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…
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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…
English Touring Opera announce the appointment of Gerry Cornelius as Music Director
English Touring Opera is delighted to announce the appointment of Gerry Cornelius as the company’s new Music Director. Born of Irish & Sri Lankan parentage and raised in south-east London,…
Opera Holland Park releases The House of Life with David Butt Philip and James Baillieu
Ahead of the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth in 2022, Opera Holland Park is releasing a performance of The House of Life. Leading British tenor David Butt Philip and the…
Tête à Tête, The Opera Festival: How to successfully put on live performances during a pandemic
Ahead of its 2021 return, Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival has released a video and other assets with key tips on how to successfully put on live performances in the new age of pandemic. The short…
Royal Opera House confirms Antonio Pappano as Music Director until 2023/24 Season
he Royal Opera House today confirms that Sir Antonio Pappano will continue as Music Director of The Royal Opera until the end of the 2023/24 ROH Season. Tony will join…
ROH’s live-streamed double bill – The Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspiel
Booking is now open for the Royal Opera House’s first live broadcast of 2021 – Bertolt Brecht’s and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspiel. Produced by the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, the double bill will be streamed live from the Main…
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…
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…
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…