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Buxton announces 2024 festival
Buxton 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…
Mid Wales Opera Shakespeare season against backdrop of funding axe
Mid 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…
Swansea City Opera’s new chamber opera Shoulder to Shoulder
Swansea 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…
English Touring Opera new season announced
English 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,…
Jennifer Smith to stand down as Executive Director of Longborough Festival Opera
Jennifer 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…
Artistic Director & CEO Guy Withers talks about Waterperry Opera Festival 2023
Waterperry Opera Festival, based at the stunning Waterperry House & Gardens in Oxfordshire, is soon approaching its sixth festival as a company. When we founded the company, with a short 3-day festival in 2018, we would never have imagined the scale to which we have grown. In 5 festivals we have produced 26 new productions…
Dorset Opera Festival stages rarely performed Massenet jewel, Le Roi de Lahore
Dorset Opera Festival is presenting Massenet’s Le Roi de Lahore which the company says has not been staged in the UK since 1879. Dorset Opera Festival Artist Director Roderick Kennedy said, “I am incredibly proud to be bringing this rare and captivating opera Le Roi de Lahore to Dorset and to the UK. Reviving a…
The Flying Dutchman – OperaUpClose
OperaUpClose and Manchester Camerata present The Flying Dutchman From the SS Great Britain in Bristol to a former turbine factory in Liverpool, a radically re-imagined Wagner masterpiece tours to waterside venues Words by Glyn Maxwell | Orchestration by Laura Bowler in association with Robin Wallington | Directed by Lucy Bradley Touring, Wednesday 28 June –…
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY AND OPERA NORTH IN TUNE WITH NEW PARTNERSHIP
Newcastle University and Opera North have announced a new three-year collaboration, with the ambition to transform performance practice and audience accessibility through an exchange of knowledge between academic research and the operatic stage. The partnership builds on the two organisations’ history of working together around the Leeds-based opera company’s regular tours to Newcastle and Gateshead….
Four new productions at Grange Festival 2023 plus evenings of jazz
The Grange Festival is presenting four new productions (Così fan tutte, Orfeo ed Euridice / Dido and Aeneas and The Queen of Spades) combining new and established singers, including Dame Josephine Barstow as the Countess in The Queen of Spades. The Festival will have three conductors – Kirill Karabits, Harry Christophers and Paul Daniel –…