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OXFORD LIEDER FESTIVAL 2019
Tales of Beyond – Magic, Myths and Mortals
The 18th Oxford Lieder Festival (11 – 26 October 2019) inhabits a world of storytelling and fairy tales, from Norse legend to the Brothers Grimm, from the Grim Reaper to Greek myth. Concerts, talks and study days will explore life, death and the mysterious areas between and beyond, with other events including live magic, a film screening, a ghost trail and more.
Opera Loki’s Madam Butterfly
Opera Loki cuts right to the soulful heart of Puccini’s famous tale of love, desire and betrayal
United Kingdom Stephen Storace, Gli Sposi Malcontenti: Soloists and Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Anthony Kraus (conductor). Westonbirt School, Westonbirt, 29.8.2019. (CP)
THE REFUGEE ORCHESTRA PROJECT
A one-off concert in aid of Refugee Action
LSO St Luke’s, Sunday 1st September 2019
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet Comes to Cinemas
in the UK and Ireland in October
Running time 93 mins / BBFC TBC / Released in cinemas nationwide
22 October 2019
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet – to be screened in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from Tuesday 22 October (running time 93mins): Dancers and Orchestra of the New Adventures company / Brett Morris (conductor). Directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon and filmed live at Sadler’s Wells, London. Reviewed by Jim Pritchard.
SAFFRON OPERA GROUP PRESENTS TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
FORMER TRIUMPHS INCLUDE THE RING CYCLE, PARSIFAL, DIE MEISTERSINGER
THRILLING CAST OF ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING ARTISTS IN OPERA’S GREATEST LOVE STORY
‘A most remarkable concert performance… superb’
(Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph, on Parsifal)
Saffron Opera Group intends to build on its critically-lauded run of Wagnerian triumphs with the composer’s sublime hymn to the agonies and ecstasies of love, Tristan und Isolde. The concert performance takes place on 15 September in Saffron Hall.
United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2019 [4] – Cavalli, La Calisto: Soloists and the Barefoot Band / Lesley Anne Sammons (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 29.7.2019. (CP)
