Photo Credit: Richard Hubert Smith Glyndebourne has added an extra performance of Handel’s “Semele” to the Festival 2023 schedule. In response to the high demand for tickets, the company’s new production of “Semele” will have an added performance on August 21. Adele Thomas directs the debut performance of “Semele” starring soprano Joélle Harvey, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston, and tenor Stuart Jackson. {…}
Leeds Lieder has announced a series of recitals that it will be present this spring in anticipation of its festival, which is set to take place between June 9-17, 2023. Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston and pianist and Festival Director Joseph Middleton, will showcase music from 20th and 21st century British and American composers. Audiences will hear music by Jonathan Dove, Benjamin {…}
(Image Source: Domingo Hindoyan Official Website) The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has announced its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on classical vocal performances. The Opening Concert will feature soprano Katerina Kneziková in a performance of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. Domingo Hindoyan will also conduct Janácek’s Sinfonietta. Performance Dates: Sept. 17, 2022 Soprano Katie Coventry and {…}
(Credit: Presto Music official website) Presto Music has announced its 2021 awards. Tenor Michael Spyres was awarded for the CD “BariTenor” on the Erato label. The album ranges wide, encompassing repertoire normally assigned to both tenors and baritones. Programming 18 arias by 15 composers, it covers three centuries of opera in Italian, French and German. Marko Letonja conducts the Orchestre {…}
(Credits: Bayerische Staatsoper official website / Opera Online) The Royal Philharmonic Society has announced the recipients of its awards for 2021. Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston has been awarded in the Singer Category, while the English National Opera’s ENO Breathe received the Impact Award for the program to help Long Covid sufferers across the UK address their breathing and anxiety. The Inspiration {…}
Photo credits: Jennifer Johnston/RT Dunphy, Elizabeth Llewellyn/Frances Marshall The Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) has announced the 2021 shortlist for the Society’s annual awards. This year’s shortlist of artists and initiatives shows the important role classical music has played during an unprecedented 18-month stretch of closures and lockdowns, and how, despite the pandemic, artists have persisted in creating, collaborating, and connecting {…}
(Credits: Gerard Collett / Groves Artists official website) The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has announced a series of October and November performances. Fourteen socially-distanced concerts will take place from Oct. 1 to Nov. 4, 2020. For the purpose of this article, we will focus only on vocal works. Baritone Roderick Williams will perform a program that includes works by Finzi, Ireland, {…}
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has announced its 2020-21 season marking the final season for music director Vasily Petrenko. For this article we will only focus on vocal performances. Ian Tracey conducts the Spirit of Christmas concert with John Suchet as the present and baritone Thomas Weinhappel. The Royal Liverpool Choir and youth choir will also participate in an evening of {…}
Bamberger Symphoniker has announced its 2019-20 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on vocal and opera-related performances. Jakub Hrůša will conduct the Bamberger Symphoniker during a performance of Wagner’s Prelude to “Lohengrin.” The program will also include Bohuslav Martinů’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in G Minor, Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, {…}
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has announced its 2019-20 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on vocal performances. Soprano Anna Crookes will be joined by flutist Fiona Fulton, cellist Jonathan Aasgaard, and pianist Ian Buckle of Pixels Ensemble to perform works by Hildegard of Bingen, Dani Howard, George Crumb, Luciano Berio, and Maurice Ravel. Performance Date: {…}
The Orquesta de Euskadi has announced its 2019-20 season featuring a number of concerts and great soloists. Here is a breakdown of the vocal performances. Mojca Erdmann under Robert Trevino highlight the first program of the season with Bilboko Koral Elkartea. Performance Dates: Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2019 Vocalia Taldea will perform Holst Choral hymns in a program that also includes {…}