The National Opera Studio (NOS) is thrilled to announce the launch of the National Opera Studio Academy, a transformative programme designed to identify and nurture emerging operatic talent from across the UK. Applications are now open for this inaugural initiative, […]
O Haupt! Music by Telemann, J. S. Bach, Janitsch and C. P. E. Bach Musica Gloria. The New Town Church, Edinburgh, 23.11.2024 Musica Gloria: Nele Vertommen, Baroque oboe; Elise Dupont, violin; Lena Rademann, viola; Anne-Linde […]
Through the noise launch music education initiative with Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason as part of homecoming tour Highlights include: Landmark tour from 26 November – 3 December, visiting 7 cities across the UK and reaching up […]
Donizetti L’elisir d’amore (sung in English, transl. Amanda Holden). Soloists; chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Teresa Riveira Böhm. London Coliseum, 20.11.2024 Production: Stage director – Harry Fehr Set designer – Nicky Shaw […]
Wolf-Ferrari’s short opera is perfect for a one-night coupling, as Opera Holland Park have proved both this year, with Pagliacci (review), and, in 2019, with Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (review). Susanna’s secret? As you can see from […]
Habibi, Beethoven, Berlioz Javier Perianes (piano); Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal / Rafael Payare. Barbican Hall, 19.11.2024 Iman Habibi Jeder Baum spricht (2020) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 15 (1795, revised 1800) Berlioz Symphonie […]
The Georgian-Israeli composer Josef Bardanashili is a major contemporary compose whose Light to my Path so imposed at the Azrieli Gala Concert in Montréal recemtly, and whose vocal works featured in this post. During an […]
As rumours of Khatia Buniatishvili’s retirement circulate (while she is due to perform in London with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields), Sony has released this recording of Mozart Concertos, Nos. 20 & 23 (plus the […]
Released on September 6, NMC Recordings album of music by Imogen Holst also celebrates 35 years of this wonderful label, The BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers excel throughout under Alice Farnham. Dating from 1929, […]
ELEVEN COMPOSERS HONOURED WITH IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS TONIGHT AT THE IVORS CLASSICAL AWARDS, INCLUDING ERROLLYN WALLEN, ROXANNA PANUFNIK AND GAVIN BRYARS #TheIvorsClassicalAwards Roxanna Panufnik, Gavin Bryars and Errollyn Wallen © Hogan Media / Shutterstock In a glittering, […]
