English Touring Opera are delighted to announce a season of lyric monodramas to tour nationally from October to December. The season features music for solo singer and piano by Argento, Britten, Tippett and Shostakovich with a bold and inventive approach to making opera during social distancing.
Conductor Oliver Zeffman has commissioned the very first opera for a socially distanced world, which is now available to watch exclusively on Apple Music. Eight Songs From Isolation has been written by eight leading composers, specifically for streaming - rather than live performance - and is the first opera written for a time when the performers were unable to meet in person.
Leading freelance musicians unite in Parliament Square to call for targeted support for colleagues in the arts and entertainment sector.
Duo Lewis Murphy (composer) and Laura Attridge (writer) have launched a charitable song project entitled Notes From Isolation. The resulting songs, featuring some of the UK's top singing talent, are being released online between August and October 2020 and can be enjoyed free of charge.
The Royal Opera House is thrilled to announce an exciting, wide-ranging new line-up for its autumn programme. For the first time, extraordinary performances will be accessible online for a global audience through livestreams and for socially distanced live audiences at our home in Covent Garden. In a global first, we present a new opera in hyper-reality, alongside repertory favourites from both artistic companies.
Some of the most famous and outstanding stars from the opera world are to take part in a very special evening from Wexford Festival Opera, including Aigul Akhmetshina, Joseph Calleja, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, Ermonela Jaho, Sergey Romanovsky, and many more.
Following its successful launch in 2019, OperaStreaming streams nine operas on YouTube from the historic opera houses of Emilia-Romagna during the 2020-21 season, with fully-staged productions of Verdi's La traviata in October from Modena and Verdi'sOtello from Bologna in...
‘A brief history of song’ is the subtitle of the 2020 Oxford Lieder Festival (10th-17th October), which will present an ambitious, diverse and imaginative programme of 40 performances and events.
Bampton Classical Opera returns to the Baroque splendour of London’s St John’s Smith Square on November 6 with a concert performance of Gluck’s one-act opera The Crown, the first in the UK since 1987. The performance will also be filmed and available to watch on demand on the Bampton website from 9 November.
While many of us spent lockdown at home taking it a little easier, composer Andrew Synnott wrote an opera.
Owen Wingrave is part of the new Interim Season of 19 brand new events, all free to view online between September and December 2020.
The Arts Council has awarded innovative UK charity Music and Theatre For All (MTFA) a major new grant to develop three ambitious new projects in the wake of Covid 19.
English National Opera (ENO) will reopen the London Coliseum to socially distanced audiences on 6 and 7 November for special performances of Mozart’s Requiem. These will provide audiences with an opportunity to reflect upon and to commemorate the difficulties the nation has faced during the pandemic.
The Royal Opera House is proud to continue its curated #OurHouseToYourHouse programme into the autumn, bringing audiences the best of the ROH through a new series of Friday Premieres and cultural highlights.
After six months of closure, the Royal Opera House is thrilled to be opening its doors to the public as part of Open House London weekend, giving visitors a taste of one of the world’s most famous theatres for free.
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is thrilled to announce re:connect - an eight concert series with live socially distanced audiences at its namesake church, St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The autumn concerts will take place at 5pm & 7:30pm on two Saturdays per month with guest artists including baritone Roderick Williams, soprano Carolyn Sampson and composer-conductor-pianist Ryan Wigglesworth performing a wide range of repertoire.
Music and poetry unite and collide across centuries, from the Medieval to the Enlightenment to the present day. This year, the Oxford Lieder Festival will present a thrilling and innovative programme comprising more than forty events streamed over eight days.
The English Concert with artistic director Harry Bicket is delighted to announce a series of concerts from 1-15 October 2020. The concerts take place in historic London venues with star soloists and will be performed and streamed live to a paying audience at 7pm GMT on each performance date. The programmes include first-class vocal and instrumental works from the two pillars of the English Baroque, covering different aspects of the repertoire.
Glyndebourne has announced plans for a ‘staycation’ series of socially-distanced indoor performances, starting on 10 October 2020.
The Royal Opera House is delighted to announce two packed evenings of opera and ballet, live from our stage in Covent Garden and available to view wherever you are in the world online.
*Deborah Voigt withdraws from Vancouver Opera's production of Der Rosenkavalier* Vancouver, BC ~ American soprano Deborah Voigt, who was to make her role début as the Marschallin in the company's première production of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, has withdrawn from...
*Deborah Voigt withdraws from Vancouver Opera's production of Der Rosenkavalier*
Vancouver, BC ~ American soprano Deborah Voigt, who was to make her role début as the Marschallin in the company's première production of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, has withdrawn from the production. In informing Vancouver Opera of her decision, Ms.Voigt's personal representative stated that, "Ms. Voigt was stretched too thin and exhausted. Like many people in Florida, her personal life was unsettled by the recent hurricanes and the subsequent interruption to her schedule left her unable to complete her personal preparations [for the role.]"
The production will proceed as scheduled, with four performances at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre October 16, 19, 21 and 23, 2004.
Replacing Ms. Voigt in the cast will be soprano Carol Wilson. Ms. Wilson is a leading artist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, in Germany, where she has sung such roles as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff and Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung. She has also appeared as Marietta in Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, with Royal Swedish Opera. Her repertoire of Richard Strauss roles includes the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos, the Countess in Capriccio (both for Deutsche Oper am Rhein) and the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. Ms. Wilson has also enjoyed a distinguished career as a concert soloist, winning particular acclaim for her performances of Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915 and Strauss's Four Last Songs.
Ms. Wilson is currently performing the role of the Marschallin in a production of Der Rosenkavalier at theatre Aachen, in Germany, alternating performances with another soprano. Her most recent performance was on October 6, 2004. She was scheduled to perform in Aachen on October 19, but has arranged with theatre Aachen and her colleague to be released from that obligation.
In making the announcement of Ms. Voigt's withdrawal, Vancouver Opera's General Director, James W. Wright, said, "We are, of course, extremely disappointed. Ms. Voigt is a wonderful artist, and could have made a great contribution to this production. However, I am pleased to say that the ensemble of artists we have engaged for Der Rosenkavalier is extremely strong, and we are delighted to welcome Carol Wilson to join them in bringing this magnificent work to life. In a happy bit of serendipity, it happens that our Music Director Jonathan Darlington, who is conducting the production, has had the pleasure of working with Ms. Wilson previously, including a successful production of Falstaff." Added Wright, "We are very grateful to our colleagues in Aachen for accommodating us."
[Source: Vancouver Opera News Release, dated October 7, 2004]