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30 APRIL 2008

Performance (concert & recital)

• Two German reviews of the recent concert of Webern and Beethoven at the Berlin Philharmonie. No mention of soloists except that they were "worth hearing"

Performance (opera)

• More photos of Gerry's shirtless Don Giovanni at Covent Garden, 2003 (they just don't seem to have taken any with his shirt on - ah well...)
• Very nice photo of Gerry as Don Giovanni (scroll to bottom of page) , with Sam Ramey's Leporello, NY Met, 2005

Scrapbook

• Antonio Pappano's delight in the ROH Le nozze di Figaro from an article in the ROH in house magazine: "Figaro was so lucid, with a wonderful cast, and the particular intelligence of the relationship between the Count [Gerry] and Countess. It was a terrific endeavour, very inspired and tightly prepared."

 

 

 

29 APRIL 2008

Performance (concert & recital)

• First details of Gerry's recital, accompanied by Julius Drake, at the Wigmore, November 2002
• First details of Gerry's recital, accompanied by Stephen Ralls, at the Wigmore, November 2003
• First details of Gerry's recital, accompanied by Roger Vignoles, at Blythburgh Church, June 2001

 

 

 

28 APRIL 2008

Performance (concert & recital)

• A stunning set of reviews for Gerry's Wigmore Hall recital in December 2005: “An exemplary recital by one of the great singers of our time.” The Guardian

Performance (opera)

• Cosi fan tutte, Salzburg, 2004. A fine review from the Financial Times of the singers if not the production: "Salzburg has brought together six first-rate singers for Cosí fan tutte and then done its best to cripple their chances with a lame production"

Interviews

• I've changed the photo of Gerry in the Interviews menu to a rather lovely one in the 'blue shirt' series taken by Benjamin Ealovega
  

 

 

 

25 APRIL 2008

Performance (opera)

• Some new reviews in praise of Gerry's Count in the 2006 Le nozze di Figaro, Royal Opera House (from FT music choice, Seen & Heard &  Socialist Worker): " Covent Garden’s anniversary production could just as well have been called Le Nozze d’il Conte..."
• A brilliant review of Don Giovanni, NY Met 2005, from mondo-marion.com

CD / DVD

• You can now listen to samples from Gerry's CD of Duparc songs, along with Catherine Robbins and accompanied by Stephen Ralls, including the wonderful title song, L'invitation du voyage 

 

 

 

24 APRIL 2008

Performance (opera)

• lovely new reviews (Opera Canada and operajaponica.org) of L'amour de Loin, Santa Fe 2002, plus some new photos - esp for Trish
• Updates to L'anima del filosofo, Covent Garden 2001 (memorable for Gerry's Creonte) including a short review from Opera Canada
• Updates to Die Zauberfloete, NY Met 2000, including a report from the NY Times on Gerry's mid-performance, Bush-Gore, election quip

 

 

22 APRIL 2008

Back from Wozzecking around with Simon K

Performance (opera)

• Two marvellous review of Gerry's recent Eugene Onegin, both from the May edition of Opera

 

 

8 APRIL 2008

Performance (opera)

• Curtain call photos from last night's Onegin - sadly, Gerry is still a bit fuzzy (so to speak)
• Many thanks for sending this youtube link to the curtain call for Eugene Onegin from the first performance. 8 March 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He81ndyzO24

 

 

 

 

7 APRIL 2008

Performance (opera)

• Some curtain call photos from Friday's performance of Eugene Onegin at Covent Garden... Hopefully more to follow after tonight's final performance...

 

 

 

6 APRIL 2008

Performance (concert & recital)

This section now includes future performances, as does the Performance (opera) section

• Details of Gerry singing in Beethoven's 9th, Toronto, 1997
• Details of a recital, accompanied by cousin Brian Finley, in Ottawa 1997
• First details of Gerry singing Winterreise at St Mary's, Primrose Hill, London in 1994 (probably). Many thanks to Jean.
• First details of Gerry's Boston Symphony debut in Haydn's The Seasons, 1996

Please do let us know if you have further details of any of these concert by emailing webmaster@geraldfinley.info

 

5 APRIL 2008

Links

• A link to the official website of Jessica Rivera who played Kitty Oppenheimer in the recent run of Doctor Atomic

Schedule 2009

• First details of a recital by Gerry and Julius Drake at the Wigmore Hall in June 2009

Broadcast Schedule

• The Vaughan Williams Concert at the Brighton Dome in May, featuring Gerry singing a rarely heard arrangement of Songs of Travel, is to be recorded by BBC Radio 3

 

 

 

4 April 2008

Performance (opera)

• ... and another Onegin review (Mundoclassico): "Through his assured and nuanced vocal presence, it seemed unusually clear that it was his character, in all its terrifying ennui, that drives the plot; an ennui transformed by Act Three into his desperate passion for the woman - and the life - that he had once spurned."

