January can be a dull and depressing month, and this year it is particularly difficult to keep faith that a light will eventually shine through the darkness. But, a soul-lifting…
Month: January 2021
The Twilight of Dreams in Palermo
Il crepuscolo dei sogni burst out of Palermo’s Teatro Massimo last Tuesday thanks to YouTube streaming. The link to the resulting video is below.
Pelham Humfrey – Sacred Choral Music
Until just recently the church music of Pelham Humfrey (1647/8-74) was represented on disc with just two dedicated recordings: one from 1992 with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (Nicholas…
Opera Holland Park marks Holocaust Memorial Day in words and music
In November 2014, an exhibition opened in Brno entitled Janáček’s Most Talented Student to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the death of the Czech composer Pavel Haas. In 1941, Haas…
Royal Opera House announces two new Friday Premieres: Puccini’s Il trittico and Nureyev’s Raymonda Act III
The Royal Opera House is delighted to continue its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme, featuring a suite of online broadcasts that can be accessed by audiences around the world for just £3. Join us next Friday…
Silenced art speaks powerfully in English Touring Opera’s Shostakovich-Britten pairing
Six years before he composed the Six Romances on Verses by British Poets (namely, Shakespeare, Raleigh and Burns), Shostakovich’s career as a composer of opera came to an abrupt halt…
Opera Rara bring Donizetti’s Il Paria in from the cold
‘Entirely without merit,’ wrote one contemporary reviewer of Donizetti’s Il Paria, which received only six performances in January 1829 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and then disappeared into…
Soli Deo Gloria: Philippe Pierlot directs the Ricercar Consort and Collegium Vocale in Bach’s cantatas
Under the direction of Belgian viola da gamba player Philippe Pierlot, the Ricercar Consort continue their exploration of J.S. Bach’s sacred cantatas – an intermittent project over the last twenty…
ENO appoints Jessica Pulay to Board of Trustees
English National Opera (ENO) is pleased to announce that Jessica Pulay is joining the ENO Board of Trustees with immediate effect. Jessica Pulay has been Co-Head of Policy and Markets,…
W11 Opera announces exclusive screening of its 2020 online production, JUKEBOX
In 2020 when all the theatres across the UK were forced to close their doors, one children’s Opera company decided there was only one option: the show must go on…