2019 Aldeburgh Festival and Snape Proms in June and August
21/01/2019
Snape Proms 2019: 1 – 31 August Read more
Garsington Opera’s 2019 30th Anniversary Season
21/01/2019
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. Read more
Everybody Can! Opera’s Tosca with Nadine Benjamin this Friday
16/01/2019
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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Nadine Benjamin (c) Devon Cass
Clara Schumann Festival at St John’s Smith Square – 22 to 24 February 2019
07/01/2019
Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Clara Schumann’s birth
Clara Schumann (c) Andreas Staub
For concert information and how to book click here. Read more
Venus Unwrapped: Kings Place’s Year-Long Focus on Women Composers
04/01/2019
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. Read more
Opera Buenos Aires in 2019 – Largely Traditional
12/12/2018
Teatro Colón’s 2019 season
Enrique Arturo Diemecke, Teatro Colón’s artistic & production director-general
presents the 2019 season (c) Teatro Colón/Juan José Bruzza
Some Forthcoming London Events from Temple Music
28/11/2018
This year’s Temple Winter Festival will be held between 10 and 14 December at Temple Church, just off Fleet Street in London.
The festival continues to bring together some of the UK’s finest talent from the choral world, including Sansara, ORA Singers, and The Tallis Scholars, who return for this year’s festival. The concerts take place in the magnificent and centrally located Temple Church, built in the 12th century by the Knights Templar. Read more
Royal Opera House Cinema Festival Begins Monday 3 December in State-of-the-Art Linbury Theatre
20/11/2018
Antonio Pappano and Darcey Bussell among guest presenters at the new Royal Opera House Cinema Festival
Guest presenters will offer exclusive performance insights during the Royal Opera House Cinema Festival, which opens on Monday 3 December in the state-of-the-art Linbury Theatre. Famous faces include former Royal Ballet Principal Darcey Bussell (presenting Sylvia, 7 December, 7pm) and Music Director of The Royal Opera Antonio Pappano (presenting Otello, 21 December, 7pm, and The Flying Dutchman, 29 December, 7pm). The festival, which includes 11 free opera and ballet performances for children, runs until Sunday 6 January. Read more
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This joyous set of Beethoven's sonatas takes its place among the very best. 
In its own way, the Seven Words of Christ is just as sublime as the Stabat Mater. 
This sensitive, dynamic recording is a joy, and may even constitute a revelation. 
The pair exhibits a refined style on these illuminating performances. 
A deeply affecting experience that ought to win the opera many new admirers. 
Composed in 1803, at a time when Beethoven was also writing his second symphony and his third piano 
This production has worked hard to cut the story's racist stereotypes 
Byzantine, Aramaic, and Coptic Christian traditions are melded along with songs and chants – some of 
While other venues closed up shop for the festive season, Wigmore Hall has flown the flag for top-qu 
