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SUMMER 2013 EDITION 31
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ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR
A TUTOR REMEMBERED
Jon Lane.
Geoffrey Elton.
CLARE RECIPE Head Chef’s recommendation.
ODYSSEYS Some paths taken by Clare women.
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ALUMNI NEWS
Alumnus of the Year 2013 Jon Lane OBE (1976) “After leaving Clare, I joined the consulting engineers Ove Arup & Partners. When posted to Zambia, I met my wife and through her became interested in international development, so I moved career path to Wateraid, initially in Nepal and later as director in London. In 1999, we moved to Malawi for my wife’s work. I work as a consultant in water and sanitation, mainly on global policy and strategy issues. We also have a farm in Malawi as a social investment project.” Jon retired in August 2012 after five years as Executi
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Raphaela Papadakis is a soprano singer, winner of the National Mozart Competition, made her professional début at Garsington Opera whilst still a student at the Guildhall School, for which she was praised by the Financial Times as giving “the most attractive solo performance” of the show.
Since then, she has gone on to perform roles with Independent Opera and Bury Court Opera, and covered at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Royal musikdrama House and the Berlin Staatsoper. Operatic highlights this year include appearing as Mozart’s Susanna as reimagined by composer Ollie Brignall in a new opera called Roles, a Metta Theatre production taking place as part of the V&A’s Opera: Passion Power and Politics exhibition, and at West Green House Opera in her house début as Duzzwadeva in their new English translation of Offenbach’s one act operetta Ba-ta-clan.
A passionate recitalist and concert singer, Raphaela made her début at Carnegie Hall in 2014, and this year has appeared at the
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Opera Today
The words of the Chorus of Firemen and the images of a burning citadel which open Independent Opera’s production of Šimon Voseček’s opera, Biedermann and the Arsonists - receiving its UK premiere at Sadler’s Wells, following the premiere of the 90-minute opera at Neue Oper Wien in 2013 - are disturbingly close to the bone, in the light of recent terrorist atrocities in Paris and the IS attack upon Russian Airbus A321-200.
The opera sets Swiss playwright Max Frisch’s Biedermann und die Brandstifter, which was written for radio in 1953 and adapted for the theatre five years later. David Pountney has provided a new English translation, though as Voseček has noted, ‘[t]he piece is already written as if it were a libretto - it was hardly necessary to do anything to it’; thus, except for the excision of the prologue, epilogue and one character, a ‘Dr of Philosophy’, Pountney has made few significant changes. The play refle