(Credit: Ben Ealovega) The National Center for Early Music has announced a program of online concerts called “Awaken.” The series will showcase some of the best musical artists in the UK and from the city of York. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on vocal performances. The festivities begin on March 27 with a musical tour {…}
Chiltern Arts presents excerpts from Benjamin Britten’s “Saint Nicolas” cantata via a free-to-view 20-minute video celebrating the story of Santa Claus. Director Bill Barclay has created a powerful, spiritually uplifting film that anticipates the time when we will once more come together to celebrate musicmaking. The film features Royal Opera House tenor Nick Pritchard and British choral and orchestra conductor, {…}
UK-based Christmas at Cadogan is set to return in 2020 with a number of unique socially-distanced and virtual events. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on opera and choral events. Please note that not all performances are live or streamed (we will state “Streaming Date” under performances that can be viewed virtually and “Performance Date” for those {…}
The VOCES8 Foundation will present “Live from London” starting on August 1, 2020. The online festival will feature concert performances every Saturday for 10 weeks with some of the greatest vocal ensembles in the world. The performances will be broadcast on the VOCES8 Foundation’s official website. VOCES8 will kick it all off on August 1, 2020 followed by a concert {…}
(Credit: Ray Burmiston / Kamil Szkopik) Gramophone Classical Music Awards will host an online charity gala to support musicians who have struggled with the cancelations brought about by the COVID-19 crisis. The event, which is set for May 10, 2020 at 7 p.m. BST will star Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Ian & Oliver Bostridge, Bertrand Chamayou, Colin Currie, Lise Davidsen, Sabine Devieilhe, {…}
I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth are set to work alongside director Thomas Guthrie and designer Ruth Paton to showcase Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” at the York Early Music Festival on July 5, 2019 with an additional showcase at LSO St. Luke’s in London on July 7. The production is set to utilize ancient Greek techniques of masks and puppets to tell the {…}