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    Wagner, Thai-style

    Life, Michael Proudfoot, Published on 25/08/2016

    » It was bold of Somtow Sucharitkul to take Opera Siam to Bayreuth in Germany, the spiritual home of Wagnerians, to perform the first opera of a cycle of operas that challenges Richard Wagner's monumental Ring cycle, performed every year in Bayreuth, as the world's longest opera cycle. Sucharitkul's The Silent Prince is the first of the 10 operas of his Dasjati cycle telling the "Ten Lives Of The Buddha", familiar stories in Buddhist culture. Somtow has already composed five of the operas, and hopes to have all 10 finished by 2020, ready for a complete cycle in a sort of Bangkok Bayreuth Festival.

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    Thai musicians charm Bavarian audiences

    Life, Michael Proudfoot, Published on 16/08/2016

    » Opera Siam and the Siam Sinfonietta are in Bayreuth, Germany, home each year to the famous Wagner Festival, for the European premiere of Somtow Sucharitkul's opera The Silent Prince, which forms part of the Bayreuth Annual Young Artists Festival. Before the opera opens members of the ensemble have performed concerts in Bayreuth and some small Bavarian towns nearby.

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    An evening of carols

    Life, Michael Proudfoot, Published on 22/12/2015

    » For most British people, the Christmas season is inextricably linked with the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast live from King's College, Cambridge, every Christmas Eve on both TV and radio. While the King's College Chapel Choir is the best known of the Oxford and Cambridge College Choirs, it is generally unknown that virtually all of the nearly 70 colleges have their own choir.

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