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Opera Holland Park 2024 season
29th February 2024Opera Holland Park’s 2024 Season opens to press and public on 28 May with a revival of StephenBarlow’s sharp and seductive 2008 production of Tosca, new productions of The Barber of Seville(sponsored by Viking) and Acis and Galatea, three semi-staged performances of Puccini’s earlyromance, Edgar, a sensational double bill contrasting John Wilkie’s stylish 2019 staging […]
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CASTS ANNOUNCED FOR BUXTON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL’S FIVE BRAND NEW OPERA PRODUCTIONS
2nd February 2024Buxton International Festival (4-21 July) has announced the line-up of artists for its five new opera productions this summer. Adrian Kelly, artistic director, said: “This summer’s season contains a huge range of repertoire, and the Festival has once gone all out to assemble a formidable line-up of soloists.” Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Ernani’,July 6, 10, 12, 14 […]
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New executive director at Longborough Festival Opera
12th January 2024Emily Gottlieb has been appointed LFO’s new Executive Director from April 2024. Emily has served as Chief Executive of the National Opera Studio for nine years, following 15 years with the Royal Opera House. Emily Gottlieb said: “I’m thrilled to join the Longborough team, especially in this exciting and ambitious year where this intrepid company […]
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The Handmaid’s Tale returns to the English National Opera
10th January 2024The Handmaid’s Tale returns to the English National Opera 1 February – 15 February Following its premiere in April 2022, this production won the Broadway World Award for Best Classical/Opera Production, and was nominated for both the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards in the Opera and Music Theatre Award category and the International Opera Awards in the […]
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Mid Wales Opera funding cut appeal as tour gets underway
19th October 2023Mid Wales Opera’s ‘Beatrice & Benedict’ enthrals audiences and impresses critics as it begins SmallStages Tour while Arts’ Council Wales consider their appeal following their withdrawal of funding earlier this month. MWO said it is delighted with the success of their tour so far following the opening night of “Beatrice & Benedict” earlier this month […]
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Buxton announces 2024 festival
17th October 2023Buxton International Festival (BIF) is celebrating an exceptional 2023 festival which far exceeded attendance expectations with sell-out events and accolades across the board. Once again, the Festival’s cutting-edge opera programme emerged as the greatest draw with its popular books programme a close second. On the back of this fantastic year, the Festival announces its plans […]
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Mid Wales Opera Shakespeare season against backdrop of funding axe
9th October 2023Mid Wales Opera are back on the road this season with two Shakespearean operas. In March next year the company presents its first ever production of Verdi’s great masterpiece Macbeth. Before that, this autumn, the company presents Berlioz’s effervescent Beatrice and Benedict, based on Shakespeare’s comedy Much ado about nothing. However, the tour comes against […]
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Swansea City Opera’s new chamber opera Shoulder to Shoulder
9th October 2023Swansea City Opera’s new chamber opera Shoulder to Shoulder will tour in November with a five-strong cast. It has been created through Swansea City Opera’s partnership with the charity Men’s Sheds Cymru, which develops social groups for older men. Through interviews with Shedders, as members of Sheds are known, the Artistic Director of Swansea City […]
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English Touring Opera new season announced
13th September 2023English Touring Opera (ETO) has announced its Autumn tour as an exploration of themes of love, power and how the two interact. There will be two brand-new productions of Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea and Rossini’sCinderella. The first tour to be programmed by General Director Robin Norton-Hale since taking upthe role in January this year, […]
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Jennifer Smith to stand down as Executive Director of Longborough Festival Opera
13th September 2023Jennifer Smith is standing down as Executive Director of Longborough Festival. She will be taking on the role of Domestic Bursar at Balliol College. Smith took up the post of Executive Director in 2014. Under her leadership, Longborough Festival Opera has undergone a period of significant expansion. Alongside operational changes, the charity’s turnover has grown […]
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