Harry Sever is Longborough’s first Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow

Longborough Festival Opera has appointed Harry Sever as its first Ring Cycle Conducting Fellow

Harry Sever (c) James Rose Photography

Harry Sever will work alongside Longborough Music Director and eminent Wagnerian Anthony Negus for the next three seasons as the festival builds towards its 2024 Ring cycle. For his first performance in the post, Sever will conduct Siegfried at Longborough on Friday 3 June 2022.

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After half a century Scottish Ballet’s The Nutcracker still has a lot to recommend it

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Scottish Ballet’s The Nutcracker: Dancers of Scottish Ballet, Scottish Ballet Orchestra / Jean-Claude Picard (conductor). Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 10.12.2021. (SRT)

Andrew Peasgood (Nutcracker Prince) and Constance Devernay (Sugar Plum Fairy)

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‘Into the Light’ – Joyce DiDonato brings music to Buenos Aires

ArgentinaArgentina Purcell, Handel, Rossini, Wagner, Piaf, Hart: Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) accompanied by Craig Terry (piano). For Mozarteum Argentino at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 6.12.2021. (JSJ)

Joyce DiDonato in ‘Into the Light’ with Craig Terry (piano) (c) Liliana Morsia

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Barrie Kosky’s new Vienna Don Giovanni is caught between a rock and a hard place

AustriaAustria Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Ella Gallieni) from Vienna State Opera, 5.12.2021. (JPr)

Philippe Sly (l, Leporello) and Kyle Ketelson (r, Don Giovanni) (c) Michael Poehn

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