Buxton G&S Festival Fringe 2011 – Sparkling Dancing and Costumes for Sandy Wilson’s ‘Boy Friend’
08/08/2011
United Kingdom Sandy Wilson, The Boy Friend: Soloists and Chorus of Northwest Productions, Liverpool University, Gilbert & Sullivan Fringe Festival, Buxton, 2.8.2011 (RJW) Read more
Longborough Festival Opera 2011 – Wagner’s Siegfried
31/07/2011
United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2011 – Wagner, Siegfried: (New production) Soloists, Longborough Festival Opera Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Negus, 28.7.2011 (JPr) Read more
Vignette’s apocalyptic La Bohème in an Underground Bunker
28/07/2011
Puccini, La Bohème: New production by Andrew Staples with soloists and orchestra conducted by Steven Moore. Village Underground, Shoreditch, London, 26.7.2011. (JPr) Read more
New Devon Opera’s Country House Carmen
24/07/2011
Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of New Devon Opera, Paul Foster (conductor ) The Marquee at Ugbrooke Park, Chudleigh, Devon, 23.7.2011 (BK) Read more
The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme Summer Performance
20/07/2011
Veneziana , Jette Parker Young Artists Programme Summer Performance: Rodula Gaitanou (director), Simon Bennison (lighting design), Mandy Demetriou (choreographer), Soloists, Orchestra of Royal Opera House; Paul Wynne Griffiths, Volker Krafft and Geoffrey Paterson (conductors). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 17.7.2011 (JPr) Read more
‘Sleepless’ promenade opera at Cardiff Coal Exchange
17/07/2011
Deazley, The Sleeper: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Youth Opera, The Coal Exchange, Cardiff, 15.7.2011 (GPu) Read more
Buxton Festival 2011 – Breaking new ground with three distinctive home grown productions
14/07/2011
Buxton Festival 2011 – Donizetti, Handel and Thomas: Soloists, Buxton Festival Chorus and Orchestra, 9-11.7.2011 (RJF) Read more
An Estimable Nozze di Figaro from Opera Holland Park
13/07/2011
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro : Soloists, Opera Holland Park Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Willis (conductor). Opera Holland Park, 10.7.2011 (MB) Read more
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