%20Craig%20Fuller%20(2).jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "An interview with the Snow Maiden: I chat to Ffion Edwards about taking on the title role in Rimsky Korsakov's opera with English Touring Opera")
Rimsky Korsakov: The Snowmaiden – rehearsals – English Touring Opera (Photo: Craig Fuller) Rimsky Korsakov wrote some fifteen operas across his career yet if you discount performances by visiting companies, the number of his operas […]
Britten Sinfonia with sitarist Anoushka Shankar and percussionist Manu Delago at Barbican Hall, 2022 (Photo: Mark Allan The Britten Sinfonia’s 2024/25 season launches on 8 October with a trio of concerts (at the Barbican, and […]
Food historians Marc Meltonville and Robert Hoare Two intriguing aspects of Georgian life are being examined this month as the Handel Hendrix House is bringing Georgian food demonstrations to Handel’s kitchen, whilst at the Foundling […]
Brahms, Saint-Saens, Wolf, Schoenberg, Stenhammar, Rebecca Clarke, Hugh Wood, Weill, Britten, Jake Heggie; Laurence Kilsby, Ella O’Neill; Wigmore HallReviewed 15 September 2024 With a a remarkable combination of confidence and style, the young duo filled […]
Gazzaniga: Alcina’s Island – Inna Husieva – Bampton Classical Opera (Photo: Anthony Hall/Bampton Classical Opera) Gazzaniga: L’Isole d’Alcina (Alcina’s Island); Inna Husieva, Sarah Chae, Charlotte Badham, Dafydd Allen, Monwabisi Lindi, Jonathan Eyers, Magnus Walker, Owain […]
Director and writer Leo Doulton has quite a varied practice, he is the marketing director of Tête à Tête, whilst as a writer he has a particular interest in interactive theatre and we caught We […]
%20Belinda%20Lawley.JPG?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "All change at the National Youth Choir as they bid farewell to three principal conductors")
Greg Beardsell and National Youth Choir [Photo: Belinda Lawley] It is all change at the National Youth Choir as three principal conductors reach the end of their five-year contracts and will be finishing in their […]
Later this month violinist Jorge Jiménez and his ensemble Tercia Realidad are releasing their disc, Farinelli’s Violin on Pan Classics. The disc features arias writtens for the castrato Farinelli in new versions where it is […]
Alastair White: #CAPITAL Wikipedia defines the Metaverse as ‘a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact, usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection.The term metaverse […]
If You Died, Who Would You Choose To Haunt? Manchester-based composer and songwriter Anna Appleby‘s work includes a chamber opera-ballet Citizens of Nowhere in 2016/17, an opera, Drought in 2022, for the BBC Philharmonic and […]
