Following the inaugural Opera Gala at last year’s Fringe, Festival soloists will return to sing highlights from the operatic repertoire.
Tyler Duncan, baritone; William Ferguson, tenor; Jasper String Quartet; Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, mezzo-soprano; So Young Park, soprano; Anna Polonsky, piano; Erika Switzer, piano; Orion Weiss, piano
Les Sons Intensifs will take place in the architectural jewel of the Notre-Dame à la Rose Hospital, while some concerts will take place in unusual places in the historic heart of Lessines. The best from a new generation of musicians will perform works by Bach, Copland, Stravinsky and Satie to delight music lovers. On the kitchen side, the menu of the opening night will have fewer services and will follow.
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
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
Recital of Songs by Vaughan Williams, Quilter & Britten as part of the ‘Summer Music in City Churches’ Festival
As part of Wimpole history Festival , Michael Morpurgo’s The Mozart Question tells the story of Paolo Levi, a world-famous performer who developed his passion for music as a young child with the help of his teacher, Benjamin.
Olivier Award-winning OperaUpClose presents the fully-staged, national tour of their new English version of Donizetti’s Mary, Queen of Scots (Maria Stuarda).
Libretto J. Barbier based on short stories by E.T.A. Hoffman Musical Director and Conductor – People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Pavel Bubelnikov Director – People’s Artist of Russia Alexander Petrov Scenography and costumes – Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Natalia Klyomina Ballet Master – Maria Bolshakova Arias and ensembles are performed from French in Russian
Summer Music in City Churches is a fledgling festival, founded in 2018, presenting beautiful music to engage, divert and inspire, in ancient and architecturally stunning churches in London’s Square Mile. Standing cheek by jowl with City offices, these churches are glorious settings in which to listen and reflect: oases of history, beauty and peace amidst the 24-7 hurly-burly of City life.
The theme for the second festival in June 2019 is WORDS & MUSIC. During a week and a half of events, you will find sumptuous settings of poetry, lyrical music inspired by poetry, plays and literature, words that illuminate music with biographical insight and context, music of significance to literary heroes and heroines, and more.
As part of the Belle Saison – Schubert : Sonate D959 en la Majeur – Debussy : Sonate D959 en la Majeur »Histoires d’eaux » avec : Reflets dans l’eau – Ondine – Poissons d’or – Brouillards – La Cathédrale engloutie – Jardins sous la pluie – L’Isle Joyeuse
Bath Cantata Group join forces with Oakfield Choir, Frome in a performance of Elgar’s wonderful oratorio The Kingdom. This work tells the story of the lives of Jesus’s disciples including the early church, the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and the events of the days after that. With full symphony orchestra, international soloists Maria Danishvar, soprano, Arabella Heaton, mezzosoprano, Joseph Doody, tenor and Craig Bissex, baritone, this concert.
Garsington Opera Fantasio – OperaFirst primary sharing workshops with Victoria Simmonds, John Barber (composer) and Hazel Gould (director)
“I am as though dead. But as a comfort to the world, with its thousands of souls, I live on in the hearts of all loving people. And that means I am not dust.”
– Michelangelo Buonarroti
We begin with Mussorgksy’s visionary Nursery cycle, in which the composer attempts to musically embody the stilted charm of a child’s patter, feelings and thoughts. We end with Shostakovich’s
Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti which captures the infamous sculptor and painter’s yearning to live longer, love better and continue creating art. Composed one year before his death in 1975, Shostakovich sets these words to music as he contemplates his own death. Join us as we embark on a musical journey of life’s ages and stages.
John Andrews conductor Guy Johnston cello MENDELSSOHN Ruy Blas ELGAR Cello Concerto DVORAK New World Symphony
Conductor : Betsy Cook Weber (USA) Soloists:- Alejandrina Vazquez (Meksyk) – soprano Sylwia Złotkowska – alto Rafał Majzner – tenor Piotr Lempa – bass
Musical Director and Conductor – People’s Artist of Russia Pavel Bubelnikov Director – People’s Artist of Russia Alexander Petrov Scenography – Alexey Levdansky Costume Designer – Elena Orlova Choreographer – Maria Kolozhvari Lighting Designer – Alexander Kibitkin