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

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

Are you interested in making music with a group of friendly and enthusiastic singers? Have you considered joining a choir, but not sure whether it's for you? Would you like to expand your current repertoire under the guidance of a professional conductor?

Then come along to Chiswick Choir’s Come and Sing day on Saturday 15th September 2018 at Strand on the Green School!

Chiswick Choir is a large amateur choir that has been rehearsing and performing in Chiswick W4 for over forty years. In addition to the ensemble singers we nurture aspiring young professional singers through a programme of vocal scholarships. The Choir performs at least three concerts each year and has covered a wide repertoire covering classical choral works from the 16th-20th centuries along with more contemporary pieces.

Hilary Campbell is a professional musical director, conductor and composer. In addition to her work with Chiswick Choir, she is the founder and conductor of professional chamber choir Blossom Street. She is also MD of Bristol Choral Society and the Music Makers of London. Hilary’s guest work includes ensembles such as BBC Symphony Chorus, the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Chorus, Trinity Laban Chamber Choir, BBC Radio 4’s Daily Service Singers, the University of Greenwich Choir and the New London Singers. In 2018, she undertook her first project as guest conductor of the BBC Singers. For more information please visit www.hilarycampbell.com

We will be learning movements from "Zimbe!", a celebration of music from across Africa arranged for choirs by Alexander L'Estrange.

Tickets are £20 (£10 for under 18s)

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/thames-rd/strand-on-the-green-junior-school/come-and-sing-with-chiswick-choir

Join St Martin’s Voices for an evening of choral works including the great Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes.

#Brahms #ChoralMusic #ConcertsbyCandlelight #Schubert #SoSM

Tickets are now on sale and always go fast so be quick - book them! www.alburyvineyard.com/collections/events/products/opera

Featuring performances of much-loved music by our young professional opera singers, we promise an afternoon of your favourite opera classics, award-winning organic wine and homemade cakes. Sit amongst the vines and enjoy beautiful views over the Surrey Hills whilst sipping “A glass of Albury” and listening to a medley of opera favourites.

Tickets are £35 per person (10% discount for wine club members) which includes a glass of our Albury Estate sparkling wine on arrival, and homemade cakes in the interval. Albury wines and soft drinks will be available to buy by the glass and bottle on the day.