News & Reviews
Classical Opera has been invited to perform several concerts at the highly-regarded Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, in September 2016. Following this, we are very pleased to confirm the details of a special Martin Randall tour organized in association with Classical Opera from 7-11 September 2016. The Martin Randall tour will include three performances by […]
Soprano Ailish Tynan shares her experience of recording our new CD: Mozart’s Il re pastore. What’s Il re pastore like? It’s a beautiful opera and it’s got it all. The beginning is really pastoral – there’s a fresh, simplistic joy in the music and in the relationship between Aminta and Elisa. You can almost feel […]
It seems scarcely credible, but this month Classical Opera celebrates its 18th birthday. Our launch concert took place at the Royal College of Music’s Britten Theatre on 8 September 1997, and the illustrious line-up of soloists that evening included Gerald Finley and Melvyn Tan. We have come a long way since then, of course, but […]
We talked to Adriano in Siria director Thomas Guthrie about the production, the music, and his love of Monty Python: What’s the music like? It’s beautiful. And challenging – dramatic and interesting, unexpected. What sort of production can we expect? Productions are collaborations, and there is a huge amount of love, time, creativity, personality, and […]
MOZART 250 is finally underway! This epic project launched at Wigmore Hall on 22 January with a tremendously well received musical portrait of the year 1765, and we are now looking forward to our ground-breaking ‘Mozart in London Festival Weekend’ at Milton Court, on 20-22 February. Mozart came to London with his mother, father and […]
