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.
Paul Kellogg, General and Artistic Director of City Opera, today announced that he will retire from the Company in June, 2007 at the end of the 2006-2007 season, his 12th with the company.
“This has been a hard decision, Mr. Kellogg said, “but I will have run two opera companies for 29 years, and that’s probably enough – for me and for the profession. It’s been a wonderfully exciting and satisfying time, and I’ve had the chance to meet extraordinary people, but it’s mostly a fifteen-hour-day, seven-days-a-week job that is probably better suited to someone forty-five years old. I’ve done the math and realize I’ll be within sight of seventy by then, which leaves just time enough to start a more rational life – whatever that is.
“As importantly, this is a good time for New York City Opera to look for new leadership and it leaves two years to conduct a search, during which I will be fully active as General and Artistic Director. The company is in a very good period artistically. We have developed a strong board and support group. And although nothing can be confirmed or discussed specifically at this point, I would say that our finally getting a new theater is more likely than not. There are still hurdles to jump, and it will take a great deal of work to bring it to completion, but the excitement of achieving it also adds enormously to the appeal of the job. I feel comfortable leaving City Opera in other hands, though I will miss it terribly. It’s an extraordinary company.”
Susan Baker, City Opera’s chairman commented, “Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg’s vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.”
Mr. Kellogg, who took on the management of City Opera in January of 1996, had been the director of the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown New York since 1979. After coming to City Opera he remained at Glimmerglass Opera as Artistic Director, allowing the two companies to share in thirty productions in ten years, with three more in preparation. Mr. Kellogg has also announced that he will leave Glimmerglass Opera at the end of its 2006 summer season.
2005-2006 marks the tenth year of Paul Kellogg’s tenure as General and Artistic Director of New York City Opera. Under his leadership City Opera has continued to flourish as one of the country’s preeminent cultural institutions, widely acclaimed for its performing excellence, innovative repertory, and mentorship of gifted young American singers and composers.
Since Mr. Kellogg’s inaugural season, City Opera has added 62 new productions to its repertory—an achievement unmatched by any other American opera company. This new work has included an acclaimed cycle of Baroque operas, innovative re-imaginings of standard and rarely performed works, and the New York and world premieres of operas by leading American composers including Michael Torke, Jake Heggie, Mark Adamo, and Charles Wuorinen. He has also overseen the company’s development of a uniquely theatrical production style which pairs visionary theater directors and designers with today’s finest young singers, winning new audiences for the art form. In 1999, under Mr. Kellogg’s aegis, VOX: Showcasing American Composers was created - the country’s only festival devoted to orchestral readings of new American operas, furthering the company’s leadership role in American opera.
In addition to his responsibilities with City Opera, Mr. Kellogg has had a twenty-five year affiliation with the Glimmerglass Opera, which he ran as General Director and where he remains Artistic Director. During his time at Glimmerglass Opera, Mr. Kellogg presided over the construction of the Alice Busch Opera Theater, one of the finest venues for opera in the country. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of OPERA America and serves on the boards of Shen Wei Dance Arts and the New York State Historical Association.
Mr. Kellogg, a native of Hollywood, California, received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas. He spent the following years studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, and taught in a lycée in the Lorraine under a French government grant while continuing his studies at the University of Nancy. He entered graduate school at Columbia University and began teaching French at the Allen-Stevenson School in New York, where in 1967 he was appointed Assistant Headmaster and then Head of the Lower School. Mr. Kellogg moved to Cooperstown, New York in 1975 to write, and three years later joined the Glimmerglass Opera.
[Source: NYC Opera Press Release, dated 15 September 2005]