Tenor Ian Bostridge’s award-winning idiosyncratic guide to, and all-embracing musing upon, Schubert’s Winterreise is subtitled ‘Anatomy of an Obsession’. The obsession is Schubert’s, the wanderer’s, Bostridge’s and our own. And,…
Author: Claire Seymour
To the New World: the Carducci Quartet and VOCES8
VOCES8’s Live from London, Spring series continues to offer diverse delights. Recent performances by Apollo 5 and Stile Antico framed The Winter House – an interactive family concert created and…
Vauxhall London Presents – Classical Vauxhall: experience exciting classical talent streamed into your home this March
We cannot be together, but we can still stay connected through music! Classical Vauxhall 2021 Thursday 18th March – Fiachra Garvey & Navarra String QuartetFriday 19th March – Tom Poster and Elena…
Leeds Lieder announce Spring 2021 recitals presented from Leeds Town Hall
Leeds Lieder are delighted to welcome outstanding artists to Leeds this spring including Dame Sarah Connolly, Gerald Finley, Fatma Said, Kitty Whately, Julius Drake and Joseph Middleton who will perform…
Oxford Lieder: Winter into Spring – the changing seasons
The weather was fortuitous for Oxford Lieder’s live, online mini-festival, Winter into Spring. Across the UK, the blossom buds and nudging crocuses were bathed in warm sunshine, the thick dawn…
Royal Opera House announces two new Friday Premieres: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Kenneth MacMillan’s Elite Syncopations
The Royal Opera House is delighted to continue its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme, featuring online broadcasts that can be accessed by audiences around the world for just £3. Join us on Friday 5 March at…
Longborough Festival Opera to stage three productions in Circus Big Top this season
Longborough Festival Opera has introduced a new venue for 2021: the Big Top. Three of the festival’s 2021 productions will take place in this new venue: Cosi fan tutte, The…
English National Opera announces new staging of Wagner’s Ring Cycle
Directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Martyn Brabbins, The Valkyrie will form the first part of a complete Ring cycle over the next five years. English National Opera (ENO) is to…
Live@Lakeside: Manchester Collective with soprano Ruby Hughes
“This music builds so much adrenaline that you feel you have to let that out at the end!” With a smile and a giggle, violinist Rakhi Singh, co-founder of the…
Alastair White’s ROBE: a ‘fashion-opera’
If Rousseau, Marx, Einstein, Lacan and Bill Gates were to collaborate on an opera, what would they create? Perhaps something not unlike ROBE by the Scottish composer and writer Alastair…