A Joyous Tanglewood Concert for Dark Times

United StatesUnited States 2018 Tanglewood – Brahms and Shostakovich: Rudoph Buchbinder (Piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA, 8.7.2018. (CSa)  

Tanglewood 2018 – BSO, Andris Nelsons (conductor) & Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) (c) Hilary Scott

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A Spectacular Audio-Visual New Work Helps to Launch the 2018 BBC Proms

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 1 – Knussen, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Meredith: National Youth Choir of Great Britain, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Proms Youth Ensemble, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 13.7.2018. (CC)

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The First Night of the Proms featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Proms Youth Ensemble,
National Youth Choir of Great Britain & Sakari Oramo (conductor) (c) Chris Christodoulou

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Buxton’s Singers Take Up the Challenge of the Considerable Demands of Idomeneo

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2018 Buxton International Festival [2] – Mozart, Idomeneo: Soloists, Buxton Festival Chorus, Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Kok (conductor). Opera House, Buxton, 8.7.2018. (RJF)

Madeleine Pierard (Elettra) in <i.Idomeneo (c) Richard Hubert Smith

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Thanks to Barry Humphries and Meow Meow Weimar Germany’s Silenced Voices are Heard Once More

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Various compoers, Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret: Barry Humphries (conférencier/voice), Meow Meow (cabaret artist), Satu Vänskä (musical director/voice), Aurora Orchestra, Barbican Theatre, London, 12.7.2018. (JPr)

Barry Humphries and Meow Meow

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Cecilia Violetta López Is Irresistible in Opera Saratoga’s The Merry Widow

United StatesUnited States 2018 Opera Saratoga Summer Festival [3] – Lehár, The Merry Widow: Soloists and The Opera Saratoga Orchestra and Chorus / Anthony Barrese (conductor), Opera Saratoga, The Spa Little Theater, Saratoga Springs, 8.7.2018. (RP)

Cecilia Violetta López (Hanna Glawari) in The Merry Widow © Gary David Gold

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Saffron Opera Group Presents Parsifal in Saffron Walden on 16 September

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SAFFRON OPERA GROUP CONTINUES WAGNERIAN TRIUMPHS

 CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ENSEMBLE PRESENTS PARSIFAL

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REVIEWS OF THE RING CYCLE

‘Saffron Opera is now a major Wagnerian force’ (Wagner News)
‘Intellectually as well as emotionally engaging… shattering’ (Operissima.org)
‘The whole performance seemed to transcend itself’ (The Guardian)

After triumphant performances of the Ring Cycle and Die Meistersinger – which have been hailed in the national press as some of the UK’s most ambitious and successful British Wagnerian events of the last decade – Saffron Opera Group now turns its attention to Wagner’s final masterpiece: Parsifal. The performance will take place on 16 September 16 in Saffron Hall.

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