Live broadcast of Vespers from the London Oratory.

Celebrated classical and film composer Joe Hisaishi makes his Proms debut conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in two large-scale works exploring themes of destruction and loss. The cinematic soundscapes of Hisaishi’s own The End of the World are set against the restless electric pulse and shimmer of Steve Reich’s The Desert Music – a scorched-earth vision of a post-nuclear wasteland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/emzqwh

Join us for a joyful celebration as the Music for Everyone Summer School marks its tenth anniversary!  The concert beings in the beautiful acoustics of the chapel, where the choir will perform a delightful mix of music – from the jazz-infused charm of John Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals, to the infectious energy of Pharrell Williams’ Happy.  The choir will be joined by acclaimed vocal ensemble Sonoro for a special performance of Donizetti’s Per te d’immenso.

https://www.music-for-everyone.org/event/summer-school-2025-showcase-concert/

Join us on Thursday 31st July for a magical early evening of live opera and sparkling wine, set against the stunning backdrop of the Surrey Hills.

Vineyard regulars Frances Gregory (mezzo-soprano) and Emily Wenman (soprano) return, alongside James Geidt (baritone) and Marija Struckova (pianist), for a night at the opera. Featuring classics from The Magic Flute to La Boheme, set against the stunning backdrop of Albury's vines, this promises to be a sublime evening of musical magic. Guests are invited to sit among the vines, sip on a glass of award-winning Albury bubbly, and enjoy the beauty of the vineyard in full summer.

A collaboration between husband and wife based on Alba Arikha's memoir Major/Minor.

BLUE ELECTRIC, based on Alba Arikha’s acclaimed memoir Major/Minor, is a collaboration between husband and wife, an opera of juxtapositions: contemporary orchestral music and bursts of pop, adolescent preoccupations and concentration camps. It is about a father and daughter and the effect – years later - of the Holocaust on their relationship, a subject which has rarely been addressed in operatic form. Music by Tom Smail, libretto by Alba Arikha, directed by Orpha Phelan. Conductor : Gabriella Teychenné.

Maya: Mimi Doulton
Leon: Jonathan Brown
Sarah: Helen Charlston
Bella: Camilla Seale
Sam: Christopher Bowen
Barbara: Emily Wenman

CONDUCTOR: Gabriella Teychenné.

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER: Eloise Philpot.

LIGHTING: Petr Vocka.

CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Madeleine Boyd

https://theplaygroundtheatre.london/events/blue-electric-an-opera/

A collaboration between husband and wife based on Alba Arikha's memoir Major/Minor.

BLUE ELECTRIC, based on Alba Arikha’s acclaimed memoir Major/Minor, is a collaboration between husband and wife, an opera of juxtapositions: contemporary orchestral music and bursts of pop, adolescent preoccupations and concentration camps. It is about a father and daughter and the effect – years later - of the Holocaust on their relationship, a subject which has rarely been addressed in operatic form. Music by Tom Smail, libretto by Alba Arikha, directed by Orpha Phelan. Conductor : Gabriella Teychenné.

Maya: Mimi Doulton
Leon: Jonathan Brown
Sarah: Helen Charlston
Bella: Camilla Seale
Sam: Christopher Bowen
Barbara: Emily Wenman

CONDUCTOR: Gabriella Teychenné.

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER: Eloise Philpot.

LIGHTING: Petr Vocka.

CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Madeleine Boyd

https://theplaygroundtheatre.london/events/blue-electric-an-opera/

A collaboration between husband and wife based on Alba Arikha's memoir Major/Minor.

BLUE ELECTRIC, based on Alba Arikha’s acclaimed memoir Major/Minor, is a collaboration between husband and wife, an opera of juxtapositions: contemporary orchestral music and bursts of pop, adolescent preoccupations and concentration camps. It is about a father and daughter and the effect – years later - of the Holocaust on their relationship, a subject which has rarely been addressed in operatic form. Music by Tom Smail, libretto by Alba Arikha, directed by Orpha Phelan. Conductor : Gabriella Teychenné.

Maya: Mimi Doulton
Leon: Jonathan Brown
Sarah: Helen Charlston
Bella: Camilla Seale
Sam: Christopher Bowen
Barbara: Emily Wenman

CONDUCTOR: Gabriella Teychenné.

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER: Eloise Philpot.

LIGHTING: Petr Vocka.

CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Madeleine Boyd

https://theplaygroundtheatre.london/events/blue-electric-an-opera/

A collaboration between husband and wife based on Alba Arikha's memoir Major/Minor.

