English National Ballet Announces its 2018-19 Season
14/03/2018
English National Ballet’s 2018-2019 Season
NEW! The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2018-19 Season
13/03/2018
The Cleveland Orchestra Announces Its 2018-19 Season
The Cleveland Orchestra (c) Roger Mastroianni
On 11 December 1918, the Cleveland Orchestra gave its first concert, under the direction of its founding music director, Nikolai Sokoloff. As the ensemble embarks on its second century, the Orchestra has announced a lively season to mark the occasion. Franz Welser-Möst, the ensemble’s seventh music director, will oversee a year of audience-pleasing favorites mixed with enterprising new works and neglected classics. Read more
Booking Open for Longborough Festival Opera 2018
05/03/2018
LONGBOROUGH FESTIVAL OPERA 2018
Shortly after announcing that Polly Graham will take over as Artistic Director, booking has opened for the 2018 season of Longborough Festival Opera. Read more
Leeds Lieder’s Four-Day Celebration of Art Song in April 2018
23/02/2018
LEEDS LIEDER PRESENTS POETRY INTO SONG
Leeds Lieder Festival 2018: Thursday 19 – Sunday 22 April 2018
Leeds Lieder presents – ‘Poetry into Song’ – a four-day Festival (19 – 22 April 2018) celebrating art-song, poetry and community under the Artistic Directorship of pianist Joseph Middleton. Read more
World Premiere by Novaya Opera of Pushkin – The Opera in the Theatre in the Woods
22/02/2018
PUSHKIN – THE OPERA
STAGED WORLD PREMIERE GIVEN BY MOSCOW’S NOVAYA OPERA AT GRANGE PARK OPERA, SURREY: 11-12 JULY 2018 Read more
Dartington International Summer School & Festival’s 70th
16/02/2018
Dartington International Summer School & Festival Announces its 70th Anniversary Programme
Playing in the courtyard (c) Terry Jeavons
Internationally-renowned Dartington Summer School & Festival has released the course programme for its 70th Anniversary Summer School and Festival, curated by the pianist Joanna MacGregor, that will run from 28 July to 25 August, 2018. As usual, the Festival will be centered around Dartington Hall, the 14th century Grade1listed country estate located in Totnes, Devon. Read more
UPDATED! The Winner of the Glyndebourne Opera Cup and Glyndebourne in 2018
12/02/2018
Major new international singing competition launched by Glyndebourne
Website http://www.glyndebourne.com/
UPDATE:
AND THE WINNER IS … SAMANTHA HANKEY
Samantha Hankey and Dame Janet Baker at Glyndebourne Opera Cup final (c) Richard Hubert Smith
The first winner of the Glyndebourne Opera Cup was decided tonight (24 March) as the new international singing competition reached its closing stage at Glyndebourne.
Mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey, 25, from the USA, was crowned the overall winner, receiving £15,000 and the guarantee of a role within five years at one of the top opera houses represented on the competition jury. Read more
NEW! LA Opera’s 2018/19 Season
02/02/2018
LA OPERA IN 2018/2019 Read more
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