Quiet Summer Evening: English Music on Somm
This rather nice compilation of approachable, broadly “pastoral” English music released by SOMM is a delight. The music is the very definition of the disc’s subtitle, “British Light Classics”. Geoffrey Bush’s Rhapsody for clarinet and […]
I don’t think though that I have ever let go of words & thoughts: mezzo-soprano Camilla Seale on her role in Vache Baroque’s modern recreation of the 17th century semi-opera The Tempest
As part of Vache Baroque’s 2026 summer opera festival they are performing a version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest based on the 1674 show produced by Thomas Betterton, what has become known as a semi-opera but which in […]
Beautiful music, beautiful places – Lammermuir Festival 2026
The Lammermuir Festival returns for 13 days of intimate and ambitious music-making in East Lothian from 8 to 20 September. It continues to be a festival shaped by place and by long-standing relationships, and builds […]
Charpentier’s tragédie en musique David et Jonathas, staged in London & the South for the first time by New Sussex Opera
New Sussex Opera’s (NSO) 2026 autumn touring production will be Charpentier’s tragédie en musique David et Jonathas. In five acts and a prologue, the work was written in 1688 for the Jesuits at the Collège […]
Drawing you into the drama: David McVicar’s production of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail returns to Glyndebourne
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Franck Saurel, Liv Redpath – Glyndebourne (Photo: Bill Knight) Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Liv Redpath, Anthony León, Michael Mofidian, Julie Roset, Thomas Cilluffo, Franck Saurel, director: […]
