Alexandra Oomens News

For its first season under the leadership of new Chief Executive Tyler Stoops, The Grange Festival has announced the programme for summer 2025.

English National Opera will open its 2024/25 season with Puccini’s LA BOHÈME and SUOR ANGELICA. Learn more about the season and see how to purchase tickets.

The English National Opera's (ENO) spring season opens this February with the return of Calixto Bieito's fiery Carmen to the London Coliseum. Its third revival since it was first staged in 2012, this is one of the most popular operas ever written, featuring Bizet's instantly recognisable searing score. 

Since its inception in 2017, The Grange Festival has swiftly developed a reputation as a destination venue for outstanding singers, top-notch conductors, world-class productions and discerning audiences - and the 2023 season is set to raise its standing amongst the cognoscenti even higher.

This Autumn, the English National Opera (ENO) presents the first production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard in the company's history.

Tickets From £12 for English National Opera's GLORIANA at the London Coliseum

This November, Tony and Olivier Award-winning stage and screen actor and musician Richard McCabe makes his operatic debut in the English National Opera's (ENO) first production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard.

On Sunday 21 August, the English National Opera (ENO) will present a concert performance of Puccini's much-loved opera La bohème at Fairfield Halls in Croydon, South London. 

The English National Opera announces a one-off concert of Benjamin Britten's Gloriana this December.

Nevill Holt Opera Leicestershire's award-winning opera company, will perform for the first time in the breath-taking Lincoln Cathedral, with a concert version of Puccini's heartbreaking La bohème.  This special one-off performance will follow a run of La bohème at NHO's home on the beautiful Nevill Holt estate. 

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Australia - Sydney Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Not for the purists but beautiful to behold, this Pinafore updates the humour while respecting the music.

Australia's only Baroque opera company, the acclaimed Pinchgut Opera, announce their most ambitious program to date. The 2019 season will feature an expanded offering of two operas and two concerts, with performances in both Sydney and Melbourne, from a program of internationally celebrated artists. Pinchgut Opera rediscovers operatic masterpieces from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In 2019 the company will stage four seasons: in April, Pinchgut performs a concert of Bach's Easter Oratorio together with Telemann's Thunder Ode; in June, Monteverdi's final opera The Return of Ulysses; in August, the multi-award-winning counter-tenor Valder Sabadus will perform in Australia for the first time for one night only; and in December Pinchgut will stage Vivaldi's favourite opera, Farnace.

This week Pinchgut Opera will be in the City Recital Hall; the set by David Fleischer is impressively grand and the rich costumes designed and made by Christie Milton are superb. All is in place! The orchestra has arrived and they're now in the final run of rehearsals before Thursday's opening night.

We've just released some fantastic seats for our opening night on Thurs 3 Dec and also for Sat 5 Dec and wanted to let you know. You can book now at cityrecitalhall.com or 02 9256 2222.

Our final three introductions - Andrew Goodwin, David Greco and Alexandra Oomens. Three wonderful young Australians making their way in the world of singing and opera, each with their own story to tell; from Russian studies, to beautiful Bach, and the experience of singing with Gondwana Choirs.