 

 

 

31 MARCH 2008

Performance

• More reviews (Spectator, Camden New Journal, Time Out) of Eugene Onegin: "Finley.... made me take an interest in Onegin — anyway this Onegin — that I have never been able to before. It’s worth going for this great performance" ... "Gerald Finley, as Onegin, who is clearly capable of wooing the ladies and raising hell with just his eyebrows" [!]

CD / DVD

• Two more reviews (Musicalpointers.co.uk and the Times) of the newly released DVD of Le nozze di Figaro, recorded at ROH in 2006: "...it is Gerald Finley's frustrated, bullish and at times truly terrifying Count that is the enduring highlight."

 

 

 

26 MARCH 2008

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Gerry is still suffering from a chest infection and has had to withdraw from tonight's performance. Andrew Schroeder has stepped in and we wish him well. Hope you get better soon Mr Finley... 

CD / DVD

• Addition of the groundbreaking CD "Schubert's Friends and Contemporaries", one of the final CDs in the Hyperion complete set, with stunning reviews: "It may be invidious to do so but I feel I must single out Gerald Finley for special praise. His singing is consistently on the highest level of technical and interpretative accomplishment and all his performances here serve to boost still further his reputation as one of the most exciting and rewarding singers of his generation." Musicweb International. Can't say fairer than that!
• Also edition 34 in the Hyperion Schubert series in which Gerry performs a small (but not minor) role

 

 

23 MARCH 2008

Scrapbook

• Seen in The Times, 22 March 2008: Top Opera - EUGENE ONEGIN. A slightly less tepid revival of Stephen Pimlott’s drippy production - thanks to a scorching performance from Gerald Finley in the title role. JirÍ Belohlávek conducts.

 

 

22 MARCH 2008

Schedule (2009)

• Gerry's 2009 schedule information has been updated

Performance (opera)

• For the final scene in Eugene Onegin at ROH on 20 March, Gerry, who has been suffering from a bronchial infection, mime-acted while Mark Stone sang from the side. Many thanks to all who let me know and for their concern - get better soon Mr Finley

 

19 MARCH 2008

Video Clips

• New clips on YouTube of Gerry as the Count in Le nozze di Figaro, ROH 2006 - newly released on DVD. Many thanks Barbara (by the way, your email address isn't working!)

 

 

 

18 MARCH 2008

Performance (opera)

• Three reviews (translated by the team) of Gerry's wonderful concert performances as Athanaël to Renée Fleming's Thaïs, Paris 2007

 

 

 

17 MARCH 2008

Performance (opera)

• Another fabulous review (yesterday's Observer) of Gerry's Onegin. Thanks Petra!
• Several new reviews and some new photos from the recent Chicago run of Doctor Atomic. Thanks to several people (esp Robert)
• Some new photos from the World Premiere of Doctor Atomic, San Francisco, 2005 

 

 

 

15 MARCH 2008

Performance (opera)

• A delightful series of photos of Gerry in Die Zauberfloete, Amsterdam 1995

 

 

14 MARCH 2008

The search facility at the top righthand side of the banner is now working properly

Performance (opera)

• Two more wonderful reviews of Gerry's Eugene Onegin at the ROH: “…inescapably noble of bearing as well as focused of voice.” The Stage; “Gerald Finley establishes himself as the Onegin of choice with a performance of poise and vocal grace, as well as stage personality.” FT

 

 

13 MARCH 2008

CD / DVD

• Two fabulous reviews (Musicalcriticism.com and MusicOMH.com) of the new Le nozze di Figaro DVD, recorded at ROH in 2006: Both give a  rating

"Gerald Finley and Miah Persson provide the central axis of energy, the former always asserting authority with his elegant tone as the Count" Musicalcriticism 

"Top dog here is Gerald Finley, whose Count oozes suave, sadistic sexuality, as well as an aura of ominous, imposing power; the role could hardly be sung better either..." MusicOMH

 

 

12 MARCH 2008

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Gerry's Masterclass at the RCM scheduled for this afternoon, has been cancelled.

