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Alisa Weilerstein in conversation with Harvey Steiman about FRAGMENTS, her fresh approach to Bach’s cello suites

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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein in conversation with Harvey Steiman

Alisa Weilerstein walked onto the stage Monday morning at Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, picked up her cello and played for a select audience who were there to provide feedback on her new idea for a concert experience.

Alisa Weilerstein © Graham Northrup/Northrup Studios

For the project, called FRAGMENTS, Weilerstein had commissioned short pieces from 27 living classical composers to intersperse between the 36 movements of Johann Sebastian Bach’s six suites for unaccompanied cello. The audience got no printed program and knew only that she was going to play all of the first cello suite and music from five contemporary composers. There would be a stage set and lighting.

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Glyndebourne tours to Milton Keynes, Canterbury, Norwich and Liverpool in November

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Glyndebourne’s fresh new take on La bohème leads the Glyndebourne Tour lineup this autumn

Glyndebourne’s brand new production of Puccini’s La bohème, which opened to critical acclaim at Glyndebourne Festival this summer, takes to the road this autumn as part of the Glyndebourne Tour, with performances at Glyndebourne during October and then at venues in Milton Keynes, Canterbury, Norwich and Liverpool during November. The striking new staging by Dutch director Floris Visser was widely praised for its fresh take on an opera that is familiar to many.

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Oxford Lieder returns for its 21st year in October 2022

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The 21st Oxford Lieder Festival: 14 to 29 October 2022
Friendship in Song: An Intimate Art

  • Oxford Lieder, the UK’s biggest festival of song, marks its 21st year with a fortnight featuring nearly 80 events.
  • World-class singers and pianists, alongside emerging stars, take to the stage for song recitals, complemented by a wide-ranging series of illustrated study events.
  • World premieres include songs cycles by British-Chinese composer Alex Ho (Oxford Lieder’s new Associate Composer), Ian Venables and Elena Langer.
  • A range of ticket prices with several free events, tickets starting at just £3 and a choice of discounts and concessionary rates make the Festival accessible to all.

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The Journey about the refugee experience has its stage premiere at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2022

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A New Opera about the Refugee Experience

Marianna Suri and Jeremy Gill present The Journey

The staged premiere of The Journey, a new opera inspired by the ongoing refugee crisis, will take place on the final day of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2022 on 11 September. The Journey was composed for the Citizens of the World Choir, an amateur choir of refugees and asylum seekers that hail from all over the world, current Jette Parker Young Artist Chuma Sijeqa, and soprano Marianna Suri.

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Gilbert & Sullivan returns to Buxton, Harrogate and Great Malvern in 2022

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The 28th International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival With the Covid restrictions well behind us we can look forward to a return of the International G&S Festival to be held at Buxton (30 July – 6 August), Harrogate (10 – 21 August) and Great Malvern (8 – 10 September). The events promise to be even better … Read more

Bampton Classical Opera’s September performances of Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno 

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BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2022 – G F Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno (1707) Performances: 3 September, 7pm: Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex, TN5 6LU 11 September, 3pm: Weald Manor, Bampton, Oxfordshire, OX18 2HQ 24 September, 4pm: Summer at Breinton, Woking, Surrey, GU22 0RD Libretto: anonymous, English translation by Gilly French Conductor: Julian Perkins Bampton Classical Player This autumn Bampton … Read more