Diary
2020
March 22 Lucretia | THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA | New Palace Opera | St. John’s Waterloo, London |19:00 | Conductor – Michael Thorne POSTPONED
April 10-11 MacMillan | STABAT MATER | Conductor – Sir James MacMillan | St. Endellion Easter Festival CANCELLED
April 12 Haydn | NELSON MASS | Conductor – David Watkin | St. Endellion Easter Festival CANCELLED
April 25 Blackford | PIETA | Mozart | REQUIEM | St. Alban’s Cathedral | Conductor – George Vass POSTPONED
April 29 – June 12 | In rehearsal for 3. Lesni Zinky/ Nymph | RUSALKA |Garsington Opera
June 14,18,26, July 1,4,8,10,16,18 | 3. Lesni Zinky / Nymph | RUSALKA |Garsington Opera | Conductor – Douglas Boyd | Director – Michael Boyd UNDER REVIEW
June 20 Mahler | SYMPHONY No. 8 | Mulier Samaritana | Conductor – Richard Howarth | Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, Liverpool Welsh Choral, Chester and Manchester Cathedral Choristers | Bridgewater Hall, Manchester CANCELLED
July 7 | JAM Festival Recital | Repertoire to include Elgar, Britten & Jonathan Dove | Anna Tilbrook – piano
August 9,11,12 3. Lesni Zinky / Nymph | RUSALKA |Garsington Opera at The Edinburgh International Festival | Conductor – Douglas Boyd | Director – Michael Boyd CANCELLED
August 27 | Weir | KING HARALD’S SAGA | Janáček | THE DIARY OF ONE WHO VANISHED (trans. by Seamus Heaney) | Presteigne Festival | St. Andrew’s Church, Presteigne
Archive 2019
February 6th Presteigne Festival London Fundraiser at The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust,
22 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NR at 19:30
An Evening of Schubert including – Four Impromptus, D899
A selection of Lieder, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, mezzo-soprano Timothy End, piano
“The Trout Quintet”, D667 featuring Tim Horton, piano Benjamin Nabarro, violin Gemma Rosefield, cello and Rachel Roberts, viola and tbc, double bass.
Drinks and canapés after: £45, payable to The Presteigne Festival **SOLD OUT**
February 11th – May 10th Sara (cover) | ROBERTO DEVEREUX | Welsh National Opera
Conductor – Carlo Rizzi / James Southall | Director – Alessandro Talevi
February 17th The Colours of Mozart including the Clarinet Concerto & REQUIEM with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Conductor – Adrian Partington at Royal & Derngate Northampton
February 23rd Elgar | SEA PICTURES for Wrexham Symphony Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary year, William Aston Hall, Wrexham together with Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony & Beethoven Egmont Overture | Conductor – Leon Bosch.
March 16th Elgar | DREAM OF GERONTIUS | Colchester Choral Society, St Botolph’s Colchester| Conductor – Ian Ray
March 23rd Bach | ST. JOHN PASSION | St. Alban’s Cathedral | Conductor – George Vass
April 6th Bach | ST.JOHN PASSION | St. George’s Hall |Bristol Bach Choir | Conductor – Christopher Finch
April 13th Bach | ST. JOHN PASSION | Shrewsbury Abbey for Shropshire Charity Concerts | Conductor – John Moore
April 15-18th St. Endellion Festival, Cornwall
A major highlight of the 2019 Festival will be a specially commissioned St Mark’s Passion by Oliver Tarney, long standing member of the Easter Festival with a fast developing reputation as a composer. This new work will be performed on Good Friday along with Bach’s Cantata No. 4 and Haydn’s 26th Symphony.
April 22nd – 4th June in rehearsal for Wellgunde | DAS RHEINGOLD
April 25th Manuel de Falla | THE THREE CORNERED HAT | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Cadogan Hall as part of Seeking New Horizons: Political Protest III | Alexander Shelley – conductor
June 6 / 8 / 11 / 13th Wellgunde | DAS RHEINGOLD | Longborough Festival Opera | Anthony Negus – conductor | Amy Lane – director
July 20th / 21st Orlofsky | DIE FLEDERMAUS | West Green House Opera | Jonathan Lyness – conductor | director – Richard Studer
July 24th Suzuki | MADAM BUTTERFLOP| Tete a Tete Festival | Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross| Bill Bankes-Jones – Director | Tim Burke – Musical Director
July 31st Mendelssohn | ISRAEL IN EGYPT | British premiere of this work after Handel at Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral
September 18,20,21,24,25,27,28
October 1,2,4,5 Rosina | THE BARBER OF SEVILLE | The Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol | Jonathan Lyness – conductor | Richard Studer – director
September 26th Elgar | SEA PICTURES | North Wales International Music Festival | St. Asaph Cathedral| Robert Guy – conductor | NEW Sinfonia
November 2nd Mahler | LIEDER EINES FAHRENDEN GESELLEN | Jonathan Lyness – conductor
December 4,5,6 Bach WEIHNACHTSORATORIUM | The Norwegian Wind Ensemble | Sarpsborg, Halden & Moss, Norway