Gregory Dahl from Scarpia to Rigoletto
Thank heaven for seniority. As a 28-year-old teacher of choral music in Winnipeg, Gregory Dahl did...
Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers’ Competition 2017
The previous winners were mezzo-soprano Anna Starushkevych (2013) and soprano Galina Averina...
13 opera myths, busted
"Opera singers come in all shapes, sizes and ages," says soprano Simone Osborne. "We wear jeans,...
Peter Kellner announced as winner of 2018 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Voice Fellowship
The following evening, on Friday 6 October, IO presented its inaugural Voice Scholars’ recital,...
Back to Baroque and to the battle lines with English Touring Opera
Romeo and Juliet, Rinaldo and Armida, Ramadès and Aida: love thwarted by warring countries and...
A murdered composer, a lost libretto…could this be Canada’s greatest opera?
Against the Grain Theatre is making the case that Claude Vivier's 'Kopernikus' is a masterwork....
Noa Wildschut, Mozart: Violin Concerto, Sonata (Warner)
Noa Wildschut, Mozart Yoram Ish-Hurwitz, Gordan Nikolić, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra Warner I’m...
Opéra de Montréal’s Another Brick in the Wall heads to Cincinnati Opera
Cincinnati Opera’s U.S. premiere production of Another Brick in the Wall has begun presales of...
The Life to Come: a new opera by Louis Mander and Stephen Fry
It began ‘with a purely obscene fancy of a Missionary in difficulties’. So E.M. Forster wrote to...
‘Never was such advertisement for a film!’: Thomas Kemp and the OAE present a film of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier at the Oxford Lieder Festival
The film was half the length of the opera but included some additional scenes such as a huge...
