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Victorian
Opera Northwest (VONW) was formed to promote and perform
the excellent
music found in the operas and operettas
of forgotten 19th Century British and
Irish composers, music
that was extremely popular and well-known in its
day but that has been
largely ignored for many years since.
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Interested
in singing in VONW's
next project recording
Macfarren's Robin
Hood? Please
contact
us for details and
scores.
The CD
set of Wallace’s Lurline will
be available in Spring 2010. Details
will be posted here as soon as dates
are confirmed.
Here
is an excerpt from
"The
Old House by the Lindens" from VONW's recent CD of Balfe Songs
and Arias.
Chandos
have released is a new recording
of Sullivan's Ivanhoe,
see here
for details.
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Composers such as Balfe, Barnett,
Benedict, Goring Thomas, Loder, Macfarren, Mackenzie,
Sullivan, Wallace and others have left a legacy
of splendid works that share good melody and orchestration
and are well worth exploring.
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research contemporary sources, typeset fresh band
parts taken from original manuscripts, and print
facsimile vocal scores to enable us to provide benchmark,
première recordings for the collector. We
are grateful for and rely on the contributions from
sponsors who make this possible. Our musicians and
singers from the Cheshire and Manchester area invite
national soloists interested in this genre to join
them to take part in the recordings. Victorian
Opera Northwest can also supply vocal scores and librettos,
and hire out band parts for performances.
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© Victorian Opera
Northwest, 2005 - 2010.
Site originally donated by the Donizetti
Society
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