmärket Melodram; Nina Stemme som Isolde och Covent Garden-operans orkester ledda av Antonio Pappano på EMI samt med Margaret Price i rollen som Isolde, Dresdens Statskapell och dirigenten Carlos Kleiber på DG. Svepet Johan sveper över ett album med Arnold Schönbergs Gurre-Lieder framförda av solisterna Alwyn Mellor, Anna Larsson, Stuart Skelton och James Creswell m.fl. samt Bergens filharmoniker och körer allt under ledning av Edward Gardner. Inspelningen är gjord på skivmärket Chandos.

Tristan und Isolde opens the Met's 2016-17 season in a new production starring Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, conducted by Simon Rattle. In this episode, an insider's perspective on Wagner's towering drama, as Opera News Editor-in-Chief, F. Paul Driscoll, sits down with the Met's Assistant General Manager for Music Administration, John Fisher.

Violinisten och kontratenoren Dmitri Sinkovsky både sjunger och spelar Vivaldi, BBC:s kör och orkester framför musik av E. Elgar och Sofia Nyblom möter den georgiska violinisten Lisa Batiashvili. I panelen sitter Bengt Forsberg, David Björkman och Johanna Paulsson som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor:SINKOVSKY PLAYS AND SINGS VIVALDI De fyra årstiderna, Cessate omai cessate, kantat Dmitri Sinkovsky, violin, countertenor och dirigent La Voce Strumentale Naïve OP 30559EDWARD ELGAR Gerontius dröm, Sea Pictures Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton, David Soar BBCs Symfoniorkester och kör Andrew Davis, dirigent Chandos CHSA 5140SERGEJ PROKOFJEV ARAM CHATJATURIAN Pianokonserter Nareh Arghamanyan, piano Berlin-radions symfoniorkester Alain Altinoglu, dirigent Pentatone PTC 5186 510ANDRZEJ & ROXANNA PANUFNIK Stråkkvartetter nr 1, 2, 3 m.m. Brodsky-kvartetten Chandos CHAN 10839Sofia möter Lisa Batiashvili Sofia Nyblom träffade den georgiska violinisten Lisa Batiashvili under hennes Stockholms-besök i november då hon framträdde som solist i Sibelius violinkonsert tillsammans med Kungl filharmonikerna.Andra nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar- Andrzej Panufniks och Witold Lutoslawskis  stråkkvartetter som jämförelse med Tippett-kvartetten på Naxos. - Andrzej och Roxanna Panufniks musik på samma utgåva, solopianomusik inspelad på Bis. - Prokofjevs tredje pianokonsert med Martha Argerich tillsammans med Berlins filharmoniker och dirigenten Claudio Abbado på DG; Lang Lang och Berlins filharmoniker dirigerade av Simon Rattle på Sony; Alexander Thoradze tillsammans med Mariinsky-teaterns orkester ledda av Valerij Gergijev på Decca. - Chatjaturians pianokonsert med pianisten Alicia de Larrocha och Londons filharmoniker  under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos på Decca; Moura Lympany och Philharmonia Orchestra ledda av Walter Süsskind på Decca samt med William Kapell som solist tillsammans med Bostons symfoniorkester under ledning av Sergej Koussevitsky på Dutton. - Elgars The dream of Gerontius med solister och Londons symfoniorkester allt under Benjamin Britten på Decca; bl a tenoren Jon Vickers RAIs symfoniorkester, Rom dirigerade av John Barbirolli på skivmärket Archipel; bl a Janet Baker och Halléorkestern under John Barbirolli på EMI samt bl a tenoren Justin Lavender och Birminghams symfoniorkester ledda av Sakari Oramo på CBSO.

Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Rebecca von Lipinski talk to Sean Rafferty ahead of their appearance as Florestan and Leonore in a special performance of Beethoven's only opera Fidelio this Friday (8th May) with the BBC Philharmonic at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.

Sir Andrew Davis conducts an overwhelming performance of Elgar’s masterly oratorio, with Stuart Skelton, Sarah Connolly and David Soar as soloists. Find out more about the piece and hear clips from the recording in this podcast, presented by Oliver Condy and Rebecca Franks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A guide to Wagner's opera Parsifal featuring the voices of Wagner expert Nicholas Baragwaneth, conductor Mark Wigglesworth and singers Stuart Skelton and John Tomlinson