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Sadler’s Wells’ Global Gala and its digital and live events for online and socially distanced audiences

28/12/202003/12/2020 by AUTHOR

In this year’s special festive programme, Sadler’s Wells presents both digital and live events for online and socially distanced audiences.

Festive celebrations begin on Saturday 5 December, with Sadler’s Wells Global Gala, broadcast free to watch via YouTube (more information below).

Breakin’ Convention returns with the brand-new show Social DisDancing on Friday 11 December and Saturday 12 December, featuring performances from AIM, the high-energy all female popping crew; a London premiere for Jamaal O’Driscoll, featuring b-boy Marius; and a world premiere from East London’s acclaimed Boy Blue.

Ballo Arthur Pita’s magical family favourite The Little Match Girl returns for Christmas from Thursday 17 December to Sunday 27 December, this year playing in Sadler’s Wells main theatre to allow social distancing for audiences to take place.

For what is on Sadler’s Wells click here.

Bampton Classical Opera returns with a seasonal concert in Witney, Oxfordshire, on 12 December

28/12/202003/12/2020 by AUTHOR

BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2020

BAROQUE CHRISTMAS CANTATAS
A concert for St Beornwald’s Day
Saturday 12 December 2020, 4pm
St Mary’s Church, Church Green, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 4AW

Bampton Classical Opera presents a seasonal concert at St Mary’s Church in Witney, Oxfordshire on Saturday 12 December at 4pm, to mark St Beornwald’s Day, the annual celebration of the patron saint of Bampton. The concert will feature two fine baroque pastoral Christmas cantatas: Alessandro Scarlatti’s ‘Non sò qual più m’ingombra’, and Antonio Caldara’s ‘Amarilli vezzosa’.

Garsington Opera has announced its 2021 season

28/12/202002/12/2020 by AUTHOR

GARSINGTON OPERA IN 2021

Der Rosenkavalier opens the season on 2 June and we welcome back Miah Persson, who triumphed in Strauss’s Capriccio in 2018, as the Marschallin, Hanna Hipp (Fantasio 2019) as Octavian and Soraya Mafi (Falstaff 2018) as Sophie. American bass-baritone makes his Garsington Opera debut as Baron Ochs and British mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately as Annina. Richard Burkhard (Fidelio 2020) is Faninal. Jordan de Souza also makes his debut conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. Director Bruno Ravella (Falstaff 2018) is joined by designer Gary McCann and lighting designer Malcolm Rippeth for this new co-production with Irish National Opera.

For the digital brochure click here.

Rosenblatt Recitals at Home in aid of Target Ovarian Cancer – details of the programmes and a review

11/01/202101/12/2020 by AUTHOR

Rosenblatt Recitals at Home

CLICK HERE FOR A RECENT REVIEW

Twenty years after the launch of Rosenblatt Recitals and three years after the final concert, the series has returned in digital form to present a season of eight themed programmes – Rosenblatt Recitals at Home, in aid of Target Ovarian Cancer.

The Royal Opera House presents Current, Rising, the world’s first opera in hyper reality

28/12/202028/11/2020 by AUTHOR

Current, Rising

From 19 December 2020 the Royal Opera House will present the world’s first opera in hyper reality: Current, Rising – a unique collaboration between the Royal Opera House’s innovation programme, Audience Labs, award-winning Figment Productions and Royal Holloway, University of London.

The Hallé announces its Winter 2020-21 Season

28/12/202022/11/2020 by AUTHOR

THE HALLÉ IS BACK!

The Hallé is delighted to announce its Winter Season: nine concerts streamed from the Hallé’s Manchester homes, The Bridgewater Hall and Hallé St Peter’s in Ancoats.

The orchestra’s Music Director, Sir Mark Elder, who has been such a leading advocate for music during this time, will conduct five concerts alongside the family of Hallé conductors. They include Assistant Conductor and winner of the 2020 Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition Delyana Lazarova, former Assistant Conductor Jonathon Heyward, Associate Pops Conductor Stephen Bell and Artist in Residence Henning Kraggerud. Special guest artists will include Jess Gillam, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Roderick Williams, Boris Giltburg and director Annabel Arden.

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra announce three concerts for November and December

28/12/202017/11/2020 by AUTHOR

Centenary of the First Concert

Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 7.30pm on Tuesday 17th November
Available to view via the CBSO website from 6pm on Thursday 19th November – Friday 18th December
View concert information on the CBSO website click here
Tickets on sale now, costing £10

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason – cello

Sibelius Lemminkainen’s Return
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Elgar Cello Concerto
Beethoven Leonore Overture No.3

Opera North in 2020-2021 – livestreams and future plans

05/12/202014/11/2020 by AUTHOR

LIVESTREAMS ANNOUNCED AS OPERA NORTH RESCHEDULES PRODUCTIONS

The Seven Deadly Sins: livestream of Gary Clarke’s new production on Sat 21 November at Leeds Playhouse

Fidelio: livestream conducted by Mark Wigglesworth on Sat 12 December at Leeds Town Hall

Film of Whistle Stop Opera: Cinderella will be released online in December as an alternative to pantomime trips for families and schools

Spring 2021 tour of Parsifal postponed; replaced by highlights of Wagner’s Ring conducted by Richard Farnes using Jonathan Dove’s orchestrations

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