Donizetti: Il Paria will perform at the Barbican
Opera Rara and Britten Sinfonia will collaborate for the first time to present a concert performance of Donizetti’s Il Paria. Conducted by Opera Rara’s artistic … Read more
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Daniel Kramer steps down from English National Opera
Daniel Kramer has announced that he will be stepping down as English National Opera’s (ENO) artistic director in order to focus on freelance directing. He will continue … Read more
25 year-old composer Dani Howard on the premiere of her first full-length work
The Opera Story will premiere 25-year-old composer Dani Howard’s first opera, Robin Hood, in Peckham on Wednesday 27 February. Performed over three floors in the … Read more
Opera singing competition to judge ‘by voice alone’
A new opera singing competition that makes use of blind auditions will have its first edition in 2019. By Voice Alone (BVA), which also has … Read more
Aldeburgh Festival announces 2019 artists-in-residence
The 72nd Aldeburgh Festival has announced composer Thomas Larcher, tenor Mark Padmore and soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan as its three artists-in-residence for 2019, with … Read more
World’s first video game opera loads up
PermaDeath, the world’s first video game opera, will make its debut next month. Running from 27-29 September, it is hosted by the Emerson Cutler Majestic … Read more
Pair share opera prize
The tenth European Opera-directing Prize ended in a tie for first place. Karolina Sofulak (Poland) and Gerald Jones (UK) shared the €20,000 prize. “Both teams … Read more
Glyndebourne Youth Opera’s sense of Belonging
Glyndebourne is to premiere a new opera composed by Lewis Murphy. Belongings, Murphy’s first full-length work, is the culmination of his time on the Young … Read more
Domingo aims for 4,000
Plácido Domingo hopes to reach a staggering 4,000 performances before he retires. The singer, who has switched from tenor to baritone as his career has … Read more
The British-Iranian composer caught up in Trump’s “Muslim Ban”
New opera ID, Please took on a shocking realism for its female British-Iranian composer at the height of Trump’s “Muslim Ban”. Here Soosan Lolavar writes … Read more