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Longborough Festival Opera To Launch New ‘Ring Des Nibelungen’ Production In June 2019

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The Longborough Festival Opera is set to launch a new Ring Cycle in 2019. The cycle will kick off in June 2019 with a new production of “Das Rheingold.” Per a press release, this first installment will feature showcases on June 5, 7, 9, and 11. In June 2020, Wagner’s “Die Walküre” will get a new staging, followed by “Siegfried” {…}
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Longborough Festival Opera Founders Win Wagner Society’s Top Prize

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The Wagner Society has awarded its Reginald Goodall Award to the Longborough Festival Opera’s co-founders Martin and Lizzie Graham. The Grahams are set to receive The Reginald Goodall award at a ceremony at The Royal Over-Seas League in London on March 20, 2019. The award is given to individuals who have honored the famed composer and his work. Among those previously honored with {…}
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The Longborough Festival Opera Finds An Artist Director

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Polly Graham will become artistic director of the Longborough Festival Opera. Graham, who is also a director, spent two years as Genesis assistant director at Welsh National Opera, mentored by David Poutney. She received the Independent Opera Director Fellowship 2016 and was nominated as Best Newcomer 2017 at the International Opera Awards. She recently directed “Le Vin Herbé” at the {…}
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Wexford Festival Opera 2025-26 Review: Der Zwerg

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) As well as its featured operas, the Wexford Opera Festival also puts on an array of other events, including performances of its “pocket operas,” that is, short works or abridged versions of larger works, sung to a piano accompaniment, presented in the smaller Jerome Hynes Theatre, rather than on the theatre’s main stage. One of the “pocket {…}
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20 Opera Companies Join Forces to Launch UK Opera Association

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A new organization representing the UK’s opera sector, the UK Opera Association (UKOA), has officially launched, uniting 20 founding companies to advocate for opera’s future and strengthen its presence across the country. UKOA, which was founded by Birmingham Opera Company, British Youth Opera, Buxton International Festival, English National Opera, English Touring Opera, Garsington Opera, The Grange Festival, Glyndebourne, Longborough Festival {…}
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Sondra Radvanovsky, Freddie De Tommaso, Anastasia Bartoli, Elīna Garanča & Huw Montague Rendall Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

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The International Opera Awards have announced its 2025 nominees. The nominees for Opera Company of the Year are Deutsche Oper Berlin, GöteborgsOperan, Houston Grand Opera, MusikTheater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, and Teatro alla Scala.  Meanwhile, in the Female Singer category, Anastasia Bartoli, Elsa Dreisig, Véronique Gens, Asmik Grigorian, Sondra Radvanovsky, and Adela Zaharia are the nominees.  In the Male Singer {…}
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Women Serial Killers Take Center Stage in New Opera, ‘The Hive’

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Harvey Brough and Carole Hayman’s new opera, “The Hive” makes its world premiere on Nov. 8, at The Tung in Liverpool. “The Hive” draws the research conducted by Hayman during her fellowship at King’s College, London, where she focused on real stories of women who have committed serial murder. The libretto fuses verbatim interviews with text drawing from dark fairy {…}
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Thomas Blunt Named Principal Conductor of the Coro da Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo

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Thomas Blunt has been named Principal Conductor of the Coro da Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo. The conductor took to social media and said, “Very excited to be taking up the position of Principal Conductor of the Coro da Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo next year! I have worked with the choir over nearly 15 years {…}

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