The University of Birmingham’s Elgar Concert Hall The University of Birmingham has announced its programme of lunchtime and evening concerts for 2024/24, the Barber Concerts taking place in the Elgar Concert Hall in the university’s […]
Twogether Duo and Carol Main Live Music Now was the brainchild of Lord Menuhin, and has provided talented musicians at the outset of their careers with professional performance and training opportunities, making live music accessible […]
Bavarian Radio’s series Musica Viva always seems to exude a sense of discovery, of freshness, of hope that contemporary music that matters is alive and well: we can look back, for example, to the music […]
Yuriy Yurchuk Baritone Yuriy Yurchuk sings the title role in Northern Ireland Opera‘s new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin which opens on 14 September 2024 at the Grand Opera House, Belfast, directed by Cameron Menzies […]
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Handel: Acis and Galatea – chorus – Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Handel: Acis and Galatea; Elizabeth Karani, Anthony Gregory, Chuma Sijeqa, Ruari Bowen, director: Louise Bakker, City of London Sinfonia, conductor: Michael Papadopoulos; […]
Wolf-Ferrari and Leoncavallo: Soloists; Children from Pimlico Musical Foundation; Chorus of Opera Holland Park; City of London Sinfonia / John Andrews (conductor, Wolf-Ferrari), Francesco Ciliuffo (conductor, Leoncavallo) Wolf-Ferrari – Il segreto di Susanna Production: Director – […]
Virginia Woolf: The Wavescover of the first edition, designed by Vanessa Bell Virginia Woolf’s 1931 novel, The Waves, is regarded as her most experimental, consisting of ambiguous and cryptic soliloquies spoken mainly by six characters. It […]
In commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre and dedicated to the people with lofty ideals who pursue democracy and freedom all over the world Xilin Wang (born 1936) has a high profile […]
Barbara Hepworth: Family of Man – Snape Maltings, winter 2021 (Photo: Shoel Stadlen, courtesy Britten Pears Arts) The Autumn season at Snape Maltings Concert Hall sees Britten Pears Arts presenting a wide and varied range […]
%20Ali%20Wright.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Contemporary contrasts: Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci make highly satisfying double bill at Opera Holland Park")
Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna – John Savournin – Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna; Clare Presland, Richard Burkhard, John Savournin, director: John Wilkie, conductor: John AndrewsRuggiero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci; […]
