Barbara Cole Taylor returns to Scottish Opera for the 1980 production of Puccini’s Tosca.
Kamilla Kate Dunstan performs the role of Flosshilde for this unique concert performance of Wagner’s Das Rheingold
Following his recent performances as Guglielmo in Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra (English Touring Opera); Monsieur Triquet Eugene Onegin (Buxton Festival); and Conte Almaviva Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Pop-Up Opera) Joseph Doody plays the role of Mosquito in this colourful production inspired by a newspaper comic strip.
Yakov Strizhak performs the role of King Rene in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at St Petersburg’s leading children’s theatre company.
A charming confection with a beating heart, ETO’s period production of The Seraglio, directed by Stephen Medcalf and conducted by John Andrews, promises to be a good night out for all.
Celebrating its 37th year, l’Automne Musical de Taverny (The Autumn Music Festival of Taverny) presented a recital of Chopin, Debussy and Schubert from Philippe Cassard.
One of London’s leading chamber choirs, The Purcell Singers is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2019. They are marking the occasion with a performance of one of the masterpieces of Romantic choral music: Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. This performance is of the composer’s own arrangement of the work for piano duet.
In stark contrast with the traditional Latin mass for the dead, Brahms’ Requiem is a setting of seven passages from scripture that he chose himself in order to communicate a positive and optimistic message of consolation, hope and joy to come.
Ilker Arcayürek may currently be something of an insider tip but his star is rising fast in the opera and lied firmament. Once you have heard his golden, velvety timbre with dark baritone foundations and solid heights, this tenor will have you hooked. With his slimmed-down, flexible use of the voice, crystal clear pronunciation and natural expressiveness, Arcayürek picks up the subtlest fluctuations in mood from the text. He is.
The Leicester Symphony Orchestra celebrate their 98th season.
A concert in aid of Cape Classic supporting South Africa with Trio Présence, Petr Matêják, violin, Isa von Wedemeyer, violoncello and Ammiel Bushakevitz, piano
Petr Matêják, violin
Isa von Wedemeyer, violoncello
Ammiel Bushakevitz, piano
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LILLE & CHOIR OF THE “GEORGE ENESCU” PHILHARMONIC CHILDREN CHOIR OF THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL RADIO SOCIETY ALEXANDRE BLOCH conductor IOSIF ION PRUNNER conductor of the choir RAZVAN RĂDOS conductor of the children’s choir
The Ottawa Choral Society and an all-star solo line-up join the NAC Orchestra for this magnificent work from one of history’s preeminent composers.
Alison Rose soprano
Angharad Lyddon mezzo
Joseph Doody tenor
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
Libby Burgess piano
PHILLIPE CASSARD – Ciboure + SEP08 Récital avec Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano Berlioz, Duparc, Bizet, Gounod, Chausson, Fauré etc.
The World Premier of Jonny Greenwood’s Horror vacui for solo violin and 68 strrings with Daniel Pioro
Robin Ticciati conducts this revival of Melly Still’s much-loved production, with soprano Sally Matthews as the nymph who loses all for love. Patricia Bardon is the witch Ježibaba who takes it from her, fresh from her acclaimed performance as Cornelia in our Festival 2018 production of Giulio Cesare.
Into Opera’s brand new production of Donizetti’s comic opera, The Elixir of Love is set to be the perfect potion to get you ‘into’ opera.
CHARMIAN BEDFORD sings second woman directed by Thomas Guthrie
A season finale with Artistic Director Keith Lockhart leading hundreds of artists on the Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium stage in Mahler’s impassioned and apocalyptic Resurrection Symphony.
Tyler Duncan sings J.S. BACH · Ich habe genug, BWV 82a as part of the SummerFest 2019 with La Jolla Music Society
Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna conducted by John Andrews opened at Opera Holland Park on Monday 22nd July as part of a double bill with Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. This new production directed by John Wilkie stars Claire Presland, Richard Burkhard and John Savournin Rupert Christiansen in The Telegraph writes “with delicate orchestral colours that evoke Ravel, and something of the conversational sparkle of Verdi’s Falstaff… John Andrews conducts with grace and.
Dissonance was Valgeir Sigurðsson first solo release since 2012. Its three large-scale works are haunted by the old Western tradition, infused with the ethereal workings of electronics and sound manipulation.
As part of the Festival des Haudères a programme of duets from Mozart, Schubert, Brahms and Debussy
As part of the Festival des Haudères, chamber music with the Terpsycordes Quartet
At the Cantiere Festival in Montepulciano, the ensemble RNCM Strings and Percussion, conducted by Roger Hamilton, performs the definitive version of Claudio Ambrosini’s Tancredi appresso il Combattimento (“Tancredi After the Battle”). Directed by Matelda Cappelletti.
As part of the 34th Season of the Mazaugues Festival, a piano recital of Schumann, Brahms and Schubert
L’Inganno Felice (The Fortunate Deception), a romantic melodrama with buffo elements.
Duke Betrando’s wife Isabella is lost at sea, her boat coming ashore near a mining camp. A decade later the Duke and his entourage arrive and the predictable happens.
As part of the Bracknell Forest Arts Festival, an Evening of Popular Classics with the Westminster Chamber Orchestra
A brand new production directed by John Wilkie and conducted by John Andrews. Starring Clare Presland as Countess Susanna, Richard Burkhard as
Count Gil and John Savournin as Sante
Mozart’s most magical comedy returns to Glyndebourne for the first time in over a decade in a brand-new production by Barbe & Doucet.
The 50th Kuhmo Chamber Music on July 14−27, 2019
David Titterington returns as artistic director of the biennial St Albans Organ Festival
The World Premiere of a specially commissioned 40th Anniversary opera pasticcio, celebrating the life and times of Georgiana Cavendish, the 5th Duchess of Devonshire.
Performing the role of Triquet, the young members of the cast of Eugene Onegin are all new to the Buxton Festival.
Chiswick Choir are joining forces with Music Makers of London and the New Forest Children’s Choir The performance comprises two modern secular cantatas: Carl Orff’s dramatic Carmina Burana (1935), based on 24 poems selected from the medieval Bavarian collection of the same name. The topics, with their down-to-earth directness, are as relevant today as they were in the 13th century: fortune and wealth, the joys of Spring, the pleasures of.
As part of the Piccolo Opera Festival, Christian Federici performs the role of Belcore in Donizetti’s classic set amongst the vineyards. Conducted by Omer Arieli
Philippe Cassard invites us on a trip to the land of Schubert and Debussy