Henry Purcell News

With vim, vigor and renewed vitality, Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW) announces its 2022 Summer Festival. Beginning June 25 with a gala event at Portland Art Museum and running through July 31, the 52nd annual festival will feature five weeks of programming across the Portland metro area with more than 60 concerts and community events. Themed Inspirations & Influences, this dynamic festival boasts music from around the world with an array of world-renowned musicians to match.

Sitting onstage just feet from world-class performers is an exhilarating experience, even more with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, an exciting ensemble that plays with what the Boston Globe calls “irresistible exuberance” and a sense of joy.

Tafelmusik has unveiled further details about a special live tribute concert honouring Music Director Emerita Jeanne Lamon, C.M. O.Ont., who passed away in June 2021.

On Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 7:00pm, the London Handel Festival presents their 2022 Opening Night Celebration, featuring the world premiere of London-born composer Anna Clyne's In thy Beauty.

Gotham Early Music Scene continues the inaugural season of its Open Gates Project with C3: Countertenors, a Consort, and Continuo, a program featuring a roster of countertenors of color alongside a consort of viols, on Friday, February 11, 2022 at 7:00pm at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (3 W 65th Street). The concert will also be livestreamed. 

Gotham Early Music Scene continues the inaugural season of its Open Gates Project with C3: Countertenors, a Consort, and Continuo, a program featuring a roster of countertenors of color alongside a consort of viols, on Friday, February 11, 2022 at 7:00pm at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (3 W 65th Street). The concert will also be livestreamed.

Opera Atelier has announced its greatly anticipated return to live performance with All Is Love - a fully-staged production celebrating love in all its splendor at Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning - on stage Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 8pm and Sunday, February 20, 2022 at 2:30pm, in strict compliance with provincial health orders.

Benjamin Britten’s unconditional masterpiece addressed to young spectators is returning to the Chamber Stage Boris Pokrovsky Theatre on Nikolskaya Street - the children's play “The Little Sweep”.

The Hopkins Center for the Arts (the Hop) today announced an updated lineup of winter and spring arts experiences, from music concerts by Brentano String Quartet, Anaïs Mitchell and Amir ElSaffar; an immersive audio-visual installation by Ash Fure and Adam Fure and theatrical works by SITI Company, Roger Guenveur Smith and george emilio sanchez.

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BroadwayWorld talks to director Elkhanah Pulitzer about her new production of Henry Purcell's Baroque masterpiece 'Dido and Aneas' which marks Opera San Jose's return to live performances November 13th to 28th.

Opera San José will make its much-anticipated return to the historic California Theatre with a new production of Purcell's baroque masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas.

 Tafelmusik will launche its 2021/22 season with Music & Magic, a mesmerizing digital show that blends two captivating art forms to create a world of illusion and enchantment.

Music Academy of the West presents 'Mirrorflores.' Produced by Vocal Institute Creative Director James Darrah, starring Academy 2021 Vocal Institute fellows.

The Southbank Centre is reopening the Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in September after 18 months with a major new artistic strand, Purcell Sessions, as the venue gets set to transform into London's number one destination for contemporary culture.

Dr. Peter Simon, Michael and Sonja Koerner President & CEO of The Royal Conservatory of Music, Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts, and James Anagnoson, Dean of The Glenn Gould School, today revealed details of the diverse concerts that will make up the 13th concert season at The Royal Conservatory of Music.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra under the direction of Music Director Christopher Wilkins celebrates its 20th anniversary season with the return of live orchestral music to the iconic DCR Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade this summer-the first live and free professional symphony concerts in Boston since the pandemic began.

The American Classical Orchestra has announced its 2021-22 season of all-live performances, beginning with a full orchestra Reunion program of Baroque music in Damrosch Park on September 22.

The Naumburg Orchestral Concerts continues its 116th Season at the newly renovated Bandshell. All concerts will take place at 7:30 PM at the Naumburg Bandshell.

As part of its commitment to contributing to community life in a meaningful way, Tafelmusik is pleased to partner with Canadian Stage to present Baroque and Beyond outdoor chamber music concerts July 8, 9, and 10, 2021.