Stuart Skelton Is Peter Grimes at the Edinburgh International Festival
16/08/2017
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 [6] – Britten, Peter Grimes (concert performance): Soloists, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Edvard Grieg Kor, Collegiûm Mûsicûm, Students from the Royal Northern College of Music/Edward Gardner (conductor), Usher Hall, 13.8.2017. (RP)
Stuart Skelton © Sim Canetty-Clarke
Young Cast Sail To Success Aboard H.M.S. Pinafore in Harrogate
15/08/2017
Gilbert & Sullivan – H.M.S. Pinafore: Festival Youth Production, Harrogate Festival, Savoy Theatre, Harrogate, Yorkshire 12.8.2017 (RJW)
Photo credits © Jane Stokes (DJ Stotty Images)
A Triumphant Prom Performance of La Damnation de Faust
09/08/2017
2017 BBC PROMS 31 – Berlioz – La Damnation de Faust: Soloists; Trinity Boys Choir; Monteverdi Choir; National Youth Choir of Scotland; Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 8.8.2017. (CC)
Michael Spyres (Faust), Ann Hallenberg (Marguerite) & Sir John Eliot Gardiner (condiuctor)
(c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou
A Memorable Prom as Semyon Bychkov Conducts a Wonderfully Sung Khovanshchina
08/08/2017
2017 BBC PROMS 29 – Mussorgsky, Khovanshchina (orch. Dmitry Shostakovich): Soloists, Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, BBC Singers, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 6.8.2017. (JPr)
Khovanshchina at the 2017 BBC Proms (c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou
A Little Magic in the Air: Davis conducts the RSNO in a Thrilling Die Walküre
07/08/2017
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 [2] – Wagner, Die Walküre (in concert): Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor), Usher Hall, 6.8.2017. (SRT) Read more
A Bollywood Orfeo ed Euridice Showcases Longborough Festival Opera’s Young Artists
05/08/2017
Longborough Festival Opera’s Young Artists Production – Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice: Young Artists and Orchestra / Jeremy Silver (conductor). King’s College London’s Greenwood Theatre, London, 4.8.2017. (JPr)
Hanna-Liisa Kirchin (Orfeo) in LFO’s Orfeo ed Euridice (c) Matthew Williams-Ellis
Joyce El-Khoury’s Violetta Heads Strong Cast for a Tremendous Glyndebourne La traviata
04/08/2017
2017 Glyndebourne Festival [3] – Verdi La traviata: Soloists; Glyndebourne Festival Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra / Stefan Soltész. Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes, Sussex, 1.8.2017. (CC)
Atalla Ayan (Alfredo) & Joyce El-Khoury (Violetta) in La traviata (c) Robbie Jack
Garsington’s Season Closes on a High Note with Panufnik’s Silver Birch
31/07/2017
Roxanna Panufnik, Silver Birch (world premiere): Soloists, Garsington Opera Orchestra & Foley Artists, Garsington Opera Adult, Military, Youth and Primary Companies choruses / Douglas Boyd, Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 28.7.2017. (CR)
Garsington Opera’s Silver Birch: James Way (Davey), Sam Furness (Jack) with Community Chorus
(c) John Snelling
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