“Platée has an exuberance in the music that is so exciting and so compelling.” Ahead of her production of Rameau’s Platée this summer, director Louisa Muller gives us some insight into this lesser-known work, with some teasers of her interpretation, her key sources of inspiration, and a whistle-stop tour of the plot! Platée runs from Wednesday 29 May – Sunday 30 June 2024: www.garsingtonopera.org/whats-on/platee
On Saturday 24th February 2024 at 5pm Rochester Cathedral Rochester Choral Society, King’s School Rochester Senior Choir, Rochester Cathedral Choir
“Samuel Boden’s contribution was delightfully perky.”Planet Hugill – 28 September 2023
After a break of a couple of years, it was a great pleasure to work with the cast of Lessons In Love And Violence again, under the baton of Sir George himself, on a piece that is very close to my heart. Having done about 40 fully-staged performances of Lessons, from Covent Garden to the Liceu in Barcelona, it was a challenge to be doing four concert performances of the piece, but a luxury to be with the wonderful Mahler Chamber Orchestra, for whom Written On Skin, George’s previous opera, was originally composed. Performances took place in Dortmund, Cologne, Essen...
Next week I will be travelling to Antwerp to perform Henry Purcell’s The Indian Queen, under the directorship of Guy Cassiers, with Emmanuelle Haïm conducting. Here is a trailer from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen:
“Boden negotiated the protagonist’s haute-contre utterances with seamless elegance and sensitivity … “Opera, November 2022 “Samuel Boden gave a mesmerising vocal performance in the title role … “Opera Scene, 5 September 2022 “Samuel Boden’s Orphée negotiates his aerial line … with unfailing elegance and sensitivity … “The Stage, 5 September 2022 “Samuel Boden plays Orphée… my how he can act. His anguish at the death of Euridice is palpable; his disconsolation is abject as her body is carried off … Musically, the role of Orphée is demanding. Charpentier calls for an haut-contre voice … Boden rises magnificently to this challenge, taking his tenor high without the...
