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✨ Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have announced their 2024/25 season🇫🇷 🇺🇸 Including performances in Toulouse...
20/06/2024

✨ Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques have announced their 2024/25 season

🇫🇷 🇺🇸 Including performances in Toulouse, Bayreuth and a tour of North America

👀 Read more online…

The final of operas is ‘Time and Tide’ by Will Gardner and Sara Clifford 🚤 🌊 Explore our Q&A with Will and Sara online!...
18/06/2024

The final of operas is ‘Time and Tide’ by Will Gardner and Sara Clifford 🚤

🌊 Explore our Q&A with Will and Sara online!

🥘 The second of three operas! In collaboration with we introduce the new operas premiered on Thursday at Milton Court T...
18/06/2024

🥘 The second of three operas! In collaboration with we introduce the new operas premiered on Thursday at Milton Court Theatre

👀 Read more on our website about The Casserole

The first of three new operas for 🌷Explore the inspiration behind ‘Ursa Minor’ on the Opera Now website!
18/06/2024

The first of three new operas for 🌷

Explore the inspiration behind ‘Ursa Minor’ on the Opera Now website!

✨National Opera Studio announces 2024/25 Young Artists cohort 🎶 The 16 hand-picked musicians will undertake a nine-month...
18/06/2024

✨National Opera Studio announces 2024/25 Young Artists cohort
 
🎶 The 16 hand-picked musicians will undertake a nine-month, fully funded bespoke training programme to prepare them for life as an opera performer
 
Find out more about the musicians online…
 

🌙 Friday wisdom from who writes for us about the importance of the opera being made in conservatoires 👀 Read on our web...
14/06/2024

🌙 Friday wisdom from who writes for us about the importance of the opera being made in conservatoires

👀 Read on our website now!

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🌞Announcing our collaboration with – following the four composers on its opera writing residency🏳️‍🌈 The first blog, lo...
12/06/2024

🌞Announcing our collaboration with – following the four composers on its opera writing residency

🏳️‍🌈 The first blog, looking at the story of Derek Jarman and his inspiration on the composers, is out now on the Opera Now website

‘It’s a familiar dream to up sticks and move to a secluded hut in the mountains … though the ensuing reality can be far ...
10/06/2024

‘It’s a familiar dream to up sticks and move to a secluded hut in the mountains … though the ensuing reality can be far from the idyllic vision created by Instagram and Pinterest’

✍️ Our review of Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert from the opening night of Aldeburgh Festival is online now 👀



✨ ‘I believe there is no shortage of goodwill within the world of opera’🎶 We sat down with composer Des Oliver as he spo...
07/06/2024

✨ ‘I believe there is no shortage of goodwill within the world of opera’

🎶 We sat down with composer Des Oliver as he spoke to us about his opera ‘Windrush, The Journey’ which is currently touring with Pegasus Opera Company.

👀 Read the full interview online…

‘It’s so easy to be inspired by one another in opera’ 🎭 💍 speaks to Theo Elwell about and the work he’s doing to suppo...
06/06/2024

‘It’s so easy to be inspired by one another in opera’ 🎭

💍 speaks to Theo Elwell about and the work he’s doing to support preparation for The Ring Cycle, beginning later this month

🗣️ They chat about Sever’s early musical life, ethics in Wagner, antisemitism and the immortal power of The Ring Cycle

👀 Read online now!

‘Can we just dream big and see what’s possible?’ speaks to .butterworth about her Messiaen concerts at . They chat about...
06/06/2024

‘Can we just dream big and see what’s possible?’

speaks to .butterworth about her Messiaen concerts at . They chat about burnout, art, vulnerability, supporting young artists and the beauty of Messiaen

👀 Read online now!

‘An amazing sight...’✍️ Robert Thicknesse reviews Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ at the Barbican.👀 Read more online... ...
05/06/2024

‘An amazing sight...’

✍️ Robert Thicknesse reviews Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ at the Barbican.

👀 Read more online...

✨ English Touring Opera has announced its relocation to Sheffield! 🎶 The strategic move will place them in close proximi...
30/05/2024

✨ English Touring Opera has announced its relocation to Sheffield!

🎶 The strategic move will place them in close proximity to other leading opera companies outside of the nation’s capital.

Read more online…

🎶 Bulgarian Soprano, Sonya Yoncheva has announced her charity initiative🎹 Students from the singer’s former music school...
30/05/2024

🎶 Bulgarian Soprano, Sonya Yoncheva has announced her charity initiative

🎹 Students from the singer’s former music school will be entitled to free tickets to Plovdiv Opera performances

Read more on our website…

‘The deserve a central role in this review, pulling out all the stops for surely one of the tightest and most vibrant r...
20/05/2024

‘The deserve a central role in this review, pulling out all the stops for surely one of the tightest and most vibrant readings of Carmen heard in a good while’

👀 Read the full review online now!

‘Bryan Register’s consequential mental disintegration in Act III is poetically and beautifully sung’✍️ Andrew Mellor rev...
20/05/2024

‘Bryan Register’s consequential mental disintegration in Act III is poetically and beautifully sung’

✍️ Andrew Mellor reviews Wagner’s ‘Tristan et Isolde’ at Royal Danish Opera.

