Sir John Tomlinson, Emma Bell & Louise Alder Lead Grange Festival 2021 Edition

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(Credits: Opera Online website / Paul Foster-Williams / Gerard Collett) The Grange Festival has announced its 2021 edition which will feature several opera productions headline by opera’s greatest stars. Here is the breakdown of what’s in store for 2021. Britten’s operatic masterpiece “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will open the festival. The opera will feature Alexander Chance in the role of {…}

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Sir John Tomlinson & Claire Barnett-Jones Lead Grange Festival Live Performances in August

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(Credits: English National Opera official website/Benjamin Ealovega) The Grange Festival has announced a series of live performances between August 21-23, 2020. Director Sinéad O’Neill has created “A Precipice,” an outdoor immersive poetic sequence using the many natural stages offered by the buildings at The Grange. Each performance will last an hour and will be presented to small guided audiences of {…}

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Opera Forge to Present ‘Die Walküre’

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Opera Forge will present its inaugural production with two semi-staged concert performances of Wagner’s complete “Die Walküre” at the Royal Academy of Music on Nov. 22 and Dec. 6, 2026. Directed by Sir John Tomlinson and conducted by Opera Forge founder and Artistic Director Kelvin Lim, “Die Walküre” continues the company’s commitment to providing outstanding singers with the opportunity to {…}

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International Vocal Competition ’s-Hertogenbosch Announces 2026 Dates & Jury

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(Photo Credit: ©Sarah_Hickson) The International Vocal Competition (IVC) ’s-Hertogenbosch has announced details for the 59th edition of its Opera | Oratorio competition. The event is set to take place Oct. 2–10, 2026 in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. Forty singers will be chosen through live auditions across Europe, Asia, and the United States, as well as via online video submissions. These selected {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2025: Parsifal

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(Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) A new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal” is always a big deal, given the imaginative and actual scale of the work and the special aura that surrounds it – a triumph of Bayreuth marketing, truly, to try and restrict its performances for so many years. But this new staging at Glyndebourne Festival Opera signals the first time {…}

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CD Review: Pentatone’s ‘Duke Bluebeard’s Castle’

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“Bluebeard,” or Barbe bleue, may very well rank among the most disturbing of Perrault’s fairy tales. Its notoriety is such that bluebeard, in everyday language, is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a man who marries and kills one wife after another.” The storyline is precisely that—though it has a happy ending, if slaying the murderous protagonist is the type of justice {…}

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Royal Ballet and Opera 2024-25 Review: Festen

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(Photo: Marc Brenner) Mark-Anthony Turnage is among the front rank of living British opera composers. With “Festen”, which opened at The Royal Opera last week, he now has five to his name, with a sixth to follow at Glyndebourne this autumn in the form of “The Railway Children” – a less harrowing subject than this adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s 1995 {…}

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OperaWire’s 10 Operas to See in the 2025 Spring/Winter Season

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The year is at an end. But a new year brings new opera experiences and here at OperaWire, we are pumped for the potential of numerous performances. Here are the 10 productions we are most excited for in the first half of the 2025, in alphabetical order (and each company is limited to a single production on the list). Die {…}

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Longborough Festival Opera to Open Longborough Wagner Club

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Longborough Festival Opera is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Anthony Negus as its Music Director in 2025 by announcing the launch of the Longborough Wagner Club. Negus will be the Club’s Founder President, and its distinguished ambassadors include Stephen Fry, Sir John Tomlinson, Susan Bullock CBE and Alan Rusbridger. In a statement, Negus said, “I am thrilled with the launch {…}

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Sir John Tomlinson, Emma Bell & Louise Alder Lead Grange Festival 2021 Edition

Sir John Tomlinson & Claire Barnett-Jones Lead Grange Festival Live Performances in August

Opera Forge to Present ‘Die Walküre’

International Vocal Competition ’s-Hertogenbosch Announces 2026 Dates & Jury

Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2025: Parsifal

CD Review: Pentatone’s ‘Duke Bluebeard’s Castle’

Royal Ballet and Opera 2024-25 Review: Festen

OperaWire’s 10 Operas to See in the 2025 Spring/Winter Season

Longborough Festival Opera to Open Longborough Wagner Club