Summer festivals and extra concerts in addition to those in the 2021/22 brochure - we will add performances here as we hear about them!
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Longborough Festival Opera
2022 Festival: Wagner Siegfried 30 May, 1, 3, 5, 7 June Conductor: Anthony Negus Director: Amy Lane Following an acclaimed Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, Longborough’s Ring continues with Wagner’s remarkably funny and exuberant third instalment of the epic cycle. Korngold Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) 21, 23, 25, 27 June Conductor: Justin Brown Director: Carmen Jakobi A dramatised concert production of Korngold’s rarely performed youthful drama of desire – seductive, charming and full of beautiful melody. Bizet Carmen 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19 July 2022 Conductor: Jeremy Silver Director: Mathilde Lopez A radical take on Bizet’s tale of freedom, passion and high drama, featuring the Longborough Youth Chorus. Emerging Artist double bill: Freya Waley-Cohen Spell Book Francesca Caccini La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (The Liberation of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina) 28, 30, 31 July, 2 August 2022 Conductor: Yshani Perinpanayagam Director: Jenny Ogilvie Members of Longborough’s Emerging Artist programme offer the first complete staging of the dramatic song cycle Spell Book; followed by The Liberation of Ruggiero, the earliest surviving opera written by a female composer. Tickets: lfo.org.uk Box Office 01451 830292 Booking opens 14 March 2022. Book ahead with membership – join from £80. Longborough Festival Opera, near Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0QF lfo.org.uk |
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Thursday 26 May 7.30 pm Coull String Quartet United Reformed Church, Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LU Haydn String Quartet in F, Op 50 No 5 (‘Dream’) Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op 10 Dvořák String Quartet in F, Op 96 (‘American’) Tickets £20 from 01608 662597, www.stratfordchambermusic.co.uk or on the door Whittington Music Festival
19 - 22 May Whittington Music Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary in May with seven concerts over four days, from Thursday 19th to Sunday 22nd 2022. Acclaimed tenor Mark Padmore will perform in three concerts, singing three songs by Rebecca Clarke at 6pm on Thursday 19th, Schubert’s Schwanengesang at 7:30 on Friday 20th and Vaughan Williams’ ‘On Wenlock Edge’ at 3:30pm on Sunday 22nd, as part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Mark Padmore will be accompanied by Artistic Director Sophia Rahman and other festival musicians. Whittington is an historic village in the scenic and tranquil Welsh Marches, situated in NW Shropshire about 35 miles from Wenlock Edge. Its Georgian church (SY11 4DF) has an excellent acoustic and uninterrupted sight lines making it an ideal venue for world-class music. The ‘Transcending Borders’ festival will also showcase 15 international artists playing chamber music by, among others, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel and Chausson, a family concert, a new work by composer Jeremy Sams, and jazz from Zoe Rahman (piano) and Idris Rahman (clarinet). For full details of the artists and programme go to www.whittingtonmusicfestival.org.uk |
Header photo: Nicholas Daniel - director of the Leicester International Music Festival