ne year on from the initial LIVE From London, The VOCES8 Foundation presents a festival exploring cycles of renewal and regeneration in nature and spirit. A first for LIVE From London, VOCES8…
Author: Claire Seymour
Wagnerians Live in Concert
So, after months of serving as the immensely professional, amiable and modest host of the Metropolitan Opera’s Met Stars Live in Concert series, soprano Christine Goerke finally got her own…
A Soldier’s Tale for our time: a captivating new film from the Hallé
One bright morning in mid-February 1919, a crowd of a million people gathered in New York to welcome home the 15th Infantry Regiment of New York’s National Guard, who had…
A magical marriage of Occident and Orient: Fleur Barron at Leeds Lieder
‘Dreams, Homeland and Childhood’ was an apt title for Fleur Barron’s Leeds Lieder Festival recital with pianist Joseph Middleton. Born in Northern Ireland, to a British father and Singaporean mother,…
Re-Wilding the Wasteland: I Fagiolini return to Live from London
I Fagiolini’s third contribution to VOCES8’s Live from London series took its inspiration and its structure from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, a poem described in the introductory programme note…
Free opera broadcasts from Glyndebourne return this summer
Glyndebourne Open House returns this summer with a series of free online streams of some of Glyndebourne’s best-loved productions. Glyndebourne Open House first launched in May 2020 as a virtual…
Scottish Opera celebrates 50 years of pioneering outreach and education work
In the 50th anniversary year of its Outreach and Education programme, Scottish Opera announces new projects to connect with communities across Scotland A package of digital initiatives for primary school children…
Royal Opera House announces packed schedule for Spring and Summer
The Royal Opera House is delighted to announce more details of its packed schedule of in-person and streamed Spring and Summer performances, with public booking opening on 7 May 2021 and the doors opening to socially-distanced, in-person audiences from 17 May 2021. Both The Royal Ballet and The…
ETO announce Autumn 2021 tour of Amadigi
English Touring Opera are delighted to announce a return to live performance from October 2021 with a national autumn tour of Handel’s Amadigi. The company has stayed connected with its…
Winners announced at 2021 International Opera Awards
The much-anticipated winners of the 2021 International Opera Awards sponsored by Mazars were tonight [10 May 2020] announced in an online ceremony watched around the world. The Awards, considered opera’s…