{"id":13289,"date":"2019-04-27T18:40:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T08:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/?p=13289"},"modified":"2019-06-17T15:53:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T05:53:31","slug":"13289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/?p=13289","title":{"rendered":"Bleach Festival &#8211; Verdi&#8217;s Requiem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1170px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>A Fantastic week spent on the Gold Coast at HOTA (Home of the Arts) doing Sound Design for this show as part of the Bleach Festival.\u00c2\u00a0 2019&#8217;s festival culminated in a highly evocative and engaging performance of Verdi&#8217;s Requiem, presented by Opera Queensland and The Queensland Conservatorium of Music Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Giuseppe Verdi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s setting of the Latin Requiem Mass is one of the great choral blockbusters, rivalling Handel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Messiah and Mozart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own Requiem for popularity. Already outsized for performances in most churches, the Requiem will break free of the concert hall in Opera Queensland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2019 season, coming to the Gold Coast\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Home of the Arts for an outdoor performance, in collaboration with the Bleach* Festival, that promises plenty of surprises<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Limelight Magazine, April 2019)<\/p>\n<p>It was an incredible evening, put together by countless creatives and performers. <span id=\"u_1h_2\" class=\"_ezo\">Congratulations<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0to all those from Bleach Festival, HOTA, Opera Queensland, Griffith University and the crew I worked alongside from Norwest Productions &#8211; it was a truly exhilarating performance that looked and sounded amazing.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1170px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,59,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-engineer","category-live-sound","category-opera-queensland","category-sound-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13289"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13393,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions\/13393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcgahan.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}