Day: 15 October 2022
Academy of Ancient Music announces 2022/23 season: ‘Tis nature’s voice
15th October 2022Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) has unveiled plans for its 2022/23 season. The orchestra presents a year-long exploration of the environment and our place within it, entitled ‘Tis nature’s voice. The season includes performances at the Barbican, Milton Court Concert Hall, West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge and The Apex in Bury St Edmunds. Tues 4 Oct 2022 […]
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Anthony Hermus returns to conduct Opera North for Ariadne auf Naxos
15th October 2022Antony Hermus launched his 2022-23 season with his inaugural concert as Chief Conductor Designate ofthe Belgian National Orchestra on 9 September 2022 and returns to Opera North as Principal GuestConductor for new production of Ariadne auf Naxos (18 February – 24 March 2023) Conductor’s schedule this season includes world premieres of works by Unsuk Chin […]
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Full cast for Rape of Lucretia at Snape
15th October 2022Britten Pears Arts today announce full casting details for The Rape of Lucretia. This new staging of Benjamin Britten’s unsparing chamber opera opens at Snape Maltings, Suffolk as part of its Britten Weekend on 29 and 30 October, before this new production is on stage at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House from 13-22 November. […]
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Ukrainian opera star Yuriy Yurchuk leads a special one-off fundraising concert in support of Ukraine.
15th October 2022Royal Opera House principal artist and Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk will be joined by a host of international singers including Armenian soprano Anush Hovhannisyan and American soprano Alexandria Wregglesworth, accompanied by pianist Ed Batting, for an evening of world-class music in this special one-off fundraising concert. The night will feature a programme of much-loved arias […]
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Grange Festival 2023 season
15th October 2022The Grange Festival 2023 season sees four new productions (Così fan tutte, Orfeo ed Euridice / Dido and Aeneas and The Queen of Spades) by daring creative teams, with a blend of young, talented singers and established names, notably Dame Josephine Barstow as the Countess in The Queen of Spades. Continuing its cycle of operas […]
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Cherry Town Moscow from WNO Youth Opera
15th October 2022As the headlines in the news have inevitably stoked an anti-Russian sentiment which is at risk of extending from the political decision-makers to the Russian people who too are their victims – and as episodes of censorship suggesting the erasure of all things Russian-related have repeatedly been pointed out in recent month – it is […]
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