‘Hamilton Harty is Irish to the core, but he is not a musical nationalist.’
Year: 2020
Full cast and creative team announced for ENO Drive & Live at Alexandra Palace
The English National Opera (ENO) announces the full details of the first ENO Drive & Live – Europe’s first live drive-in opera production that audiences can safely experience from their cars.
Monteverdi: The Ache of Love – Live from London
There’s a “slide of harmony” and “all the bones leave your body at that moment and you collapse to the floor, it’s so extraordinary.”
ROF Streams Rossini’s
La cambiale di matrimonio
The Rossini festival of Rossini’s hometown, Pesaro, streams the premiere of its new production of La cambiale di matrimonio, Rossini’s second opera on August 8 (and briefly “on demand” after).
Glyndebourne Open House – Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Brett Dean’s Hamlet
Glyndebourne has announced the next two opera titles in its virtual festival, Glyndebourne Open House – Handel’s Giulio Cesare (pictured) and Brett Dean’s Hamlet.
Grange Park Opera announces 2021 season
It’s been a ‘challenging’ year, but what has kept us going is to focus on the future: 2021 at Grange Park Opera, Surrey, 10 June – 17 July.
After Silence: VOCES8
‘After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music.’ Aldous Huxley’s words have inspired VOCES8’s new disc, After Silence, a ‘double album in four chapters’ which marks the ensemble’s 15th anniversary.
Beethoven’s Songs and Folksongs: Bostridge and Pappano
A song-cycle is a narrative, a journey, not necessarily literal or linear, but one which carries performer and listener through time and across an emotional terrain. Through complement and contrast, poetry and music crystallise diverse sentiments and somehow cohere variability into an aesthetic unity.
Snape Maltings Concert Hall to reopen for live performances with audience from 7 August
Britten Pears Arts is thrilled to announce that it will host live music-making again in Snape Maltings Concert Hall from Friday 7 August, becoming one of the first venues in the UK to return to regular concerts for a live audience.
Garsington’s Fidelio in Concert: BBC Radio 3 broadcast
Garsington Opera is delighted to announce that its Fidelio in Concert will be broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on Saturday 26 September, 6.30pm.