The Board of Wexford Festival Opera has announced Rosetta Cucchi as the new Artistic Director of the Festival. She will take up the six-year position when the current Artistic Director David Agler finishes his tenure after the 2019 Festival.
Category: Commentary
Unknown, Remembered: in conversation with Shiva Feshareki
It sounds like a question from a BBC Radio 4 quiz show: what links Handel’s cantata for solo contralto, La Lucrezia, Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, and the post-punk band Joy Division?
Bampton Classical Opera to perform Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors
Gian Carlo Menotti’s much-loved Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors was commissioned in America by the National Broadcasting Company and was broadcast in 1951 – the first-ever opera composed specifically for television. Menotti said that it “is an opera for children because it tries to recapture my own childhood”.
Kings College, Cambridge launches as curator on Apple Music
November 5, 2018, Los Angeles, CA: Today, King’s College Cambridge announces the launch of the College as a curator on Apple Music.
Royal Opera House’s Music Director Sir Antonio Pappano extends tenure to 2023
Sir Antonio Pappano, Music Director of the Royal Opera House, has confirmed that he will remain in position until at least the end of the 2022/23 Season.
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera to Present Caccini’s Alcina
The GRAMMY-Winning Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Opera Series
presents Francesca Caccini’s Alcina on Thanksgiving weekend
– November 24 & 25 in Boston and November 26 & 27 in New York
City
The Royal Opera House lets everyone in on the act
The Royal Opera House today opens the doors to its transformed new home, following an extensive three-year construction project.
Two of Garsington Opera’s 2018 productions to reach a wider audience
Garsington Opera is delighted to announce that on Saturday 6 October, BBC Radio 3’s ‘Opera on 3’, will broadcast the production of its first festival world premiere – The Skating Rink by David Sawer set to a libretto by Rory Mullarkey based on a novel by Chilean author Roberto BolaÒo.
Remembering and Representing Dido, Queen of Carthage: an interview with Thomas Guthrie
The first two instalments of the Academy of Ancient Music’s ‘Purcell trilogy’ at the Barbican Hall have posed plentiful questions – creative, cultural and political.
Pl·cido Domingo awarded Honorary Fellowship of the International Opera Awards
A patron of the International Opera Awards since their inception, legendary tenor Pl·cido Domingo will receive the first ever Honorary Fellowship of the Opera Awards Foundation at a fundraising evening on Monday 28 January at the Royal Society of Arts, London.