Performance (opera)

• Lots of wonderful reviews of the eponymous star of Eugene Onegin at ROH...
• ...and lots of photos by Clive Barda

 

 

11 MARCH

Performance (Opera)

• Fantastic assessment of Gerry's Onegin (and his legs) by Fiona Maddocks of the Evening Standard: "One remarkable performance, that of Gerald Finley in the title role, stood out..."
• We don't often link to blogs but I just couldn't resist this assessment of Gerry's magnificent Onegin fromthe Boulezian blog… http://boulezian.blogspot.com/2008/03/eugene-onegin-royal-opera-10-march-2008.html

  …And then there was Gerald Finley’s Onegin. His was a wonderful portrayal, encompassing gracelessness and gracefulness, withdrawal and sexual charisma, loyalty and betrayal. If Finley lacked the Slavic quality of Dmitri Hvorostovsky, his predecessor at Covent Garden, then Tchaikovsky is too big to be confined to national boundaries. Musically I do not think he could have been faulted, but the identification was such between musical and dramatic means, that the question only presented itself to me in retrospect. Score and performance gave the lie to a claim made in a programme note by Mark Fitzgerald, that that wonderful moment at which Onegin, now realising his complex predicament, reprises Tatyana’s music from the Letter Scene, suggests ‘a shallowness of character and a person unworthy of the attentions of the exalted Tatyana’. Where Fitzgerald discerned shallowness in the altered orchestration, Finley and Bělohlávek quite rightly identified something darker, more urgent, both in timbre and foreshortening. This was a powerful moment indeed, and may be counted as an intensification rather than an unworthy repetition of the original music. Such an understanding, it seems to me, penetrates to the heart of this fine Onegin.

 

 

10 MARCH 2008

Performance (opera)

• First review (Dominic McHugh of www.musicalcriticism.com) of the Saturday matinee of Eugene Onegin, where Gerry's eponymous portayal "...was by far the best reason to see this performance." Can't argue with that.
• Last year's ROH production of Pelleas et Melisande, starring Gerry as Golaud, has (somewhat controversially) won the award for Best New Production at last night's Olivier Awards - richly deserved by the quality of the performances if not for the staging. Gerry was pipped at the post for the Outstanding Achievement in Opera award by Natalie Dessay

Schedule

• Confirmation that Gerry will be in the ENO production of Doctor Atomic next year

 

 

9 MARCH 2008

Performance (opera)

• First photo of yesterday's magnificent Eugene Onegin (with thanks)

 

 

 

6 MARCH 2008

Performance (opera)

Click photo for details of Doctor Atomic, October / November 2008, New York Met

• New photo of the cast of Thais, Paris 2007

CD / DVD

• The DVD of Le nozze di Figaro featuring Gerry as Count Almaviva, recorded in January 2006 at the Royal Opera House, has now been released. Click photo for details:

 

 

5 MARCH 2008

Schedule 2008

• Details, including dates, of Doctor Atomic at the New York Met in October and November 2008
• Details of three concerts with Gerry accompanied by Angela Hewitt at the Trasimeno Festival: Mozart and Rossini in Gubbio, Bach in Perugia, Dichterliebe in Magione

Performance (opera)

• Some new photos and two more marvellous reviews (Opera, Seen & Heard) of Gerry as Harry Heegan in Turnage's The Silver Tassie, 2000, a role that won him the Royal Philharmonic Society award for best singer

 

 

2 MARCH 2008

Performance (opera)

• Review of Gerry as Don Giovanni, Rome 2006

 

 

29 FEBRUARY 2008

Performance (opera)

• What Marina Poplavskaya (Tatyana) thinks of Gerry as her Onegin in the forthcoming production at ROH, from an interview with musicalcriticism.com

 

 

27 FEBRUARY 2008

Performance (concert & recital)

• Details of three performances at the Westben Festival, Ontario: the opening gala in 2000; concert 2001; concert 2003
• Details of a 1997 prom performance of Bach's Mass in B-minor

CD / DVD

• A superb review (Scena Musicale) of the 2006 Haitink recording of Beethoven's 9th: "Canadian baritone Gerald Finley is outstanding...."