BLUE ELECTRIC, based on Alba Arikha’s acclaimed memoir Major/Minor, is a collaboration between husband and wife, an opera of juxtapositions: contemporary orchestral music and bursts of pop, adolescent preoccupations and concentration camps. It is about a father and daughter and the effect – years later - of the Holocaust on their relationship, a subject which has rarely been addressed in operatic form. Music by Tom Smail, libretto by Alba Arikha, directed by Orpha Phelan. Conductor : Gabriella Teychenné.

Maya: Mimi Doulton
Leon: Jonathan Brown
Sarah: Helen Charlston
Bella: Camilla Seale
Sam: Christopher Bowen
Barbara: Emily Wenman

CONDUCTOR: Gabriella Teychenné.

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER: Eloise Philpot.

LIGHTING: Petr Vocka.

CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Madeleine Boyd

https://theplaygroundtheatre.london/events/blue-electric-an-opera/

https://www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk/whats-on/international-concert-series-201920/international-concert-series-armonico-consort/

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/ticketshop/iframe/promoter-detailed.php?hashId=t-vqayya&id=GKLID&eventRefNo=&target=&performanceId=

https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whatson-event/carols-for-christmas-by-candlelight/

https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whatson-event/festive-family-carols-by-candlelight/

Conducted by Steven Kings with The Regency SInfonia and Monmouth Choral Society

Soprano 1: Emily Wenman
Soprano 2: Philippa Lay
Alto: Sacha Fullerton
Tenor: Huw Evans
Bass: Tomos Jones

https://www.theblaketheatre.org/sat-16-nov-2019-monmouth-choral-society-concert/

Tickets £19 available from Neighbourhood Cafe Yukari, Kew.

https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whatson-event/brahms-requiem-by-candlelight/

More info tbc

On 14 December 1918, women were permitted to stand for Parliament and were granted the vote for the first time in British history. As part of the centenary celebrations for this milestone and to raise awareness of persistent inequalities in society, Blossom Street presents repertoire by famous and lesser-known female composers, both living and those from previous generations, including Rebecca Clarke’s Ave Maria, Judith Weir's Holy Innocents, Kerry Andrew's Night-Time Songs and Elizabeth Poston's The Water of Tyne.

​All of the performers on the Naxos disc This Day, recorded in 2018 and due to be released in January 2019, are women, showcasing works for upper voices. 

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/boxoffice/select/BKlNNZIOMhTG

Neglected today, The Secret Marriage was in its time more popular even than Mozart’s comedies. The fifty-third opera of Domenico Cimarosa (in his time celebrated from Naples to St. Petersburg), when the Emperor Leopold heard it during its first run in Vienna he demanded it be repeated in full that same evening.

It was a huge success and had well over 100 outings in its first year alone, reaching every European capital in the next few years. Not so much looking back to Mozart, Cimarosa’s wit and style prefigure Rossini, born three weeks after the opera’s premiere – this household sitcom was written almost 25 years before The Barber of Seville.

In HGO’s production the opera, with its nimble score, buzzes from the start with effervescent energy. Cimarosa’s score elicits a huge range of colour, and ensembles and arias abound for the very busy cast of six: an extraordinary variety ranging from deft patter and raucous argument to glorious lyricism, all in perfect balance.

HGO’s pacy staging recognises that this is at heart pure musical theatre: sometimes subtle, sometimes slapstick, but always with an steady and compelling connection to the unfolding story.

Directed by Sinéad O’Neill
Music Director Chris Hopkins
With the HGO Orchestra

Carolina: Emily Wenman
Elisetta: Rachel Duckett
Fidalma: Anne Reilly
Paolino: Ross Wilson
Count Robinson: Thomas Coltman
Geronimo: Javier Vilarino

———-

Duration: 2h 30m (incl. 20m interval)
Age guidance: 5–100

Concessions 16th and 17th only
Student tickets first 5 performances only

This is an external production and is not represented by Jacksons Lane. Tickets are sold through an external seller and are not processed by Jacksons Lane's Box Office.

https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/whats-on/the-secret-marriage

Neglected today, The Secret Marriage was in its time more popular even than Mozart’s comedies. The fifty-third opera of Domenico Cimarosa (in his time celebrated from Naples to St. Petersburg), when the Emperor Leopold heard it during its first run in Vienna he demanded it be repeated in full that same evening.

It was a huge success and had well over 100 outings in its first year alone, reaching every European capital in the next few years. Not so much looking back to Mozart, Cimarosa’s wit and style prefigure Rossini, born three weeks after the opera’s premiere – this household sitcom was written almost 25 years before The Barber of Seville.

