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Only love can bear the burden of truth: Ben Parry & Garth Bardsley on their new opera that premieres at Snape this Saturday
Ben Parry and Garth Bardsley’s My Father Cannot Speak in rehearsals with Roderick Williams at Snape [Photo: Angus Cooke / Britten Pears Arts] On 24 October, composer Ben Parry and writer Garth Bardsley‘s new opera, […]
Gamely going where few such companies dare, there is much to enjoy in New Sussex Opera’s production of Charpentier’s David and Jonathan
Charpentier: David and Jonathan – Harun Ellis Tekin, Tom Lilburn – New Sussex Opera [Photo: Colin Chapman] Charpentier: David and Jonathan (David et Jonathas); Harun Ellis Tekin, Tom Lilburn, Massimo Modoni, Daniel Chomiak, Nadiia Chaichenko, […]
Sisters are doing it for themselves: Wexford Festival Opera’s focus in 2027 will be women as creators with operas by Carolina Uccelli, Smetana & Saint-Saëns’
Wexford Festival Opera has announced its 2027 programme. Artistic director Rosetta Cucchi’s theme for next year is a tribute to the extraordinary courage, resilience and creative power of women. The three main stage operas will […]
A Handel Celebration: 25 years since the Handel House opened – The Brook Street Band, The London Handel Players & Helen Charlston will be there
Amazingly it is 25 years since the Handel House (now Handel Hendrix House) opened in London and Handel Hendrix House is celebrating. There is a concert on 10 November at Handel’s parish church, St George’s […]
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Last Night of the Proms 2026: Sheridan Smith, Beverley Knight and Ward Thomas join the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and the BBC Singers in a tribute to Dolly Parton
Last Night of the Proms takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 12 September, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds and in two parts on live TV: Part 1 on […]
AVIE maps an American pulse before an autumn of contrasts
NEWS • 7 August 2026 • Source: AVIE Records AVIE Records has opened its late-summer schedule with Rhythm Nation, a new album from New York’s PUBLIQuartet that treats rhythm as a meeting place rather than a boundary. Contemporary commissions […]
LSO Associate Artists reshape the concert format this autumn
NEWS • 4 August 2026 • Source: Baxter PR / London Symphony Orchestra Three autumn projects from London Symphony Orchestra collaborators will bring choral theatre, multidisciplinary performance and orchestral jazz to LSO St Luke’s and the Barbican. Tangram and […]
£200,000 Wolfson grant advances Smith Square restoration
NEWS • 3 August 2026 • Source: Sinfonia Smith Square Sinfonia Smith Square has secured a £200,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation for the restoration of its Grade I listed Westminster home. The award supports Doors Open: Transforming Lives […]
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