 

 

26 FEBRUARY 2008

Broadcast schedule

• BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting the Vaughan Williams Anniversary Concert performed in Brighton, 11 May 2008

CD / DVD

• Another excellent review (the Guardian) of Romanzo di Central Park: "Finley and Drake establish these songs, with all their quirks and flights of fantasy, among the most important of the 20th century in any language."

 

 

22 FEBRUARY 2008

Interviews

• An interview from 1998 in La Scena Musicale "Canadians Abroad"

Schedule

• Gerry will sing his first Hans Sachs at Glyndebourne in 2011, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski, directed by Christof Loy (Source: Opera magazine, March 2008)

CD / DVD

• Another great review (Sunday Times) of Romanzo di Central Park. Thanks Gwyn
• The DVD of Covent Garden's Le nozze di Figaro, featuring Gerry as the Count and due for release on 3 March 2008, is now available to pre-order through Amazon.uk

 

 

 

15 FEBRUARY 2008

Performance (concert & recital)

• First details of a performance of Handel's Messiah in Ottawa, 2001. If you have further details please let us know by emailing webmaster@geraldfinley.info

Interviews

• The Interview section has been altered to make it easier to follow...
• An interview in Opera Canada, 2001

CD / DVD

• Gramophone review of Rinaldo, the CD that won the Editor's Choice Gramophone award in 2001 "...the casting of Gerald Finley, too, was a stroke of genius."

 

 

14 FEBRUARY 2008

CD / DVD

• A stunning review (5 out of 5 for performance and for sound) of Romanzo di Central Park from the March issue of BBC Music Magazine, and a mention in the Times as one of the best CDs of 2008

 

 

12 FEBRUARY 2008

CD / DVD

• Another first class review (Opus magazine) of the recently released Songs of Barber CD by Gerry with Julius Drake at the piano, reaffirming "...their reputation as one of the most important singer-pianist duos in front of the public today."
• ...and the full "Editor's Choice" Gramophone review of the Barber Songs CD. Thanks Gwyn

 

 

 

11 FEBRUARY 2008

Interviews

• A very brief Q and A interview about the Songs of Barber CD with Gramophone, January 2008

CD / DVD

• Several more glowing reviews (La Scena Musicale, Classics Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Globe) of Gerry's CD the Songs of Samuel Barber: “Finley has a beautiful instrument, backed by solid technique, dramatic commitment, and superb musicianship. He is perfectly suited to these songs.”

 

 

 

10 FEBRUARY 2008

Performance (concert & recital)

• Details of Haydn's Creation in Rome, 2003, plus a review in Italian

Biography

• The biography section has been re-vamped

 

 

 

8 FEBRUARY 2008

CD / DVD

• Wonderful review from The Times of the newly released Turnage CD featuring Gerry's The Torn Fields, which "...triumphantly showcases Gerald Finley's chameleonic way with emotions."

 

 

 

7 FEBRUARY 2008

Scrapbook

• From http://www.geraldfinley.com/, 7 February 2008. Laurence Olivier Award Nomination!
  
  "Following Gerald Finley's double Juno Award nomination earlier this week, we are thrilled to announce that he has now been nominated for the award for 'Outstanding Achievement In Opera' at the 2008 Laurence Olivier Awards. Gerald has been nominated for his performance as Golaud in PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The production has also been nominated in the 'Best New Opera Production' category. The winners of the 2008 Laurence Olivier Awards will be announced at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel on March 9, 2008."

 

 

 

6 FEBRUARY 2008

Scrapbook

• From http://www.geraldfinley.com/, 6 February 2008: Double Juno Awards Nomination!! "We are delighted to announce that Gerald has been nominated for two awards at the 2008 Canadian Juno Awards. In the 'Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance' category both 'Songs by Samuel Barber' (Hyperion) and 'Schubert Among Friends' (Marquis Classics) have been nominated. The Awards ceremony will take place in Calgary on Saturday April 5th and broadcast on Sunday April 6th."

