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The Grange Festival Teams Up with Laidlaw Opera Trust for New Audience Building Partnership

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The Laidlaw Opera Trust will partner with The Grange Festival to help the organization build audiences, attract younger opera goers, and utilize data systems to help with its outreach. The two started working together in 2025 with Laidlaw Opera Trust providing the Festival with a data-led audience recruitment campaign and recruited new skills into the team. Other tactics included offering {…}

News

Updates on Summer Festivals Canceled Due to Coronavirus Outbreak

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***We will update this article as more cancellations are announced. The coronavirus has affected a number of summer festivals. After the cancellation of the Grange Park Opera and the delay of the Glyndebourne Festival, many festivals are weighing in on the summer. The Buxton International Festival has canceled its summer festival which was scheduled for July 2 – 18, 2021. {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Soprano Charlotte Bowden On Her Performances In Works By Monteverdi & Purcell

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OperaWire met up with English soprano Charlotte Bowden between performances of Monteverdi’s “Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria” and a double Purcell bill of “Hail! Bright St. Cecilia” and “Dido and Aeneas” at the Ravenna festival, in which she was essaying the roles of Melanto, a solo soprano and Belinda, respectively. Although she only recently graduated from the Royal College {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Holland Park 2021 Review: Wonderful Town

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(Image (c) Danny Kaan) Opera Holland Park features several collaborations thorughout its 2021 summer season, offering much-needed work to a myriad of freelancers from across the theatre world. Charles Court Opera will join OHP for a “Pirates of Penzance” in August; British Youth Opera will bring Rossini’s “L’occasione fa il ladro;” Waterperry Opera Festival are coming to town with a {…}

News

Amanda Majeski Headlines National Student Opera Society’s New ‘Opera Insights’ Online Series

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(Credit: Fay Fox) The National Student Opera Society is set to launch a new online series starting on Monday, April 27, 2020. The series, known as “Opera Insights” will feature several Zoom meetings with major industry figures; these meetings will take on a Q & A format in which participants will discuss how the lockdown affects the industry and what {…}

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Opera Awards Foundation Unveils 2019 Bursary Recipients

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The Opera Awards Foundation has announced the 2019 bursary recipients. In sum, there are 14 winners, including mezzo-soprano Anna Starushkevyich, soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano Caroline Modiba, soprano Claire Lees, soprano Ella Taylor, baritone Jack Holton, soprano Jacqueline Piccolino, counter-tenor Kieron Connor Valentine, mezzo-soprano Kseniia Nikolaieva, baritone Luvuyo Mbundu, soprano Sarah-Jane Lewis, conductor Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue, director Xolane Marman, and the Waterperry {…}