(Photo credit: Britten Pears Arts) Britten Pears Arts released the details of its activities plan for Spring 2025. For the purposes of this article only vocal events are included. The English Touring Opera presents Bellini’s “The Capulets & The Montagues,” directed by Eloise Lally. Alphonse Cemin conducts. Performance Date: March 29, 2025 “Singing Afternoon with John Rutter” is open to {…}
(Photo credit: Richard Hubert Smith) Britten Pears Arts has released the details of its Autumn 2024 season. Only opera and vocal events are included in this article. Singers and instrumentalists from the Composition and Performance course present Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” in a masterclass led by soprano Claire Booth and conductor Jonathan Berman. Performance Date: September 17, 2024 (Peter Pears Recital {…}
(Photo credit: Dan Nickells) Roger Wright CBE, the chief executive of Britten Pears Arts, has been awarded a knighthood in HM The King’s Birthday Honors List for Services to Music. In 1978, Wright began his career at the British Music Information Centre. He worked as a freelance writer and broadcaster with specialist knowledge of British 20th century music, and held {…}
Britten Pears Arts announced the launch of a three-year, £13.4 million capital program helping the organization maintain and further its mission. The endeavor ensures Britten Pears Arts’ buildings and sites have improved accessibility for everyone, starting with moving forward with updates to the Snape Maltings Concert Hall. Other uses for the investments are to ensure financially sustainable, and aid the {…}
(Photo credit: Carlotta Luke) Britten Pears Arts announces Andrew Comben as its new Chief Executive Officer. Comben joins Britten Pears Arts from the Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival where he has served as the Chief Executive since 2008. Originally from Australia, he has worked in the arts in the UK since 1993, and in senior leadership roles at Wigmore Hall {…}
(Photo credit: Edmund Choo, Zaira Biagini, & Simon Goldsmith) The English Touring Opera and Britten Pears Arts have released the casting for its new c0-production of Dame Judith Weir’s “Blond Eckbert.” Baritone Simon Wallfisch returns to the English Touring Operas for the first time since 2015, in the title role. He is joined by soprano Aoife Miskelly, who sings the {…}
(Photo credit: Philip Vile) Britten Pears Arts announced the first half of its 2024 season. Laura Bowler, Diana Soh, Nwando Ebizie, and Sivan Cohen Elias collaborate on a week-long residency working on three new commissions. The pieces all which are specifically designed to expand Laura’s practice as a performer will be presented at the end of the residency. Performance Date: {…}
(Credit: Philip Vile) Britten Pears Arts has unveiled its Autumn 2023 season. Here is a rundown of the classical vocal performances. Mezzo Anna Huntley and pianist Lucy Colquhoun present a recital of songs by Schubert, and Britten, among others. Performance Date: Oct. 6, 2023 There will be two “Scratch Choir days.” The first features music by Emma Lou Diemer and Vaughan {…}
Photo: Camilla Greenwell/Royal Opera House 2023 The Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House has been home to some of the most incisive and bracing opera happening at Covent Garden in recent times. Work there has been self-consciously political, physical and experimental. Most notable is Laura Bowler’s “The Blue Woman,” directed by Katie Mitchell, Oliver Leith’s “Last Days,” and “Least {…}
Britten Pears Arts announced its lineup for the coming months. The company will present a wide range of musical activities including fan-favorite operas as well as new operas, premieres, headlining performers, orchestral concerts, education programs, and more. This article will only feature vocal-related events. Running January to April the Britten Pears Young Artist Program will present Friday Lunchtime Concerts. All {…}
Britten Pears Arts has announced its Autumn 2022 season that includes “The Blue Woman,” a new opera by Laura Bowler and Laura Lomas, a new production of “The Rape of Lucretia,” and Britten song cycles performed by opera stars. Here’s the lineup. Composer Laura Bowler and librettist Laura Lomas’ new opera, “The Blue Woman,” explores the aftermath of sexual violence, {…}