(Photo credit: Dale Hodgetts) The Three Choirs Festival releases the highlights of its Worcester 2027 season. The Festival runs July 24-31, 2027. Britten’s “War Requiem” is performed by soloists soprano Elizabeth Watts, tenor Peter Hoare, and baritone David Stout, with the Festival Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra. Performance Date: July 24, 2027 The Three Cathedral Choirs present Handel’s “Four Coronation Anthems.” {…}
Columbia University’s Miller Theatre announces its line up for the 2025-26 season. This article only features classical voice works. The season opens with a special concert in honor of Tania León, the 2025 recipient of the William Schuman Award given by Columbia University School of the Arts. The program showcases her body of work. Sorpanos Rachel Doehring Jackson and Sophie {…}
(Photo by Rob Youngson) San Francisco Early Music Society will present the Gesualdo Six in a performance of “Secret Byrd.” Set for July 17 and 18, 2025, the showcase is described as an “immersive theatrical production” by Concert TheatreWorks in collaboration with Wildcat Viols and will be staged by candlelight in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Audiences will be able to {…}
Revels is set to present “Secret Byrd” from Oct. 31 – Nov. 2, 2024 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Boston. The event, which is produced by Concert Theatre Works and directed / created by Bill Barclay, features The Gesualdo Six as they celebrate the 400-year legacy of the famed English composer William Byrd. “Revels is thrilled to bring ‘Secret Byrd {…}
(Photo credit: Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre at Columbia University) The vocal performances included in the 2023-24 season at Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts are listed below. “John Zorn at 70” is a three-concert celebration for the composer’s birthday. Each performance in the series explores a different facet of Zorn’s canon. Soprano Barbara Hannigan will perform many {…}
Photo: Mark Allen A 400th anniversary means a flock of Byrds this year. But few opportunities to hear his music are as intimate or visceral as Bill Barclay’s “Secret Byrd,” an immersive program extremely on trend for classical music right now. The show was devised with the elite vocal group The Gesualdo Six and viol consort Fretwork and received four {…}
The Gesualdo Six have announced the “London Sound Gallery,” a new festival curated by the ensemble that will celebrate the talents of the UK’s young artists. Among the artists that will be taking part in the series are Fieri Consort, Helen Charlston, Ensemble Augelletti, Matilda Lloyd, The Hermes Experiment, and The Gesualdo Six. The program will kick off with the {…}