Performance (opera)

• The ENO re-opening gala in 2004, where Gerry appeared as Chou En-lai in a scene from John Adams' Nixon in China, has been moved from the concert pages to the opera pages, and more details and reviews have been added
• An early review (Opera News) of Gerry as Figaro in the 1993 production of Le nozze di Figaro for the Canadian Opera Company

CD / DVD

• First review (the FT) of the new Turnage recording which includes "the excellent Gerald Finley" singing The Torn Fields

 

 

 

5 FEBRUARY 2008

CD / DVD

• Another fine review (Opera News) of Songs by Samuel Barber

Performance (opera)

• More details and a new photo of Gerry as Papageno, Chicago 2002
• More details and a review (French) of Gerry as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Paris 1998
• More details of Gerry's debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago: Capriccio, 1994

 

 

 

4 FEBRUARY 2008

Performance (opera)

• It is now possible to flick through from opera to opera, starting with Albert Herring
• Details of a two runs of Giulio Cesare by ROH during their refurbishment: at the Barbican, 1997 (with photo) and Shaftebury Theatre, 1998
• Details and a review of Gerry's house debut for Lyric Opera of Chicago, as the Count in Capriccio, 1994
• A photo of Gerry as Figaro for Los Angeles Opera in 1994. If you have further details please let me know by emailing webmaster@geraldfinley.info
• Details and a stunning review of Gerry as the Pilgrim in Vaughan Williams' Pilgrim's Progress, Royal Opera, 1997
• First details of Gerry's Bottom (so to speak) in Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream, 1986, and Demetrius in 1991, Aix en Provence

 

 

 

2 FEBRUARY 2008

Performance (concert & recital)

• A fine review (classicalsource.com) of the recent Dream of Gerontius in Boston: "The elegant Gerald Finley sang the music of the Priest with commanding power and the litany of the Angel of the Agony with reverential intensity."

CD / DVD

• Gerry's Romanzo di Central Park CD of Ives songs has another rave review (today's Telegraph), short but sweet

 

 

 

1 FEBRUARY 2008

Interviews

• Interview for the Toronto Star, March 2007 in advance of his recital tour with Julius Drake 
• Interview for the Ottawa Citizen, September 2007, prior to his appearance at a fundraising concert for St Matthew's Church, Ottawa

CD / DVD

• Some more great reviews (Opera News and Musicweb.com) of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas CD from 1998. Also a couple of music samples of Gerry's Aeneas to listen to.
• Equally lovely reviews of Die Zauberfloete CD from 1996, plus details and a review of the video of this production filmed at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam - it's a semi-staged performance, and the video is hard to get hold of, but it's a corker!

 

 

 

31 JANUARY 2008

Performance (concert)

• A review of the recent Dream of Gerontius in Boston, from The Phoenix

Interviews

• An interview in the January issue of Opera News where Gerry talks about his CD of Barber Songs and the role of Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams's Doctor Atomic. Many thanks to Robert and John.

 

 

 

30 JANUARY 2008

******************** HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR FINLEY ************************

 

 

 

27 JANUARY 2008

CD / DVD

• Another five out of five star review (musicalcriticism.com) for Gerry and Juilus Drake's Romanzo di Central Park CD of Ives songs

 

 

 

26 JANUARY 2008

Performance (concert and recital)

• Another early one: Gerry's appearance in 1988 in the original performance of Missa del Cid by Judith Weir.

Performance (opera)

• A correction to Gerry's appearance at the Nederlandse Opera as Count Almiviva in 2001: He was in the June, July cast and not the January cast. 
• First details of Gerry's Count in Le nozze di Figaro, Gstaad, 2001. Please do let us know if you have further details by emailing webmaster@geraldfinley.info

CD / DVD

• Five out of five stars from the Times ("This is a must-buy album") for Gerry and Juilus Drake's Romanzo di Central Park CD of Ives songs

 

 

 

25 JANUARY 2008

Links

• Have just realised that there was no link to the forum for discussion of Gerry's performances and recordings, http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/fansofgeraldfinley/ (sorry John)

Performance (concert & recital)

• First excellent review of yesterday's Dream of Gerontius in Boston
• Another early performance while Gerry spent time with the Britten-Pears School: St Matthew Passion, Aldeburgh 1986

Schedule 2008

• More cast details of the New York Met premiere of Doctor Atomic later this year. Thanks Petra
• Also thanks to Petra for details of Pelleas et Melisande in the New York Met's 2010-2011 season.

