This recent Marian-themed disc from the French record label Aparté brings together a trio of works by two composers four centuries apart: a single offering by the Renaissance Clément Janequin…
Wexford Festival’s Stunning Two Women
When you enter the auditorium for the performance of Mark Tutino, Fabio Ceresa and Luca Rossi’s La ciociara (Two Women), the darkened stage is fronted on the far left apron…
Red Dawn Rises Again in Wexford
The venerable Wexford Festival’s M.O. is rehabilitating forgotten operas from the past, and few are further beyond recollection than Camille Erlanger’s competent potboiler, L’Aube rouge (The Red Dawn). The libretto…
Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers’ Competition 2023 – Finalists Chosen
Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers’ Competition 2023 – Finalists ChosenPublic Final: Saturday 25 November 2023, 6pmLeonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD After an exciting first round…
New Millennium: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Signum’s latest release of 21st-century choral music is a hugely rewarding survey of anthems and organ music from living composers, many of whom are graduates of Cambridge University. With eight…
Gallery of Memories: Mary Bevan & Anna Tilbrook at the Oxford International Song Festival
There was a veritable feast of new music at this year’s Oxford International Song Festival, much of it commissioned by the Festival itself. Gallery of Memories, a song cycle by…
The Glass Eye: an important and impressive new song cycle at the Oxford International Song Festival
Introducing Alex Ho’s new song cycle, The Glass Eye, before this evening recital at the Oxford International Song Festival, Artistic Director Sholto Kynoch noted that this was the most substantial…
Filiations – Les compositrices de la Conservatoire de Paris: Oxford International Song Festival
In a review in Le Temps in 1937, Florent Schmitt commented, ‘It was, if I may say, the great feminine week: at the Concerts Lamoureux the Concerto of Mlle Jeanne…
Garsington Opera: 2024 Season Announcement
Garsington Opera is delighted to announce full details of the five operas in the 2024 Season (29 May – 31 July 2024). Opening the Festival, The English Concert under Baroque…
Announcement of the 2024 Wexford Festival Opera
Programme announced for the73rd Wexford Festival Opera80 events, 16 daysrunning from 18 October to 2 November 2024Theatre within Theatre – ‘All the World’s a Stage’ The programme for the 2024 Wexford Festival Opera…