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SAFFRON OPERA GROUP COMPLETES ITS WORLD-CLASS RING CYCLE
UPDATE – FOR A REVIEW OF THIS PEROFORMANCE CLICK HERE
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ENSEMBLE PRESENTS GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Saffron Opera Group performs Götterdämmerung at 2pm on 17 September 2017 at Saffron Hall (Audley End Road, Saffron Walden CB11 4UH)
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Counterpoise is an ensemble of some of the most sought-after instrumentalists in the UK, founded with the aim of crossing genres, exploring the relationship between music, text and visuals, and seeking to develop aspects of narrative and other extra-musical influences.
Fenella Humphreys violin
Deborah Calland trumpet
Kyle Horch saxophone/clarinet
Iain Farrington piano
Our latest project, Kokoschka’s Doll, featuring Sir John Tomlinson, Rozanna Madylus and Counterpoise, will be performed at a number of venues in 2017 and 2018.
Catriona Morison, 31-year-old mezzo soprano from Scotland, is the first British winner of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.
English National Ballet – Emerging Dancer LIVE
Thursday 25 May 2017 – from 7.25pm – www.ballet.org.uk/emerging-dancer
Garsington Opera and Coastal Culture Network
As a result of Magna Vitae and Garsington Opera for All’s pioneering education and outreach work integrated with free public screenings of opera in isolated coastal and rural communities, a new online network – the Coastal Culture Network (CCN) – has been formed. CCN aims to strengthen the network of cultural provision around the coast by bringing together coastal local authorities, cultural organisations, Coastal Community Teams and others with an interest in the role of culture in seaside locations.
FOR BBC PROMS 2017 REVIEWS CLICK HERE.
BBC Proms 2017 – Friday 14 July – Saturday 9 September 2017: the world’s largest classical music festival reaches new audiences with a Relaxed Prom, ‘Water Music’ in Hull and an array of young artists
122 years since it was founded and 90 years since the BBC took over the running, financing and broadcasting of the world’s largest classical music festival, the BBC Proms today announces its 2017 season. Presenting over eight weeks of events and more than 90 concerts the festival continues its founder-conductor Henry Wood’s aim of bringing the best classical music to the widest audience.
GRANGE PARK OPERA IN 2017
A NEW OPERA HOUSE: A MAGICAL SETTING in the Surrey Hills Opening on 8 June 2017 with world-renowned tenor, Joseph Calleja, in Tosca.
On 8 June 2017, the curtain will rise on a brand new horseshoe shaped opera house – the first in the UK in decades. Grange Park Opera, one of Europe’s leading opera festivals, will open The Theatre in the Woods – and the 2017 season – at West Horsley Place, a 350-acre estate in Surrey, inherited in 2014 by author Bamber Gascoigne from his aunt, the Duchess of Roxburghe.
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL 2017
CINEMA
ON SCREEN: 8 JUNE La traviata Recorded Live
Streamed via glyndebourne.com and in cinemas nationwide a recording of Tom Cairns’s 2014 production of La traviata. Featuring Michael Fabiano and Venera Gimadieva.
ON SCREEN: 6 JULY – Hamlet LIVE
Streamed live via glyndebourne.com and in cinemas nationwide: the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet, featuring a cast of some of the finest singing actors of the moment including; Allan Clayton, Sarah Connolly, Barbara Hannigan and John Tomlinson.
ON SCREEN: 3 AUGUST – La clemenza di Tito LIVE
Streamed live via glyndebourne.com and in cinemas nationwide: Glyndebourne’s new production of Mozart’s last opera.
Tickets on sale now. Visit glyndebourne.com to find a screening near you.