Benjamin Britten News

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine presents Fantasias and Carols: A Cathedral Christmas on Saturday, December 14 at 7 p.m. at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), Manhattan. The Cathedral Choirs will join forces under the leadership of Kent Tritle, Director of Cathedral Music and one of America's leading choral conductors, and Bryan Zaros, Associate Choirmaster. This signature event is one of many comprising the 2019-2020 season of Great Music in a Great Space.

Australian musical theatre star Anthony Warlow will revisit one of his most acclaimed roles, Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden, in the 25th anniversary production which will open at Sydney Lyric Theatre in August next year. Tickets for this sumptuous musical in Sydney are on sale from Friday 29 November.

Escape into a Christmas fantasy land with uplifting festive music performed by Sydney Children's Choir in the heart of the city this December.

The LMU Choruses will ring in the holidays with sounds of the season on Thursday, Dec. 5, and Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, at their gala Christmas concerts. The performances will take place at 8 p.m. in the Sacred Heart Chapel on LMU's Westchester campus, 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, 90045.

Richard Alston Dance Company has announced the programme for its final ever performances at Sadler's Wells on 7 & 8 March, the climax of the Final Edition Tour. For Shine On, his last work for his company of 25 years, Alston, who was knighted for his services to dance earlier this year, has chosen the music of Benjamin Britten, the composer he has choreographed to more than any other.

Trinity Church Wall Street's historically informed performances of Handel's Messiah are critical favorites; just last season, the New York Times called Trinity's rendition 'the best 'Messiah' in New York.' On December 20 and 21 at 7:30pm and on December 22 at 3pm, the Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Director of Music Julian Wachner give three accounts of Handel's masterpiece. The performance on Saturday, December 21 at 7:30pm will be streamed live on Trinity's website and Facebook Live, and will be made available on demand the following week. Performances will take place at St. Paul's Chapel at Broadway and Fulton Street and tickets can be purchased here.

Enter into the true spirit of the season with a concert that will appeal to all ages. Join us for an afternoon of singing at the Guelph Chamber Choir's Christmas Lessons & Carols Concert, conducted by Charlene Pauls, on Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 3:00 pm at the beautiful St. George's Anglican Church in downtown Guelph.

CreArtBox collaborates with the Arte String Quartet to present a program based around Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. The concert will be held at the Renee Weiler Concert Hall in Greenwich House of Music, located at 46 Barrow St, New York, NY 10014, on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20TH, 2019, 7:30 PM

Bringing their bright smiles and warm spirits, The Phoenix Girls Chorus comes to Tempe to perform a heart-warming holiday concert, 'A Desert Carol' Saturday December 7 at 7:30 pm at The Church of the Epiphany, 2222 S. Price Road.

San Francisco Opera showcases the vocal might of the San Francisco Opera Chorus in concert on Friday, November 22, at 7:30 p.m.

Gianandrea Noseda continues his third season as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) by leading the Orchestra in its return to New York City conducting Act II of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for one performance only on November 17, 2019 as part of Lincoln Center's Great Performers series and White Light Festival. Noseda, who just last spring brought the NSO to Carnegie Hall for a critically acclaimed concert, will first perform Act II of Tristan und Isolde at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on November 13 and 15, 2019, before conducting the program in New York with the same soloists: tenor Stephen Gould and soprano Christine Goerke in the title roles.

On Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 2pm, the San Francisco-based Telegraph Quartet, winner of the 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, joins forces with composer Robert Sirota for a performance presented by the Live Arts Series at the Morris Museum (6 Normandy Heights Road) in Bickford Theatre. This concert is part of Sirota @ 70, a celebration throughout the 2019-2020 concert season featuring residencies, performances, and premieres in honor of the composer's 70th birthday.

The Los Angeles Children's Chorus (LACC), led by Artistic Director Fernando Malvar-Ruiz and  considered among the world's leading children's choirs, announces its 2019-2020 season.

Vaslav Nijinsky stands as one of the most celebrated, yet also controversial great male dancers of the 20th century. Bringing the spirit and life of Nijinsky to the Fugard stage this month, Godfrey Johnson chats with BroadwayWorld about the triple Fleur du Cap Theatre Award nominated production VASLAV.

The Annenberg Center presents Belgium-based early music ensemble Vox Luminis, Friday, November 1, at 7:30 PM, at St. Mary's Church, Hamilton Village at 3916 Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus. One of the foremost vocal ensembles specializing in performances of Renaissance and Baroque music, and led by Artistic Director Lionel Meunier, the award-winning Vox Luminis makes its Annenberg Center debut in a celebration of the Italian Baroque, featuring works by Claudio Monteverdi and Domenico Scarlatti, including the latter's Stabat Mater, the signature work that inspired the group's founding. Visit AnnenbergCenter.org for ticket information.

Today the world's oldest working music hall announces its glorious 2020 spring season, kicking off the year with a wonderful array of theatre and music that truly embodies Wilton's expansive and imaginative programming.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) launches its 2019-20 chamber season on Sunday, October 20, at 4:30 pm with Music for Oboe and Strings at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Wolfensohn Hall.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) launches its 2019-20 chamber season on Sunday, October 20, at 4:30 pm with Music for Oboe and Strings at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Wolfensohn Hall. The concert spotlights the artistry of four PSO musicians as they perform as a quartet: Lillian Copeland, oboe, Ruotao Mao, violin, Stephanie Griffin, viola, and Alistair MacRae, cello. On the program are Johann Joachim Quantz' Quartet No. 3 in G Major, W.A. Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F Major, Ludwig van Beethoven's String Trio in D Major, and Benjamin Britten's Phantasy Quartet.

One of the nation's most adventurous opera companies, Odyssey Opera, continues its Tudor-inspired season with the fully-staged production of Maria, Regina d'Inghilterra (1843) by Giovanni Pacini. Mary Tudor, Queen of England is an Italian opera in three acts, from a libretto by Leopoldo Tarantini, which is based on the play Marie Tudor by Victor Hugo. This largely overlooked yet remarkable work is an interesting example of mid-19th century opera. Gil Rose conducts the Bel Canto masterwork with Amy Shoremount-Obra as Queen Mary and rising star Alisa Jordheim as Clotilde Talbot. 

One of the nation's most adventurous opera companies, Odyssey Opera, continues its Tudor-inspired season with the fully-staged production of Maria, Regina d'Inghilterra (1843) by Giovanni Pacini. Mary Tudor, Queen of England is an Italian opera in three acts, from a libretto by Leopoldo Tarantini, which is based on the play Marie Tudor by Victor Hugo. This largely overlooked yet remarkable work is an interesting example of mid-19th century opera. Gil Rose conducts the Bel Canto masterwork with Amy Shoremount-Obra as Queen Mary and rising star Alisa Jordheim as Clotilde Talbot.