When the Government announced the national lockdown, Grange Park Opera, Surrey – like all cultural venues across the world – was forced to close its doors and fall silent.
That was until its indefatigable founder Wasfi Kani refused to accept defeat, and created The Found Season.
Grange Park Opera launches summer season of free-to-view brand-new work featuring stars such as Sir Bryn Terfel & Tamara Rojo
TÍte ‡ TÍte Launches a Manifesto for A Real Opera Festival In An Imaginary World
TÍte ‡ TÍte: The Opera Festival 2020 will, without a shadow of a doubt, take place in the realm of the imagination, and might even welcome audiences to performances in the real world as well.
Two song cycles by Sir Arthur Somervell: Roderick Williams and Susie Allan
Robert Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Charles Kingsley, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A.E. Housman … the list of those whose work Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937) set to music, in his five song-cycles, reads like a roll call of Victorian poetry – excepting the Edwardian Housman.
Roger Quilter: The Complete Quilter Songbook, Vol. 3
Mark Stone and Stephen Barlow present Volume 3 in their series The Complete Roger Quilter Songbook, on Stone Records.
Richard Danielpour – The Passion of Yeshua
A contemporary telling of the Passion story which uses texts from both the Christian and the Jewish traditions to create a very different viewpoint.
Opera Holland Park: Un ballo in maschera – a new film with City of London Sinfonia
Opera Holland Park’s acclaimed 2019 production of Un ballo in maschera will be streamed via OHP’s YouTube channel and website from 7.30pm on 2 June 2020, to mark what would have been the opening of the 2020 Season and raise a toast to better times and a return to Holland Park.
Les Talens Lyriques: 18th-century Neapolitan sacred works
In 1770, during an extended tour of France and Italy to observe the ‘present state of music’ in those two countries, the English historian, critic and composer Charles Burney spent a month in Naples – a city which he noted (in The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771)) ‘has so long been regarded as the centre of harmony, and the fountain from whence genius, taste, and learning, have ?owed to every other part of Europe.’
The Mozartists launch ‘RE-LIVE’ with Download of Ann Hallenberg Concert
Classical Opera and The Mozartists are delighted to announce the launch of ‘RE-LIVE’, a new initiative undertaken in collaboration with the recently established music platform Exit Live. Each month between…
Beethoven Matters: Garsington Opera at Home
250 years since his birth, 2020 should have been resounding with Beethoven. But what precisely has made his music endure all these years and how can we celebrate his legacy from lockdown?
A breath of fresh air: Opera Holland Park announces 2021 season
Opera Holland Park’s 2021 season with resident orchestra City of London Sinfonia will open on 1 June with new productions of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Jana?cek’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz, and a revival of the company’s celebrated 2018 staging of Verdi’s La Traviata. On what would have been the opening night of the 2020 season OHP is pleased to look to the future.