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Wigmore Hall Announces Over 500 Concerts For The New Season

Wigmore Hall's 2023/24 season was announced by John Gilhooly, the Hall's Director. With more than 500 concerts from September 2023 to July 2024 featuring some 2500 artists performing music from the past six centuries, it is the largest programme of classical music concerts in the UK. 

Black Friday: Save up to 40% on IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE at the London Coliseum

Tickets from just £25 for It's A Wonderful Life at the London Coliseum

The ENO Presents The UK Premiere & Operatic Adaptation of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

This November, opening the festive season at the London Coliseum, the English National Opera (ENO) presents the highly anticipated UK premiere of It's a Wonderful Life. Composed by Jake Heggie in 2016 with the libretto by Gene Scheer, this is an operatic adaptation of the 1946 Frank Capra Christmas classic film, sung in English.

Review: THE BLUE WOMAN, Royal Opera House

Composer Laura Bowler and Librettist Laura Lomas' new opera navigates the psychological landscape of sexual assault

The Royal Opera Announces Engender Festival 2022

The Royal Opera House today announces the 2022 programme for its annual Engender Festival. With 10 events, performances and workshops across the week, the festival brings together pioneering creatives and writers in both the opera world and the UK's wider creative industries.

BAC will also celebrate talented young people in Homegrown festival this spring, a platform for emerging artists to perform and present their own events. Further details on how to apply will be announced soon.

Michael Mayes Will Come to Theatre Of Sound With BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE

Baritone Michael Mayes returns to London in November to sing the title role in Bela Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle with new opera company Theatre of Sound. He shares the role with bass-baritone Gerald Finley in alternate performances, with sopranos Susan Bullock and Gweneth Ann Rand sharing the role of Judith.

A particular highlight, on 14 October, Wigmore Hall Associate Artist the British soprano Gweneth Ann Rand joins film star Adjoa Andoh for a special concert celebrating the artistry of African-American singers – Marian Anderson, Jessye Norman and Grace Bumbry.

Wigmore Hall To Re-open With 120th Anniversary Festival in May

Wigmore Hall will welcome the return of live audiences on 17 May with a 25-concert re-opening festival culminating in a major celebration of the Hall's 120th Anniversary on the 31 May.

Birmingham Opera Company to Present Wagner's RhineGold Summer 2021

Today Birmingham Opera Company has launched its next bold mission; Wagner's RhineGold with an international cast and local volunteer performers led by Artistic Director Graham Vick and newly appointed Music Director Alpesh Chauhan in August 2021.