One of the nicest things about being lucky enough to enjoy opera, music and theatre, week in week out, in London’s fringe theatres, music conservatoires, and international concert halls and opera houses, is the opportunity to encounter striking performances by young talented musicians and then watch with pleasure as they fulfil those sparks of promise.
Month: July 2020
English National Opera announces new Harewood Artists for Summer 2020
English National Opera (ENO) today announces that three new singers will be joining the Harewood Artists programme this summer.
“Opportunity will come from crisis”: Polly Graham, Artistic Director of Longborough Opera, in conversation
It’s ingrained in theatre-makers: “Make a show.” As she prepares to announce some new events and performances that will take place in forthcoming weeks, as well as Longborough Festival Opera’s 2021 productions, Artistic Director Polly Graham reflects on the very difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Longborough Festival which she was forced to take.
The ReGeneration Festival 2020
Grand open-air celebrations in the Boboli Gardens of Florence’s Palazzo Pitti for this year’s transformed New Generation Festival
A family-friendly Friday Premiere – ROH and the Roundhouse presents ZooNation’s The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
The Royal Opera House is proud to continue its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme throughout the summer, announcing the Friday Premiere screening of ZooNation’s The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party on Friday 31 July at 7pm BST.
Verdi’s Falstaff and Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress – new titles announced for Glyndebourne Open House
Glyndebourne has announced the next two opera titles in its virtual festival, Glyndebourne Open House – Verdi’s Falstaff and Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (pictured above).
A Feast in the Time of Plague: Britain’s first new opera commission since lockdown, at Grange Park Opera
A brand-new opera – A Feast in the Time of Plague – will be performed by Grange Park Opera, live on the stage of the Theatre in the Woods on Sunday 13 September 2020 in front of an invited audience of 250 people.
Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players: a world premiere recording
“It’s forbidden, and where’s the art in that?”
The Two Summer Festivals That Can
Against all odds the festivals of Salzburg and Rossini’s Pesaro are forging ahead this summer with real, live opera, though the limited programs and scarcity of tickets may discourage us from journeying to Austria or Italy in August. Would that we could!