Snape Proms 2019: 1 – 31 August
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Nadine Benjamin’s Outstanding Tosca Celebrates How Everybody Can!
United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Everybody Can! Opera’s Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra / William Conway (conductor). St James’s Church, Piccadilly, 18.1.2019. (TC)
Garsington Opera’s 2019 30th Anniversary Season
30th ANNIVERSARY SEASON: FOUR NEW PRODUCTIONS INCLUDING AN OFFENBACH PREMIERE
Garsington Opera’s 30th anniversary season will feature four new productions – the UK stage premiere of Offenbach’s Fantasio, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and finally Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. The season culminates with concert performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, celebrating the start of a partnership with The English Concert. The season runs from 29 May to 26 July.
Everybody Can! Opera’s Tosca with Nadine Benjamin this Friday
Everybody Can! Opera’s Tosca
St James’s Church, Piccadilly Friday 18 January at 7pm
Following its successful semi-staging of Verdi’s Otello in 2015, Everybody Can! Opera is now thrilled to present Tosca – Puccini’s ‘shabby little shocker’ – at St James’s Church, Piccadilly on Friday 18 January 2019 at 7pm.
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Clara Schumann Festival at St John’s Smith Square – 22 to 24 February 2019
Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Clara Schumann’s birth
For concert information and how to book .
Venus Unwrapped: Kings Place’s Year-Long Focus on Women Composers
VENUS UNWRAPPED
A new light on music by women (January – December 2019) opening on Thursday 10 January with a concert that marks the 400th birthday of singer and composer Barbara Strozzi. Kings Place’s Venus Unwrapped is a year-long series focusing on the creative firepower of women composers.
For more information about Venus Unwrapped events and how to book click here.
SOME OF SEEN AND HEARD’S REVIEWERS LOOK BACK AT 2018
Seen and Heard’s Best of 2018
Iain Farrington’s Mahler Piano Series was an Extraordinary Marathon
Ken Ward reviews Iain Farrington’s Mahler Piano Series at the 1901 Arts Club, Exton Street, Waterloo, London. 12.9 – 21.11.2018.