Read more online 👀

New season announced at ✨Read the full details on our website 👀
16/05/2024

New season announced at ✨

Read the full details on our website 👀

‘Five Michelin stars for Joachim Klein’s lighting’✍️ Mark Pullinger reviews Puccini’s ‘Il Trittico’ at Dutch National Op...
07/05/2024

‘Five Michelin stars for Joachim Klein’s lighting’

✍️ Mark Pullinger reviews Puccini’s ‘Il Trittico’ at Dutch National Opera.

Read more online 👀

“Their subsequent duets were beautifully handled, with sensitive direction from conductor Lorenzo Passerini”✍️ Stephen P...
01/05/2024

“Their subsequent duets were beautifully handled, with sensitive direction from conductor Lorenzo Passerini”

✍️ Stephen Pritchard reviews Bellini’s ‘Norma’ at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples

Read online now 👀

wins the 2024 Kathleen Ferrier Competition 🏆 Soprano Madeline Boreham received the second prize, with Charlotte Jane Ke...
01/05/2024

wins the 2024 Kathleen Ferrier Competition 🏆

Soprano Madeline Boreham received the second prize, with Charlotte Jane Kennedy, also a soprano receiving the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize. Pianist Frioze Madon was awarded the Help Musicians Accompanist Prize.

The Royal Opera House has announced a rebrand. With a new name and logo, the institution has an exciting 2024/25 program...
30/04/2024

The Royal Opera House has announced a rebrand. With a new name and logo, the institution has an exciting 2024/25 programme ahead.

Have you ever visited the Royal Opera House? Tell us about your favourite production in the comments below 👇

👀 Find out more on our website…

🏆 Congratulations to Will Frost on winning the International Handel Singing Competition! 🏆 ✨ Frost competed in the highl...
29/04/2024

🏆 Congratulations to Will Frost on winning the International Handel Singing Competition! 🏆

✨ Frost competed in the highly anticipated final alongside Isabelle Haile, Charlotte Bowden, Hannah Priest and Angharad Rowlands ✨

👀 Read more on our website…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️‘Gunther was the most stylish singer’ ✍️ Robert Thicknesse reviews Wagner’s ‘Götterdämmerung’ at Read online no...
29/04/2024

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‘Gunther was the most stylish singer’

✍️ Robert Thicknesse reviews Wagner’s ‘Götterdämmerung’ at

Read online now 👀

Welsh National Opera has announced that it will be withdrawing two performances from its 2024-25 season due to increasin...
16/04/2024

Welsh National Opera has announced that it will be withdrawing two performances from its 2024-25 season due to increasing financial difficulties.

✍️ Read the full story on our website - link in bio ✍️

👏Congratulations Antonio Pappano for receiving the award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera at Olivier Awards last nig...
15/04/2024

👏Congratulations Antonio Pappano for receiving the award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera at Olivier Awards last night!

We look back on 10 key moments at Royal Opera House👇

As Sir Antonio Pappano steps down as music director of the Royal Opera House, Francis Muzzu takes a look back at a representative selection of his many great achievements with the company over the last 22 years

‘Why on earth am I being made to watch yet another operatic story told within grey concrete walls and under arid strip l...
12/04/2024

‘Why on earth am I being made to watch yet another operatic story told within grey concrete walls and under arid strip lighting?’

talks concrete in our Summer issue 🌞 Read online now! 👀

📖 There aren’t many places where the story of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony could amass over 100,000 views in just 2 weeks. O...
11/04/2024

📖 There aren’t many places where the story of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony could amass over 100,000 views in just 2 weeks. Or the story of Wagner’s Ring Cycle told in 12 minutes 💍

😎 In step who has changed the game when it comes to sharing the stories of composers, operas and classical music

✍️ Founder shares his journey to creating the ever-growing YouTube channel

‘I want to allow women to seen themselves on an opera stage in an honest and dignified way’✍️ Composer writes about the...
11/04/2024

‘I want to allow women to seen themselves on an opera stage in an honest and dignified way’

✍️ Composer writes about the journey to creating her opera Screenshot, which premiers next week

👀 Read online now!

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Fresh from their sold-out Royal Opera House recital, Anush Hovhannisyan and Sam Jewison celebrate legendary composers of the Golden Age of Hollywood, from opera and operetta to classic musical theatre. Expect timeless duets from “The New Moon” (Sigmund Romberg) and “Bitter Sweet” (Noël Coward), hailing the vocal partnership of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Celebrate the genius of Leonard Bernstein through music from “West Side Story” and “On the Town”, as well as George Gershwin’s seminal work, “An American in Paris”. Add to that the neo-romantic splendour of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the father of film music, with selections from “Die tote Stadt” and “Kings Row”. Wrap it up with salutes to iconic performers, including Kathryn Grayson and Fred Astaire, with songs from “Kiss Me, Kate” (Cole Porter) and “Swing Time” (Jerome Kern), and you have the complete tapestry of composers in Hollywood. Soprano Anush Hovhannisyan’s recent appearances include Violetta (La traviata / Royal Opera House) and Tatyana (Eugene Onegin / Opera Holland Park), for which it was noted that “everything [she] does is an event…she combines a charismatic presence with an almost indecently refulgent tone.” Singer and pianist Sam Jewison headlined the 2021 BBC Radio 3 Christmas Special and the 2020 ReGeneration Festival in Florence, where he was described as “a Renaissance Man in a Jazz World”. He launched his new touring show, “The Great American Songbook”, from the award-winning Nevill Holt Opera House in June 2022. Get tickets here: bit.ly/3BIc54E #ad

