Opera America announces Cuban composer Odaline de la Martinez as one of the winners of their opera grant for female composers
Opera America – the US national service organization for Opera - awarded Odaline de la Martinez a Discovery Grant for Imoinda - Part I of her Slavery Opera Trilogy.Martinez is one of seven winners of the 2015 Female Composers Discovery Grant - which is funded by The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation - totalling $100,000 to be divided equally between the seven winners.
Read morePianist Cordelia Williams commissions Michael Symmons Roberts to reinterpret the nativity story through a Messiaen masterpiece with Lord Rowan Williams and artist Sophie Hacker
Young pianist Cordelia Williams presents Messiaen 2015: Between Heaven and the Clouds, a year-long series of events setting Olivier Messiaen’s wartime masterpiece Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (Twenty Contemplations of the Infant Jesus) alongside words and art.
Read moreItalian soprano Carmen Giannattasio returns to Covent Garden as Nedda in the Royal Opera House’s new production of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio returns to the Royal Opera House to make her role debut as Nedda in Damiano Michieletto's new production of Leoncavallo’s iconic opera Pagliacci opening on 3 December 2015 conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano.
Read morePianist Benjamin Grosvenor makes his recital debut at the Barbican Centre on 23 January 2015 alongside recitals in Birmingham, Oxford and Tunbridge Wells
Outstanding British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor makes his much-anticipated recital debut at the Barbican Centre on 23 January with a recital programme of works by Rameau, Bach, Franck and Chopin.
Read morePianist Benjamin Grosvenor embarks on American recital tour
Outstanding 22-year-old British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor embarks on a 7-concert tour of the US and Canada in February and March with recitals in major cities including New York, Boston, Minneapolis and Vancouver. Grosvenor’s recital programme includes works by Rameau, Bach, Franck, Chopin and Granados.
Read moreSir Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia embark on a tour to Prague, Dresden and Vienna 28 May to 1 June 2015
Making their debut at the Prague Spring Festival, Pappano and his award- winning Roman orchestra mark the 150th anniversary of Sibelius [1865-2015] with a programme of the composer’s Symphony No.2 alongside Verdi, Rachmaninov and the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations with young Czech cellist Jan Vogler.
Read moreSir Antonio Pappano and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia’s new President Michele dall’Ongaro announce the orchestra’s 2015-16 season in Rome, opening with new work by Luca Francesconi inspired by Nelson Mandela
Sir Antonio Pappano, whose role as Music Director of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia has been extended to 2019 in an unanimous vote by the orchestra following 10 critically-acclaimed years at the helm, will open Rome’s 2015-2016 Symphonic Season at the Auditorium Parco della Musica with a Beethoven Cycle starting on 3 October which will include the world premiere of Luca Francesconi’s Bread, Water and Salt.
Read moreSir Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia embark on a tour to Prague, Dresden and Vienna 28 May to 1 June 2015
Making their debut at the Prague Spring Festival, Pappano and his award-winning Roman orchestra mark the 150th anniversary of Sibelius [1865-2015] with a programme of the composer’s Symphony No.2 alongside Verdi, Rachmaninov and the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations with young Czech cellist Jan Vogler
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