United Kingdom Grieg, R. Strauss, Wagner: Lise Davidsen (soprano) and Leif Ove Andsnes (piano). Barbican Hall, London, 13.1.2022. (KMcD)
Glorious Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes recital of Grieg, Richard Strauss and Wagner
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Saffron Opera Group presents Così fan tutte at Saffron Hall on 13 February 2022
Established and Rising Stars join forces for Saffron Opera Group’s Concert Performance
of Mozart’s Immortal Comedy of Love, Lust And Betrayal
FOR A 13 FEBRUARY REVIEW CLICK HERE
English Touring Opera present works by Puccini, Rimsky-Korsakov and Bach in their Spring 2022 tour
ETO’s Spring Season 2022
English Touring Opera launches into 2022 with two contemporaneous operas that could hardly be more different, a choral masterpiece pairing choirs from around the country with professional singers, and an innovative new film.
Contributors look back on events Seen and Heard in 2021
Reflecting on the past year – and perhaps with their hopes for the future – are … MARK BERRY: It has, for reasons all too obvious, been another strange musical year. Whereas in 2020 we had just over two months of ‘normality’, an apparently auspicious beginning to Beethoven Year, followed by the Great Deafness, intermittently … Read more
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 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.
CLICK HERE to stream for FREE (until 25 February 2022) this year’s Die Walküre
NI Opera returns to Belfast’s Lyric Theatre in February 2022 with Into The Woods
Northern Ireland Opera (NI Opera) announces its return to Belfast’s Lyric Theatre next February 2022 to stage Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s Into The Woods, one of the most iconic and popular shows in the musical theatre canon, richly laden with symbolism, magic and metaphor. (Sadly, Sondheim passed away recently and for Seen and Heard‘s tribute click here.)
Ballet Icons Gala 2021 is back on stage at the London Coliseum on 26 November
ENSEMBLE PRODUCTIONS present BALLET ICONS GALA 2021
A superb evening of world class ballet – BACK ON STAGE – CELEBRATION OF DANCE
Friday November 26th 2021 at the LONDON COLISEUM at 7pm
Tickets: £30-£175
Box office: 020 7845 9300 (London Coliseum ticket link here)
Lucerne Summer Festival 2022 – 9 August to 11 September
‘Diversity’ is the theme of the Lucerne Summer Festival 2022
Lucerne Festival Orchestra to perform with Music Director Riccardo Chailly as well as Jakub Hrůša
The Chineke! Youth Orchestra and the Chineke! Orchestra, respectively, will appear at the beginning and end of the Festival
The Lucerne Festival Academy and the LFCO will focus on the work of composer-in-residence Thomas Adès and collaborate with ‘artiste étoile’ Tyshawn Sorey.
Both the composer and multifaceted instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey and the soprano Angel Blue will be ‘artistes étoiles.’
22 orchestras will make guest appearances in Lucerne over a single month; in addition to the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and the Royal Concertgebouworkest, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra are scheduled to appear.