Aria Final performances from Montreal Competition Voice 2022
Aria Final performances from Montreal Competition Voice 2022

Watch full performances from the Aria Final of the Montreal Competition Voice 2022. Programme Valerie Eickhoff, mezzo-soprano MOZART Deh, per questo istante solo (The Clemency of Titus) OFFENBACH Vois sous l’archet frémissant (The Tales of Hoffmann) ROSSINI Una voce poco fa (The Barber of Seville) Nils Wanderer, countertenor ELGAR Sea Slumber Song (Sea Pictures, Op. 37) MOZART Venga pur minacci e frema (Mithridates, King of Pontus) HÄNDEL Pena tiranna (Amadis of Gaul) Simone McIntosh, mezzo-soprano STRAUSS Sein wir wieder gut (Ariadne on Naxos) HANDEL Vani solo i lamenti … Svegliatevi nel core (Julius Caesar) ROSSINI Naqui’all affanno … Non più mesta (Cinderella) Sarah Dufresne, soprano MOZART Ach, ich fühl’s (The Magic Flute) VERDI Caro nome (Rigoletto) GOUNOD Ah! Je veux vivre (Romeo and Juliet) Hugo Laporte, baritone VERDI Alzati … Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima (A Masked Ball) TCHAIKOSVKY Vy tak pechalny … Ya vas lyublyu (The Queen of Spades) ROSSINI Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville) CMIMontreal

Watch A Dream of Armageddon from New National Theatre Tokyo, available to stream for free online until 28 February https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/productions/opera/streaming/armageddon-stream22.html #sponsored

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Celebrate #WorldOperaDay with Opera Now!

Celebrate #WorldOperaDay with Opera Now, the opera lovers' essential guide – now published monthly! Subscribe today to receive a free copy of 'The Greatest Tenors', our special Collectors' Edition, with any annual subscription. Enter code OPN21 https://bit.ly/3vG0Qqf

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Bethany Horak-Hallett performs 'Dido’s Lament' at the Live From London festival
Bethany Horak-Hallett performs 'Dido’s Lament' at the Live From London festival

VOCES8 at the #LiveFromLondon festival
VOCES8 at the #LiveFromLondon festival

Voces8 perform Orlando di Lasso's 'Dessus Le Marché d'Arras' at the #LiveFromLondon festival. ➡️ Book tickets for the 10-concert series, available to watch online until October 31, at magsubscriptions.com/live-from-london

CHAPTER 5 The Adventure Continues, Venera Gimadieva for Opera Now
CHAPTER 5 The Adventure Continues, Venera Gimadieva for Opera Now

The final chapter: Soprano Venera Gimadieva discusses future plans and what she's looking forward to. Artist Digital in collaboration with Opera Now. Read the full interview in our February issue: https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/rhinegold-publishing/magazines/opera-now/current-issue/?fbclid=IwAR3iGSSwb-UDToebPbxQXkvhqhPwmhPr3YWzM2Wy-2TQ0Lsnx7vLF4p5Sfk

CHAPTER 4 A Woman in the Land of Bel Canto
CHAPTER 4 A Woman in the Land of Bel Canto

Video four of five: Soprano Venera Gimadieva finds herself in the enchanted world and makes herself at home. Artist Digital in collaboration with Opera Now. Read the full interview in our February issue: https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/rhinegold-publishing/magazines/opera-now/current-issue/?fbclid=IwAR3iGSSwb-UDToebPbxQXkvhqhPwmhPr3YWzM2Wy-2TQ0Lsnx7vLF4p5Sfk

CHAPTER 2 The Birth of a Voice, Venera Gimadieva for Opera Now
CHAPTER 2 The Birth of a Voice, Venera Gimadieva for Opera Now

The birth of a voice: Soprano Venera Gimadieva talks to Opera Now editor Ashutosh Khandekar about learning to become both a singer and an actress on stage in our second video in collaboration with Artist Digital. Read the full interview in our February issue: https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/rhinegold-publishing/magazines/opera-now/current-issue/

CHAPTER 1 The Roots, Venera Gimadieva for Opera Now
CHAPTER 1 The Roots, Venera Gimadieva for Opera Now

In our February issue Soprano Venera Gimadieva, a rising star of bel canto, discusses her well-plotted journey from exotic Tatarstan to the great stages of the opera world! In the first of our series of videos in collaboration with Artist Digital, she talks to editor Ash Khandekar about her first encounters with opera. Read more in our February edition - out today! https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/rhinegold-publishing/magazines/opera-now/current-issue/

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