NEW! Booking Open for Longborough Festival Opera 2018
05/03/2018
LONGBOROUGH FESTIVAL OPERA 2018
Shortly after announcing that Polly Graham will take over as Artistic Director, booking has opened for the 2018 season of Longborough Festival Opera. Read more
NEW! Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella in Cinemas on 15 May with Live Q&A
02/03/2018
MATTHEW BOURNE’S CINDERELLA IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE ON 15 MAY
INCLUDES LIVE BY SATELLITE Q&A WITH MATTHEW BOURNE
Running time 150 mins (including Live Q&A) / Film BBFC PG Read more
NEW! Additional Tickets Now Available for Nevill Holt Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro
02/03/2018
Nevill Holt Opera releases tickets for additional performance of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro
Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 8EG
Thursday 14th – Saturday 30th June 2018
Due to popular demand, having sold out all performances in January, the award-winning Nevill Holt Opera has just released an additional performance of their new production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro on Sunday 17th June. As a superior opera destination in the stunning East Midlands countryside, they prepare to unveil their brand new 400-seat theatre to launch their 2018 season. Read more
NEW! THE CONDUCTOR LAURENCE EQUILBEY IN CONVERSATION WITH COLIN CLARKE
23/02/2018
Laurence Equilbey on La Seine Musicale, Insula Orchestra and Female Composers
La Seine Musicale (c) CD92/Olivier Ravoire.
NEW! Leeds Lieder’s Four-Day Celebration of Art Song in April 2018
23/02/2018
LEEDS LIEDER PRESENTS POETRY INTO SONG
Leeds Lieder Festival 2018: Thursday 19 – Sunday 22 April 2018
Leeds Lieder presents – ‘Poetry into Song’ – a four-day Festival (19 – 22 April 2018) celebrating art-song, poetry and community under the Artistic Directorship of pianist Joseph Middleton. Read more
NEW! Newly Discovered Song by Alma Mahler to be Performed in Oxford and Newbury
22/02/2018
Kokoschka’s Doll and The Art of Love, incorporating Einsamer Gang will be performed in Oxford and Newbury
Alma Mahler
It is well known that in addition to the fourteen songs by Alma Mahler published in her lifetime, several dozen more – perhaps as many as one hundred – were written and have been lost or destroyed. One of those ‘lost’ songs, Einsamer Gang (Lonely Walk), has recently been discovered and will be given its UK premiere performances by Rozanna Madylus and Counterpoise at the Wagner 1900 conference in Oxford (April) and at the Newbury Spring Festival (May). Read more
NEW! World Premiere by Novaya Opera of Pushkin – The Opera in the Theatre in the Woods
22/02/2018
PUSHKIN – THE OPERA
STAGED WORLD PREMIERE GIVEN BY MOSCOW’S NOVAYA OPERA AT GRANGE PARK OPERA, SURREY: 11-12 JULY 2018 Read more
NEW! A Q&A WITH LISETTE OROPESA AS SHE RETURNS TO LA OPERA FOR ORFEO ED EURIDICE
18/02/2018
Lisette Oropesa (c) Steven Harris
A highlight of this season for soprano Lisette Oropesa was her Royal Opera debut as Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) at Covent Garden. She will soon be making a role debut as Euridice in the French version of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Los Angeles Opera, in a new production opening on the 10 March, directed and choreographed by John Neumeier, and conducted by James Conlon. In advance of these performances in Los Angeles, Lisette Oropesa answers Seen and Heard International’s questions about this current role, as well as, looking back on her life and his career. Read more
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