A brand-new opera – A Feast in the Time of Plague – will be performed by Grange Park Opera, live on the stage of the Theatre in the Woods on Sunday 13 September 2020 in front of an invited audience of 250 people.
Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players: a world premiere recording
“It’s forbidden, and where’s the art in that?”
Rimsky-Korsakov – Mozart and Salieri
Mozart and Salieri, an opera in one act consisting of two scenes.
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), composer. Libretto derived from Alexander Puskhin’s play of the same name.
First performance: 7 December 1898 in Moscow.
John F. Larchet’s Complete Songs and Airs: in conversation with Niall Kinsella
Dublin-born John F. Larchet (1884-1967) might well be described as the father of post-Independence Irish music, given the immense influenced that he had upon Irish musical life during the first half of the 20th century – as a composer, musician, administrator and teacher.
Haddon Hall: ‘Sullivan sans Gilbert’ does not disappoint thanks to the BBC Concert Orchestra and John Andrews
The English Civil War is raging. The daughter of a Puritan aristocrat has fallen in love with the son of a Royalist supporter of the House of Stuart. Will love triumph over political expediency and religious dogma?
Kirsten Flagstad Born This Day 125 Years Ago
On this day, the great Kirsten Flagstad was born 125 years ago.
New titles announced for Glyndebourne Open House
Glyndebourne has announced the next two opera titles in its virtual festival, Glyndebourne Open House – Britten’s Billy Budd and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.
Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and Choral Fantasy from Harmonia Mundi
Beethoven Symphony no 9 (the Choral Symphony) in D minor, Op. 125, and the Choral Fantasy in C minor, Op. 80 with soloist Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado conducting the Freiburger Barockorchester, new from Harmonia Mundi.
Verdi’s Falstaff and Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress – new titles announced for Glyndebourne Open House
Glyndebourne has announced the next two opera titles in its virtual festival, Glyndebourne Open House – Verdi’s Falstaff and Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (pictured above).