.png?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "The Continuo Foundation invites applications for its 11th round of funding with £106,000 available including a partnership with The Purcell Society")
Continuo Foundation grantee Chelys Consort with Gwendolen Martin (soprano) & David de Winter (tenor) at Banbury Early Music Festival in September 2025 (Photo: Daniel Meikle) The Continuo Foundation is inviting UK-wide applications for its 11th round […]
Goldmark: The Queen of Sheba Suite; American Romantics, Kevin SherwinReviewed 26 January 2026 Highly popular during his lifetime and up until the 1930s, Goldmark’s first opera has languished rather. Here revived in an abbreviated concert suite, […]
Mozart: Don Giovanni at Wateerperry Opera Festival in 2025 (Photo: Julian Guidera) Waterperry Opera Festival has announced details of its 2026 season, the first under new artistic director John Savournin. Headline productions are Puccini’s La […]
Sounds of Blossom returns to Kew Gardens this spring, from Saturday 14 March to Monday 6 April 2026. A collaboration between Kew Gardens and the Royal College of Music will see the colourful flowering trees in Kew’s […]
This year the Roundhouse is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the venue’s resurrection. Used as a performing arts venue from 1964, it was largely unused after 1983 and reopened in 2006 after a multi-million pound […]
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A River Runs Through It: Michael Kuhn & Schyler Vargas (who play brother Paul & Norman in Zach Redler’s new opera) on the Yellowstone River, August 2025 (Photo: Charlotte Mae Ellison) Norman Maclean’s novel A River […]
Anton Arensky Still probably best known for his chamber music, Russian composer Anton Arensky (1861-1906) managed to fit an enormous amount into his relatively short life. He wrote three operas, a ballet (which was reused […]
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda – Nino Gotoshia, Lisette Oropesa – Salzburg Festival 2025 (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) For the 2026 Salzburg Festival, the Intendant, Markus Hinterhäuser has taken Roland Barthes’ 1977 book A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (Fragments […]
In search of Youkali: The songs of Kurt Weill; Katie Bray, William Vann, Murray Grainger, Marianne Schofield; CHANDOSReviewed 20 January 2026 A profoundly satisfying and intelligently put together recital tracing Weill from Weimar Germany to […]
The 2025 Young Composers’ Workshop with ORA Singers The vocal ensemble, ORA Singers, has opened applications for its seventh national Young Composers’ programme. This offers secondary students free composition coaching with professional composers, and the […]
