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Updated 20 July 2018:
The Invictus Games Choir team up with classical singer Carly Paoli for single release
‘Liberty’ by Carly Paoli featuring the Invictus Games Choir will raise funds for Help for Heroes
** LISTEN TO / BUY ‘LIBERTY’ HERE: fanlink.to/liberty **
Watch teaser video here: YOUTUBE
The single is released TODAY (July 20th 2018) and will also be included on Carly’s forthcoming album ‘Live At Cadogan Hall’, released August 24th 2018 on ABIAH Music.
Franco Vassallo is an acclaimed interpreter of leading Verdi roles – amongst many others – in the world’s most important opera houses (including Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Opéra de Paris, London’s Royal Opera House and New York’s Metropolitan Opera). He has just sung Scarpia for the first time in Puccini’s Tosca at the Staatsoper Hamburg in the Robert Carsen production and performed with Anja Harteros and Jonas Kaufmann.
Broadwood Piano Concert At Finchcocks
Finchcocks, a renowned piano museum turned contemporary piano school, has announced it will be hosting its first charity classical music concert this May. The concert is being organised in collaboration with John Broadwood and Sons, taking place on the 27th May 2018 and starting at 7.30pm. The intimate evening of music will celebrate the bicentenary of the delivery of one of Thomas Broadwood’s best pianos to Beethoven.
Leicester Hosts Let’s Dance International Frontiers (LDIF) 2018
From 29 April to 12 May, Leicester will host the eighth edition of Let’s Dance International Frontiers (LDIF). In different venues across the city, discussions, performances, workshops, masterclasses and films will reflect on the traditions of dance from the African and African Caribbean diaspora.
CHESS BY BENNY ANDERSSON, TIM RICE & BJÖRN ULVAEUS
PREVIEWS FROM 26 APRIL 2018 AT THE LONDON COLISEUM
(L-R Murray Head, Cassidy Janson, Phillip Browne, Michael Ball, Alexandra Burke, Sir Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and director Laurence Connor)
The first West End production of Chess since 1986 stars Michael Ball as Anatoly, Alexandra Burke as Svetlana, Murray Head as The Arbiter, Tim Howar as Freddie, Cassidy Janson as Florence and Philip Browne as Molokov. This epic musical love story will open at the London Coliseum on Thursday 26 April 2018 for a strictly limited 5 week season.
The Royal Ballet and Royal Opera’s programme for 2018/19 include world premieres, major new productions and classic revivals.
Details of the Royal Opera House’s 2018/19 Season have been announced.
A Star-studded line up at 2018 Cheltenham Music Festival from 30 June to 15 July 2018
The 74th Cheltenham Music Festival brings the very best of classical music to the widest possible audience (30 June – 15 July). A star-studded line-up includes a Festival debut from Maxim Vengerov, András Schiff with the OAE, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Sarah Connolly, James Gilchrist, Mahan Esfahani, Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Grosvenor and The King’s Singers plus Sir Mark Elder and Louise Alder with The Hallé and Martyn Brabbins with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Matthias Schulz and Daniel Barenboim announce the program for the 2018/19 season at Staatsoper Unter den Linden