NEW! Surrey’s Grange Park Opera in 2020
16/10/2019
Grange Park Opera’s 2020 season
The 2020 season combines mainstays & eyebrow-raisers: the traditional and the unexpected. Sitting firmly in the latter category is a world première, The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko, promising to be one of the most discussed events of the summer.
The trump card is Ponchielli’s La Gioconda, one of the grandest of all Italian grand operas, demanding an array of vocal powerhouses. The season is rounded off by La bohème and Meet Me in St Louis and on the very last night, Grange Park Opera welcomes gorgeously costumed guest artists from The Royal Ballet. Read more
NEW! The Leeds Lieder Concert Series 2019-20
04/10/2019
Leeds Lieder announces 2019-20 Concert Series and advance information about 2020 Festival Read more
NEW! The 18th Oxford Lieder Festival from 11 to 26 October 2019
27/09/2019
OXFORD LIEDER FESTIVAL 2019
Tales of Beyond – Magic, Myths and Mortals
The 18th Oxford Lieder Festival (11 – 26 October 2019) inhabits a world of storytelling and fairy tales, from Norse legend to the Brothers Grimm, from the Grim Reaper to Greek myth. Concerts, talks and study days will explore life, death and the mysterious areas between and beyond, with other events including live magic, a film screening, a ghost trail and more. Read more
NEW! Anjali Dance Company Genius UK Tour 2019
22/09/2019
Anjali Dance Company’s Genius
Anjali Dance Company’s Genius (c) Judie Waldmann
Anjali Dance Company is on tour across the UK from now until 20 November with Genius, a double bill of work by award-winning choreographers Lea Anderson MBE and Gary Clarke. Read more
NEW! Edinburgh Usher Hall 2019-2020 Orchestral Season
02/06/2019
Edinburgh Sunday Classics 2019-2020
Karl Chapman (Director of Edinburgh Concert Series) (c) Duncan McGlynn
For some years, the series of international orchestral concerts, traditionally held on Sunday afternoons, has been a highlight in Edinburgh musical life. The season follows the Edinburgh International Festival maintaining a cultural level emphasizing the status of Scotland’s capital as the center of Scottish arts and music.
The series allows an opportunity for Edinburgh music lovers to compare the standards of the nation’s national orchestras with the best international ensembles. In the season starting in October are several well-known ‘friends’ who have visited in past years, and several orchestras who offer something quite fresh for Edinburgh audiences. Read more
NEW! Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2020 Ring Cycles
28/05/2019
Magnificent Casting and Staging Herald Chicago’s 2020 Ring Cycles
Die Walküre Act III at Chicago Lyric Opera (c) Cory Weaver
It is not just one more Ring, but a stellar cycle with world-class performers and top-notch staging: Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2019–2020 season features Wagner’s magnum opus between 13 April and 3 May 2020 — three sequences of the four operas. This is a rare opportunity to hear Wagner’s epic as he intended, on consecutive nights during a single week, and the first time to view Lyric’s new and engaging production in its entirety. Read more
NEW! Ex Cathedra’s 50th Anniversary Season in 2019-20
22/05/2019
‘From the heart’ – Ex Cathedra announces its 50th anniversary season
Ex Cathedra, the world-class choir and Early Music ensemble founded in Birmingham by Jeffrey Skidmore, has announced a typically distinctive season of concerts for its 50th anniversary season, a programme that comes ‘from the heart’ – as Beethoven wrote in the score of his Missa Solemnis, one of the highlights of the season. Read more
NEW! Geneva Grand Théâtre in 2019-20
17/05/2019
Aviel Cahn’s Forthcoming 2019-20 Season in Geneva is Reminiscent of Gérard Mortier’s Radical Approach at La Monnaie
Grand Théâtre de Genève
The next season of the Geneva Grand Théâtre has been announced. It is the first under the directorship of Aviel Cahn, whose Antwerp Opera House has just been awarded the prestigious ‘Best Company Award’, beating Vienna, London, Munich, Paris, …
This is more than a new season; it is definitely the start of a new dawn. Read more
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