NEW! Carnegie Hall 2019-2020 Season Highlights
06/02/2019
Carnegie Hall in 2019-20
Clive Gillinson, Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall,
announcing the 2019-2020 season (c) Bruce Hodges
NEW! Bampton Classical Opera’s 2019 Performances of Stephen Storace’s Gli sposi malcontenti
05/02/2019
Stephen Storace’s Bride and Gloom (Gli sposi malcontenti)
Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday 19, Saturday 20 July
The Orangery Theatre, Westonbirt School, Glos: Monday 26 August
St John’s Smith Square, London: September date tbc Read more
NEW! Nevill Holt Opera’s 2019 Season
05/02/2019
Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 8EG
Wednesday 12th – Tuesday 2nd July 2019 Read more
NEW! London To Hear Long-Overdue Revival of Parry’s Oratorio Judith in April
30/01/2019
An Introduction to Sir Hubert Parry’s Oratorio Judith
William Vann (c) Tom Medwell
Countless people will have sung the hymn ‘Dear Lord and father of mankind’ without knowing the origin of its fine tune, known as ‘Repton’. And why should they? The tune is taken from Sir Hubert Parry’s oratorio, Judith, a work that has lain in almost total obscurity for decades. Now, however, the complete work is shortly to be heard in the UK for the first time in over 65 years. William Vann is to conduct a performance in London’s Royal Festival Hall on 3 April. Read more
Russian Ballet Icons Gala 31 March 2019 at the London Coliseum
24/01/2019
Russian Ballet Icons Gala celebrates the legacy of the famed Russian ballet school
at the London Coliseum on Sunday 31 March 2019 at 7pm
NEW! 2019 Aldeburgh Festival at the Snape Maltings in June
21/01/2019
Aldeburgh Festival 2019: 7 – 23 June Read more
NEW! Garsington Opera’s 2019 30th Anniversary Season
21/01/2019
30th ANNIVERSARY SEASON: FOUR NEW PRODUCTIONS INCLUDING AN OFFENBACH PREMIERE
Garsington Opera’s 30th anniversary season will feature four new productions – the UK stage premiere of Offenbach’s Fantasio, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and finally Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. The season culminates with concert performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, celebrating the start of a partnership with The English Concert. The season runs from 29 May to 26 July. Read more
Everybody Can! Opera’s Tosca with Nadine Benjamin this Friday
16/01/2019
Everybody Can! Opera’s Tosca
St James’s Church, Piccadilly Friday 18 January at 7pm
Following its successful semi-staging of Verdi’s Otello in 2015, Everybody Can! Opera is now thrilled to present Tosca – Puccini’s ‘shabby little shocker’ – at St James’s Church, Piccadilly on Friday 18 January 2019 at 7pm.
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Nadine Benjamin (c) Devon Cass
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