 

 

24 JANUARY 2008

Performance (opera)

• Details of two very early performances: Gerry as Garibaldo in Händel's Rodelinda, Aldeburgh 1985 and as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Aldeburgh 1986

CD / DVD

• Gerry's second CD of Ives songs is now available to pre-order on Amazon - it is released on Monday 28 January. Click here for details: Romanzo di Central Park CD
• The first (short but excellent) review of Romanzo di Central Park CD which "more than fulfills the promise of the first volume"

 

 

 

23 JANUARY 2008

CD / DVD

• The marvellous news that the first DVD to be released by the new ROH recording label, Opus Arte, will be the McVicar production of Le nozze di Figaro from January 2006, starring Gerry as Il Conte di Almaviva. Many thanks indeed to http://www.musicalcriticism.com for letting us know. Click the photo below for details

Performance (opera)

• Details of two of Gerry's first performances, St Matthew Passion, 1981, and a concert for Cambridge University Music Society, 1983

 

 

 

22 JANUARY 2008

Performance (opera)

• A correction to one of the Don Giovanni productions: A semi-staged Don Giovanni was performed in June 2006 at the splendid Bartók Concert Hall, Budapest, rather than at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, as originally thought (it took place in the middle of the staged productions in Vienna and with the same cast, hence the confusion).

Broadcast schedule

• There will be two broadcasts of The Dream of Gerontius from Boston Symphony Hall, which is being performed 24, 25 and 26 January: see Broadcast Schedule for details of how to listen over the internet. Many thanks to the new fansofgeraldfinley chat site for the news http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/fansofgeraldfinley/

 

 

 

18 JANUARY 2008

CD / DVD

• The premiere recording of Turnage's The Torn Fields is to be released in February 2008. Click here for details

Performance (concert & recital)

• First details of Gerry's debut recital in New York, 2000
• Details, articles and reviews of Gerry singing Turnage's The Torn Fields in Berlin 2002 (world premiere), Birmingham 2004 (UK premiere) and at the Barbican 2004 (London premiere)

Interviews

• An interview with Hilary Finch for the Times, September 2004

 

 

 

17 JANUARY 2008

Performance (opera)

• An article from the New York Times plus two reviews (NY Times and Seen & Heard) of the Santa Fe production of L'amour de Loin, 2002

Performance (concert & recital)

• Two more fine reviews (both from the FT) of the premiere of Turnage's When I Awoke, 2004

Schedule 2008

• More details of Gerry's Songs of Travel concerts in Brighton and Prague, May 2008

 

 

16 JANUARY 2008

Performance (concert & recital)

• A concert featuring Gerry and Louise Winter singing songs from Broadway, Tunbridge Wells, 2004

Performance (opera)

• A concert performance of Boris Godunov, featuring Gerry as Rangoni, for the 1998 Brighton Festival

 

 

 

15 JANUARY 2008

CD / DVD

• Two more tremendous reviews of the DVD Owen Wingrave with Gerry in the title role
• Reviews of The Songs of Frank Bridge CD, 1997

Schedule 2008

• Two performances of Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel in May 2008, Brighton and Prague.

 

 

 

12 JANUARY 2008

CD / DVD

• You can now hear music samples of Britten's War Requiem from Gerry's CD
• A marvellous review from Opera News of Gerry's CD Britten's War Requiem

Performance (concert & recital)

• Details and glowing reviews of Gerry's performance of Bach's "Cantatas for the Second Sunday after Epiphany" at the Greenwich Naval College, January 2000. This was recorded for the following CD...

CD / DVD

• The information for Gerry's Bach Cantata CD has been updated, and some wonderful reviews added

 

 

11 JANUARY 2008

Performance (opera)

• A glowing review from Opera magazine of Gerry's magnificent debut as Eugene Onegin, ENO 2005
• Two more Don Giovanni productions (you can never have too many): Prague 2006 and a semi-staged version from Vienna 2006 (with photos)
• Two great reviews, both from the Independent, of The Cunning Little Vixen, Covent Garden 2003: "...no one, can outsing or outact the ever wonderful Gerald Finley..."

