The Royal Opera House is proud to continue its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme with Tony and the Young Artists, a celebration of music and song on Friday 19 February at 7pm GMT and our next Friday Premiere, The…
Author: Claire Seymour
Garsington Opera announces Youth Company opera commissions 2021/2022
OPERA ANNOUNCES TWO MAJOR OPERA COMMISSIONS FOR 2021/2022 The operas will be performed by community participants with professional adult soloists. Garsington Opera Youth Company gives young people the opportunity to…
Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczała: Met Stars Live in Concert
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…
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…
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,…
The Britten Sinfonia create subtle but stirring sonic worlds at Wigmore Hall
Old and new were interwoven in this concert presented by soprano Jennifer France and five members of the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Jack Sheen. The ancient warp was the music…
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…