Birmingham Opera Company Names New Music Director

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(Credit: Patrick Allen) The Birmingham Opera Company has named Alpesh Chauhan its new Music Director effective July 1, 2020. Chauhan will work alongside Artistic Director Graham Vick leading the Company on its mission to “make great opera.” Chauhan was Principal Cello with the CBSO Youth Orchestra and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. He went on to perform alongside {…}

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Obituary: Board Chairman of Royal Opera Ian Taylor Dies

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(Credit: Royal Opera House) The Royal Opera has announced the death of Ian Taylor, Chairman of its Board of Trustees, at the age of 64. Taylor died from pneumonia, following a long battle with the illness. Born in 1956 in Croydon, England, Taylor grew up in North of England and went on to study at the Merton College, Oxford University, {…}

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Academy of Ancient Music Announces New Chief Executive

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The Academy of Ancient Music has announced that John McMunn has been appointed as its new Chief Executive. McMunn is set to assume the role starting on Sept. 1, 2020, taking over for Alexander Van Ingen. McMunn started off his career as an opera singer, having trained as a musicologist at Harvard and Cambridge Universities followed by some studies at {…}

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Q & A: Met Opera Concertmaster Benjamin Bowman On Falling In Love With Music, Performing Opera & Ballet

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The singers, the director, and the conductor are usually the ones to get the major spotlight in the opera world. And yet, in many respects, they wouldn’t be doing anything if not for the people that bring the musical score (the single most important document when it comes to interpreting opera)to life. That task falls on the orchestra and among {…}

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Opera Rara Announces Transfer Of Music Library

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Opera Rara has announced that it will transfer its music library to The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. The new library will be called The Foyle Opera Rara Collection in honor of The Foyle Foundation which made the donation that enabled the transfer. The Foyle Opera Rara Collection will be comprised of over 5,000 volumes of first and {…}

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Obituary: Long-Time Royal Opera Designer, Paul Brown, Dies at 57

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The Loesje Sanders agency has announced the untimely death of designer Paul Brown on November 13th, 2017. Born in Glamorgan, South Wales, Brown made his debut with the Royal Opera House in 1991 for Graham Vick’s production of “Mitridate, re di Ponto.” With the Royal Opera House, he has also designed sets for “The Midsummer Marriage,” “Falstaff,” “King Arthur,” as {…}

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New Sussex Opera to Present Charpentier’s ‘David and Jonathan’

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New Sussex Opera will present Charpentier’s “David and Jonathan” in a new English translation by Christopher Cowell this October. The production is set to open on Oct. 11 at the Windmill Theatre in Hove before touring to London’s Cadogan Hall on Oct. 20. The production marks the first time the opera has been staged in London and the South East. {…}

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Lisette Oropesa, John Holiday, Klaus Florian Vogt, Camilla Nylund & Anne Sofie von Otter lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. This week comes the release of a bel canto masterpiece with Lisette Oropesa, as well as an album dedicated to Berlin starring Anne Sofie von Otter. John Holiday also makes his album debut. Here is a look at the new releases. Maria Stuarda Naxos {…}

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Obituary: Margaret Kingsley Dies at 87

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Opera singer Margaret Kingsley has died at the age of 87. Born Cornwall, Kingsley studied in London at the Royal College of Music, and later joined the chorus at Glyndebourne. At Glyndeborune she made her debut as a soloist in 1966 as the First Lady in “Die Zauberflöte” and later went on to sing Donn Elvira and Lady Macbeth. She later {…}

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Birmingham Opera Company Names New Music Director

Obituary: Board Chairman of Royal Opera Ian Taylor Dies

Academy of Ancient Music Announces New Chief Executive

Q & A: Met Opera Concertmaster Benjamin Bowman On Falling In Love With Music, Performing Opera & Ballet

Opera Rara Announces Transfer Of Music Library

Obituary: Long-Time Royal Opera Designer, Paul Brown, Dies at 57

New Sussex Opera to Present Charpentier’s ‘David and Jonathan’

Lisette Oropesa, John Holiday, Klaus Florian Vogt, Camilla Nylund & Anne Sofie von Otter lead New CD/DVD Releases

Obituary: Margaret Kingsley Dies at 87