 

 

8 JANUARY 2008

Performance (opera)

• First details of Gerry as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at the Opera Bastille, 1998. Please do let us know if you have any further details

 

 

7 JANUARY 2008

Performance (opera)

• Photo of Gerry as Marcello (and Carlo Ventre as Rudolfo) in a 1996 tour of La Bohème by the WNO. Please, if you have further details of this production, do let us know by emailing webmaster@geraldfinley.info

Interviews

• Major interview with Opera magazine, June 2005

 

 

 

5 JANUARY 2008

Performance (opera)

• New photo of Gerry as Agamemnon and Clive Bayley as Calchas in Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide, ROH 2002. Many thanks Lucy
• An early photo: Gerry as Papageno in the 1990 production of Die Zauberfloete for Glyndebourne Touring Opera (thanks again Lucy)

CD / DVD

• Another splendid review (Telegraph) of Songs by Samuel Barber CD sung by the "indefatigable Gerald Finley"

Scrapbook

• A nice quote about GF from Julius Drake from an interview with this month's Opera News (thanks John), plus a photo of the two men enjoying a break from their north American recital tour last year (courtesy of www.geraldfinley.com).
• ...and from Opera News 2003, an excerpt from "Songs for low voices: an up-close look at the virtues and vices of nine top lieder baritones" including Gerry

 

 

4 JANUARY 2008

CD / DVD

• The first review of the CD of Foulds' A World Requiem (The Guardian). "The baritone Gerald Finley has the biggest workload and does it outstandingly well, with exemplary clarity (not always a big plus with this text) and dramatic presence."

 

 

3 JANUARY 2008

Performance (opera)

• Details of L'amour de loin from various venues, with Gerry as Jaufré Rudel de Blaye, have been updated and reviews & photos added
• A couple more Don Giovanni photos from the Met production in 2005
• Details of Iphigenie en Aulide, 2002 at Glyndebourne, featuring Gerry as an hirsute Agamemnon, have been updated and several new reviews added (IHT, Independent, Opera News)
• Review from Opera News of L'anima del filosofo, 2001 at the ROH

Broadcast Schedule

• Wednesday 9 January 2008. Classic FM Evening Concert, 9:00 to 12:00 midnight, includes Mozart's Requiem conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and featuring Christine Schäfer, Bernarda Fink, Kurt Streit, Gerald Finley, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien. Recorded live in Vienna, 2003 and released as a CD in November 2004

CD / DVD

• The CD of Foulds' A World Requiem is now available to buy. It is possible to download a pdf copy of the booklet through Chandos - see the link at the bottom of our World Requiem page

Scrapbook

• A couple of items for the scrapbook: Gerry's Barber CD as one of Musicalcriticism.com's top 12 recordings, and a couple of items from Rupert Christiansen's Review of 2007 for the Telegraph

 

 

 

1 JANUARY 2008

HAPPY NEW YEAR

To all of our readers and contributors, and to all performers who keep us entertained throughout the year

Performance (opera)

• Another fine review (Financial Times) of the current run of Doctor Atomic

CD / DVD

• High praise for Gerry's CD 'Songs by Samuel Barber': chosen as Gramophone Disc of the Month, January 2008, and one of the top 12 discs of 2007 by musicalcriticism.com who also gave it 5 out of five stars. 
• The December newsletter from Chandos confirms that Foulds' "A World Requiem" will be released in January 2008 - it is their Disc of the Month
• More excellent reviews of Bach's Christmas Oratorio

 

20 DECEMBER 2007

Broadcast Schedule

• Wednesday 26 December 2007. BBC Radio 3 at the end of “Afternoon on 3” (which runs from 1-5pm): Cantatas 1-3 of Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium from Gerry's new CD. Highly recommended

 

Video/Audio clips

• A video clip of Doctor Atomic courtesy of the Chicago Tribune

 

Performance (opera)

• Glowing review of the current Doctor Atomic from the Chicago Tribune

 

CD / DVD

• Wonderful review from the Münchner Merkur of Gerry's recently released CD of Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium: “Above all it’s Finley who sings overwhelmingly, you won’t hear these numbers better on record”. Many thanks to Uschi for her translation

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