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His operatic experience includes a programme of Walton’s The Bear and Stravinsky’s Renard for Mahogany Opera in 2008, described by Opera magazine as‘one of the most electrifying evenings I’ve spent at the opera in recent seasons ... brilliant playing [by] the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon, whose feel for Stravinsky’s Russian colourings were beyond reproach<ref>Opera Magazine, July 2008, Page 828 http://www.opera.co.uk </ref>’. In April 2007 he conducted Mozart’s The Magic Flute, directed by Sam West, in Ramallah and Bethlehem, the first-ever staged opera production in the West Bank and returned this year with the same team for performances of La Boheme. |
His operatic experience includes a programme of Walton’s The Bear and Stravinsky’s Renard for Mahogany Opera in 2008, described by Opera magazine as‘one of the most electrifying evenings I’ve spent at the opera in recent seasons ... brilliant playing [by] the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon, whose feel for Stravinsky’s Russian colourings were beyond reproach<ref>Opera Magazine, July 2008, Page 828 http://www.opera.co.uk </ref>’. In April 2007 he conducted Mozart’s The Magic Flute, directed by Sam West, in Ramallah and Bethlehem, the first-ever staged opera production in the West Bank and returned this year with the same team for performances of La Boheme. |
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Nicolas Collon is a British Conductor.
Nicolas holds the position of Principal Conductor of Aurora Orchestra. A viola player, pianist and organist by training, Nicholas studied at Clare College, Cambridge. He was awarded the 2008 Arts Foundation Fellowship for conducting, having been chosen from a list of twenty nominated British conductors.
With Aurora Nicholas has explored the chamber symphonies of John Adams, Schoenberg and Schreker, Birtwistle’s Secret Theatre and Strauss’s Metamorphosen. Together they performed Ligeti's Chamber Concerto at the Aldeburgh Festival and returned there with Schoenberg’s Erwartung to open the new Hoffmann Building. He also appeared with Aurora in the Spitalfields and Barbican Young Genius Festivals, at the BBC Proms as part of the Young Composers’ Competition, at LSO St Luke’s and at the Al Bustan Festival, Lebanon. Other concert work includes the chamber version of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Orchestra of Opera North, a programme of Schumann, Piazzolla and Stravinsky with Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg, Shostakovich Symphony No 4 with the Kensington Symphony and Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique with the Salomon Orchestra.
His operatic experience includes a programme of Walton’s The Bear and Stravinsky’s Renard for Mahogany Opera in 2008, described by Opera magazine as‘one of the most electrifying evenings I’ve spent at the opera in recent seasons ... brilliant playing [by] the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon, whose feel for Stravinsky’s Russian colourings were beyond reproach[1]’. In April 2007 he conducted Mozart’s The Magic Flute, directed by Sam West, in Ramallah and Bethlehem, the first-ever staged opera production in the West Bank and returned this year with the same team for performances of La Boheme. [1]
- ^ Opera Magazine, July 2008, Page 828 http://www.opera.co.uk