In HGO’s production the opera, with its nimble score, buzzes from the start with effervescent energy. Cimarosa’s score elicits a huge range of colour, and ensembles and arias abound for the very busy cast of six: an extraordinary variety ranging from deft patter and raucous argument to glorious lyricism, all in perfect balance.

HGO’s pacy staging recognises that this is at heart pure musical theatre: sometimes subtle, sometimes slapstick, but always with an steady and compelling connection to the unfolding story.

Directed by Sinéad O’Neill
Music Director Chris Hopkins
With the HGO Orchestra

Carolina: Emily Wenman
Elisetta: Rachel Duckett
Fidalma: Anne Reilly
Paolino: Ross Wilson
Count Robinson: Thomas Coltman
Geronimo: Javier Vilarino

———-

Duration: 2h 30m (incl. 20m interval)
Age guidance: 5–100

Concessions 16th and 17th only
Student tickets first 5 performances only

This is an external production and is not represented by Jacksons Lane. Tickets are sold through an external seller and are not processed by Jacksons Lane's Box Office.

https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/whats-on/the-secret-marriage

Neglected today, The Secret Marriage was in its time more popular even than Mozart’s comedies. The fifty-third opera of Domenico Cimarosa (in his time celebrated from Naples to St. Petersburg), when the Emperor Leopold heard it during its first run in Vienna he demanded it be repeated in full that same evening.

It was a huge success and had well over 100 outings in its first year alone, reaching every European capital in the next few years. Not so much looking back to Mozart, Cimarosa’s wit and style prefigure Rossini, born three weeks after the opera’s premiere – this household sitcom was written almost 25 years before The Barber of Seville.

In HGO’s production the opera, with its nimble score, buzzes from the start with effervescent energy. Cimarosa’s score elicits a huge range of colour, and ensembles and arias abound for the very busy cast of six: an extraordinary variety ranging from deft patter and raucous argument to glorious lyricism, all in perfect balance.

HGO’s pacy staging recognises that this is at heart pure musical theatre: sometimes subtle, sometimes slapstick, but always with an steady and compelling connection to the unfolding story.

Directed by Sinéad O’Neill
Music Director Chris Hopkins
With the HGO Orchestra

Carolina: Emily Wenman
Elisetta: Rachel Duckett
Fidalma: Anne Reilly
Paolino: Ross Wilson
Count Robinson: Thomas Coltman
Geronimo: Javier Vilarino

———-

Duration: 2h 30m (incl. 20m interval)
Age guidance: 5–100

Concessions 16th and 17th only
Student tickets first 5 performances only

This is an external production and is not represented by Jacksons Lane. Tickets are sold through an external seller and are not processed by Jacksons Lane's Box Office.

https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/whats-on/the-secret-marriage

Neglected today, The Secret Marriage was in its time more popular even than Mozart’s comedies. The fifty-third opera of Domenico Cimarosa (in his time celebrated from Naples to St. Petersburg), when the Emperor Leopold heard it during its first run in Vienna he demanded it be repeated in full that same evening.

It was a huge success and had well over 100 outings in its first year alone, reaching every European capital in the next few years. Not so much looking back to Mozart, Cimarosa’s wit and style prefigure Rossini, born three weeks after the opera’s premiere – this household sitcom was written almost 25 years before The Barber of Seville.

In HGO’s production the opera, with its nimble score, buzzes from the start with effervescent energy. Cimarosa’s score elicits a huge range of colour, and ensembles and arias abound for the very busy cast of six: an extraordinary variety ranging from deft patter and raucous argument to glorious lyricism, all in perfect balance.

HGO’s pacy staging recognises that this is at heart pure musical theatre: sometimes subtle, sometimes slapstick, but always with an steady and compelling connection to the unfolding story.

Directed by Sinéad O’Neill
Music Director Chris Hopkins
With the HGO Orchestra

Carolina: Emily Wenman
Elisetta: Rachel Duckett
Fidalma: Anne Reilly
Paolino: Ross Wilson
Count Robinson: Thomas Coltman
Geronimo: Javier Vilarino

———-

Duration: 2h 30m (incl. 20m interval)
Age guidance: 5–100

Concessions 16th and 17th only
Student tickets first 5 performances only

This is an external production and is not represented by Jacksons Lane. Tickets are sold through an external seller and are not processed by Jacksons Lane's Box Office.

https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/whats-on/the-secret-marriage