Matthew Rose and Friends to Perform Two World Premieres at Temple Church
15/02/2019
Matthew Rose and Friends Perform New Works by David Bruce and Kate Whitley at Temple Church on 30 April 2019.
Leading British bass Matthew Rose will be joined by distinguished friends including Katherine Broderick, Anna Tilbrook and Jan Schmolck for the world premiere performances of David Bruce’s new work for soprano and bass and Kate Whitley’s Full cycle of settings of Charlotte Mew poems for bass and strings, at Temple Church on 30 April 2019.
Tickets and programme information click here. Read more
Russian Lamentations, Ecstasy and Wine Glasses with the Vasari Singers
14/02/2019
The Path of Purity
Vasari Singers will be taking you on a choral journey from the Lamentations of St Gregory of Narek through images of light and flame, to the stars and heaven.
22 March 2019, 7.30pm : St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London Read more
Arthur Butterworth and David Jennings Premieres in Lancaster on 1 March
10/02/2019
Lancaster Music Makers Present Arthur Butterworth and David Jennings Premieres
The programme of music by members of Lakeland Composers, presented by Lancaster Music Makers on 1st March 2019, will include the first performance of the ‘Three Songs’, Op.144 which were the last compositions by Arthur Butterworth.
Arthur Butterworth
Ivan Putrov’s Against the Stream Ballet Gala Night on 7 April
08/02/2019
AGAINST THE STREAM
A Gala Night Celebrating Ballet’s Greatest Pioneers at The London Coliseum on 7 APRIL 2019
Against the Stream (c) James Bort & Christine Kreiselmaier
English Symphony Orchestra Bring Music from Wagner’s Epic Ring Cycle to the Swan Theatre
06/02/2019
Wagner at Worcester’s Swan Theatre
Stacey Rishoi
Worcestershire audiences will have a rare chance to hear some of the grandest music ever written, sung by some of the most powerful singers in the world, on the 16th of February, when the English Symphony Orchestra, hailed as the International Orchestra of Elgar Country, perform Act I of Richard Wagner’s opera The Valkyrie (Die Walküre) in Worcester’s Swan Theatre under the baton of Kenneth Woods. Read more
NEW! Carnegie Hall 2019-2020 Season Highlights
06/02/2019
Carnegie Hall in 2019-20
Clive Gillinson, Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall,
announcing the 2019-2020 season (c) Bruce Hodges
NEW! Bampton Classical Opera’s 2019 Performances of Stephen Storace’s Gli sposi malcontenti
05/02/2019
Stephen Storace’s Bride and Gloom (Gli sposi malcontenti)
Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday 19, Saturday 20 July
The Orangery Theatre, Westonbirt School, Glos: Monday 26 August
St John’s Smith Square, London: September date tbc Read more
NEW! Nevill Holt Opera’s 2019 Season
05/02/2019
Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 8EG
Wednesday 12th – Tuesday 2nd July 2019 Read more
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