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Live performance is back! Courtyard Classics Live! a four-day outdoor festival of music and drama takes over Beckenham Place Park, 22 to 25 July
The curtain will rise for the first time on Courtyard Classics Live! this summer in the stunning surroundings of Beckenham Place Park. From 22 – 25 July, this four-day festival will feature some of the UK’s top musicians and actors onstage at this new courtyard concert venue, perfect for soaking up beautiful music in the evening sun.
Opera in Song from Opera Holland Park
Opera Holland Park is delighted to introduce Opera in Song: three programmes of Czech, English, Italian, Russian, German, French and Spanish music, designed by Julien Van Mellaerts in collaboration with Dylan Perez, to complement and illuminate the operas in the company’s 2021 Season.
UPDATE: Glyndebourne Festival 2021
Following the government announcement that social distancing restrictions will be lifted on 19 July, Glyndebourne has confirmed that it will release more tickets to Glyndebourne Festival performances after that date. Audiences were previously capped at 50% of capacity.
All seats in the opera house’s 1,200-capacity auditorium will now be available for performances between 19 July and 29 August, with additional tickets to Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Verdi’s Luisa Miller, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and three concerts by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Ensuring the safety of its audiences remains Glyndebourne’s top priority. Glyndebourne is strongly encouraging the continued use of face coverings in the auditorium, in line with the theatre industry’s ‘See it safely’ guidance. A number of other safety measures will remain in place for Festival 2021 performances from 19 July onwards, including temperature testing, enhanced cleaning and contactless ticketing.
Glyndebourne chose to invest in a loss-making Festival this year in order to protect jobs and provide work to freelance artists, technicians and craftspeople. Every additional ticket that is sold this summer will support Glyndebourne’s long-term survival.
Public booking for the additional tickets will open at 10.00am on Sunday 18 July from click here
Previous announcement
Glyndebourne has confirmed its plans to proceed with its annual opera festival in 2021, with adaptations to ensure the show can go on, even if social distancing is still in place.
Glyndebourne Festival 2021 will run from 20 May until 29 August with new productions of Janáček’s Kát’a Kabanová, Rossini’s Il turco in Italia and Verdi’s Luisa Miller, alongside a revival of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. In a change to original plans, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde will be presented as a semi-staged concert with a full orchestra, seated on the stage, to do justice to the opera’s epic score.
A thrilling new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre will headline the 2021 Grimeborn Opera Festival
Wagner’s Die Walküre headlines the 2021 Grimeborn Opera Festival and is staged over three nights at Hackney Empire in a version by Jonathan Dove not seen in London since its premiere in the 1990s. Other festival productions will be staged in Arcola’s exciting new covered outdoor venue, Arcola Outside.
THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES ITS 2021/22 ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL SEASON (11 PREMIERES, 34 CONCERTS AND A NEW PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR, EDWARD GARDNER)
The London Philharmonic Orchestra today announced its 2021/22 season at the Royal Festival Hall, featuring 34 concerts of brilliantly curated programmes performed by many of the world’s leading musicians – and all in front of live audiences.
This autumn’s Glyndebourne Tour opens for public booking, including a striking new production of Beethoven’s only opera
Following its cancellation in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Glyndebourne Tour will return in autumn 2021 with performances at Glyndebourne and in Canterbury, Milton Keynes, Norwich and Liverpool.
An explosion of opera
Irish National Opera’s biggest-ever season
Wednesday 7 July 2021 to Saturday 25 June 2022
58 performances in 26 spaces at 20 different locations, 9 new productions,
6 operas by Irish composers, including 4 world premieres
Irish National Opera’s 2021-22 season is its biggest ever, and its most diverse
The London Opera Company will perform a new semi-staged production of Wagner’s Die Walküre at St John’s Church, Waterloo, London on Saturday 3 July 2021, with a company of top-flight international singers and musicians. The London Opera Company formed last summer to give fellow musicians and international opera singers who had lost their work to … Read more