“Asie, Asie, Asie. Vieux pays merveilleux des contes …” At the start of Ravel’s Shéhérazade, Tristan Klingsor’s Arabian princess proffers a languorous introduction to that ‘old marvellous land of tales’, and…
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Venice Music Biennale announces award of Golden Lion to composer Kaija Saariaho and Silver Lion to Neue Vocalsolisten
This year’s Venice Music Biennale is composer Lucia Ronchetti’s first as Artistic Director and as part ofthe activities planned for the Biennale, Ronchetti has chosen composer Kaija Saariaho to be…
A charming L’heure espagnole from Grange Park Opera
Grange Park Opera’s latest online production is a horophile’s fantasy fulfilled. For one hour, Toledo is transported to Kensington Church Street where, amid the grandfather, cuckoo, mantel, hook-and-spike and lantern…
The Royal Opera House reveals highlights of its first full Season since 2019
The Royal Opera House is excited to share early plans for its 2021/22 Season, the first full Royal Opera House Season since 2019. Today we reveal highlights including five world…
ETO to launch Digital Season with Easter Sunday broadcast of St John Passion
ETO at Home: ETO launching its new streaming platform on the company’s website. St John Passion: ETO will launch its 2021 Digital Season on the platform with St John Passion on Easter Sunday…
Bampton Classical Opera 2021 Season Announcement
Bampton Classical Opera’s 2021 season develops a particular Bampton interest in the inexplicably neglected works by one of the most significant 18th century operatic masters, CW Gluck. In The Crown,…
Dame Emma Kirkby and Friends: Abiding Love
Dame Emma Kirkby’s Live from London, Spring concert coincided with Mothering Sunday, and Kirkby and the ‘Friends’ whom she had invited to perform with her had curated an eclectic and…
Schubert’s Women: a recital of poetry and song
Schubert’s Women, a programme of lieder and poetry,was born from a serendipitous collaborative pairing during a summer lieder master-course at the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden in 2017, which brought together the…
Das Rosenband: Inga Kalna presents Strauss alongside some Latvian gems
It’s probably fair to say that Latvian composers don’t feature greatly on even the most avid classical music aficionado’s radar. When I reflect, only the names of Ēriks Ešenvalds and…
Date announced for International Opera Awards 2021
2020 winners to be revealed in virtual event on Monday May 10Exclusive performances from stars of the opera worldEvent will raise funds for Artist Hardship Fund#OperaAwards2021 The International Opera Awards…