Source: Resonance Ensemble
This Sunday Resonance Ensemble conducted by Tony Ryan will play the wonderfully inventive Courtly Dances from Gloriana as part of a programme titled Homelands.
In 1953 Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was premièred at London’s Royal Opera, Covent Garden, as part of the celebrations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The performance a few days after the coronation was attended by the Queen, Prince Philip, the Queen Mother, other members of the royal family and visiting foreign leaders.
The opera, set in the final days of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign, was the composer’s most significant critical failure, and was not staged again for several decades. However, revivals from the 1990s onwards have established it as one of his finest operas.
The concert also features Britten’s Matinées Musicales and Soirées Musicales, which comprise delightfully tongue-in-cheek arrangements of music by Rossini, as well as the lively and colourful Overture and Dances from Smetana’s Bartered Bride and Grieg’s ever-popular Peer Gynt Suite with its dramatic and spectacular In the Hall of the Mountain King.
All of the music in Homelands represents the artistic endeavours by composers to give their various countries a greater sense of national identity through their music, in this case England, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Norway.
Homelands is being presented at 3.00pm this Sunday (25 September) at The Piano on Armagh Street.
Tickets can be booked through Humanitix – https://events.humanitix.com/resonance-ensemble-homelands
Tickets are also available at the venue on Sunday from 2.00pm
