A Kind Man
A new opera by Jonathan Finney based on Susan Hill’s book
Following The Woman in Black’s three decades on London’s West End, Jonathan Finney has adapted another work by Dame Susan Hill, and this one will become his new opera, A Kind Man.
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Three Choirs Festival comes to Hereford in 2022
Three Choirs Festival launches bold new programme for Hereford 2022 The Three Choirs Festival has launched its programme for 2022, where audiences will enjoy choosing from over eighty events taking place in and around Hereford between 23 and 30 July. From the festival’s signature choral concerts to chamber music, family events, theatre and more, the … Read more
Waterperry Opera Festival 2022
WATERPERRY OPERA FESTIVAL: Waterperry House and Gardens, Waterperry, Oxfordshire, OX33 1JZ – Friday 12th August–Saturday 20th August 2022
This year Waterperry Opera Festival is celebrating its fifth anniversary with an innovative eight-day open-air festival in August 2022, that will not disappoint. Their programme will include an impressive eight productions, as well as a variety of talks, workshops, and more. Taking advantage of Waterperry’s extensive historic grounds, the festival will build on the experiences of the past four years to produce their finest festival yet.
Bampton Classical Opera 2022
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2022 – F J Haydn ‘Fool Moon’ (Il mondo della luna)
Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday 22, Saturday 23 July
Westonbirt School, Glos: Monday 29 August
St John’s Smith Square, London: Friday 16 September
Libretto: Carlo Goldoni
English Translation: Gilly French
Director/Designer: Jeremy Gray
Conductor: Thomas Blunt
Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera (Bampton, Westonbirt)
CHROMA (St John’s Smith Square)
Bampton Classical Opera’s summer 2022 production will be Haydn’s Il mondo della luna. This three act dramma giocosa from 1777 is the best-known of several operatic settings during the second half of the century of a delightfully crazy libretto by Carlo Goldoni. As Mozart was to do later with Così fan tutte, Haydn was inspired by a bizarre plot of disguise and deception to create a score of ravishing beauty and wit. How better to persuade an over-protective but gullible father to allow the marriages of his daughters than to persuade him that he has been transported to the moon?
Longborough Festival Opera Summer 2022
Longborough Festival Opera – 30 May to 2 August 2022 Wagner Siegfried – 30 May, 1, 3, 5, 7 June 2022 Longborough Festival Opera’s ambitious new Ring cycle began with critically acclaimed performances of Das Rheingold in 2019 (‘both epic and intimate’ – Opera Magazine) and a concert staging of Die Walküre in 2021 (‘as … Read more
Choir of Merton College Oxford’s Passiontide at Merton festival returns from 8 to 10 April 2022
Once More, With Passion
Award-winning Choir of Merton College Oxford marks return of Passiontide at Merton festival (8-10 April 2022) with compelling programme of music ancient and modern
Highlights include Mozart’s Mass in C minor, world premieres of works by Francis Grier, recent compositions by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Judith Bingham and James MacMillan, and sublime sacred polyphony by Gesualdo, Tallis, Byrd and Lassus
The Metropolitan Opera in 2022-23
The Metropolitan Opera announces the most new productions in ten seasons, featuring the world-premiere staging of The Hours, the company premieres of Champion and Medea, and four more: Fedora, Lohengrin, Don Giovanni, and Die Zauberflöte.
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct The Hours, Lohengrin, Champion, and La bohème
The roster of artists includes Roberto Alagna, Piotr Beczała, Angel Blue, Javier Camarena, Lise Davidsen, Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, Christine Goerke, Ryan Speedo Green, Kelli O’Hara, Matthew Polenzani, Sondra Radvanovsky, Sonya Yoncheva, and more
Debuting conductors include Manfred Honeck, Nathalie Stutzmann, and Jaap van Zweden
Ten operas will be transmitted live to cinemas across the globe as part of The Met: Live in HD series
FOR MORE ABOUT THE 2022-23 SEASON CLICK HERE
Opera Holland Park in Summer 2022
Five new productions to celebrate the return of summer
Opera Holland Park’s 2022 new productions of the classic nineteenth-century tragedies Eugene Onegin and Carmen take us from the palaces of St Petersburg to the streets of Seville. The UK premiere of Mark Adamo’s 1998 opera Little Women leads to progressive New England, where Jo March recalls her first love in the shadow of the American Civil War. A double bill of Delius’s Parisian melodrama Margot la Rouge and Puccini’s Gothic fantasy Le Villi contrasts a crime of passion with supernatural punishment, while a co-production of HMS Pinafore with Charles Court Opera proves that no one can mock English mores more successfully than the English themselves. The City of London Sinfonia returns as resident orchestra for all five productions.
For more information about Opera Holland Park CLICK HERE