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Eclectic Swedish Composer Who Likes to Give Pleasure: – B Tommy Andersson in Conversation with Simon Rees

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Eclectic Swedish Composer Who Likes to Give Pleasure: – B Tommy Andersson in conversation with Simon Rees B Tommy Andersson becomes Composer-in-Association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales from autumn 2014. A Swedish composer, whose initial ‘B’ stands for ‘Bengt’, Andersson has just turned 50, and has spent a great deal of his career … Read more

A Jolly Opera Colourfully Staged and Well Sung

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore(sung in Italian with surtitles in English): Soloists, RNCM Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Francesco Pasqualetti (conductor), RNCM Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, 8.12.2013 (RJF)

Day of Song (Lauren Fielder, Benjamin Lewis, Joanna Norman, Kang Wang with pianist Roderick Barrand) credit Paul Cliff
Day of Song (Lauren Fielder, Benjamin Lewis, Joanna Norman, Kang Wang with pianist Roderick Barrand) credit Paul Cliff

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Longborough Festival (Nominated for RPS Award) Opera Season Preview

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 Longborough Festival Opera Nominated for RPS Award Longborough Festival Opera is delighted to announce that its 2013 Ring Cycle has been shortlisted in the Opera and Music Theatre category of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. LFO is the first privately owned opera house to have staged a full-length production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle led by conductor … Read more