Laurence Cummings makes US debut in Boston
In September 2006 Laurence Cummings conducted three staged performances of Monteverdi’s Orfeo with the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston beginning on September 22 at the Shubert Theater. This co-production with English National Opera,  More...

Steve Reich at 70 - previews and profiles
A selection of interviews, profiles and previews of the Phases: Steve Reich at 70 festival held at the Barbican Centre London in October 2006:

Interview with Ivan Hewett in the  More...

Triumph for Turandot at Wiener Volksoper
The Turandot directed by Renaud Doucet, designed by Andre Barbe and lit by Guy Simard received a rapturous ovation at its premiere on Friday October 27th 2006. There were almost exceptionally no dissenting voices in the cheers which greeted  More...

South Bank Show Steve Reich Profile
Steve Reich was the subject of a major TV programme on Sunday 10 December 2006. Presented and edited by Melvin Bragg, the South Bank Show profiles the composer and his work.

As well as interviewing Steve Reich at his home in  More...

Stewart Robertson receives Grammy nomination
Stewart Robertson's recording of The Mines of Sulphur has been shortlisted for a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Opera Recording. This is the first recording ever made of the opera by Richard Rodney Bennett and was made live at the  More...

Laurence Cummings conducts Kirchschlager recital disc
Sony BMG have just released a disc of Handel arias. Laurence Cummings conducts the Basel Kammerorchester with Austrian mezzo soprano Angelika Kirchschlager as the soloist. Hugh Canning recently named it his Disc of the Week in the Sunday  More...

Stewart Robertson
Stewart Robertson conducts Aida, Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail, Samson et Dalila and the world premiere of Carlson’s Anna Karenina for the Florida Grand Opera this season.  More...

Four Star review for McGegan and Levin
Nicholas McGegan and Robert Levin's recent concert in Glasgow has received excellent reviews, including the following in The Guardian:

"Mendelssohn's ability to write a good tune has done his reputation few favours. Nevertheless, anyone tempted  More...

Pierre-André Valade at MusicNOW Chicago
Pierre-André Valade returned to Chicago on January 29 2007 to conduct members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in their regular MusicNOW series of concerts. Having previously conducted there in May 2005 he took up the baton for a programme  More...

Alison Chitty wins Olivier Award
Allied Artists is pleased to congratulate Alison Chitty on her Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for her work on the National Theatre's production of The Voysey Inheritance directed by Peter Gill. The awards were announced at a gala  More...

Henrik Schaefer - Parsifal
Conductor Henrik Schaefer received an overwhelming response to the opening night of Parsifal with Värmlandsoperan in Karlstad, Sweden (April 07). Critics and audiences alike were united in their praise for the talented conductor:

“Karlstad  More...

Peter Bronder makes his debut at La Scala
Peter Bronder makes his debut at La Scala Milan on March 6 as Herod in a new production of Salome. The production is conducted by Daniel Harding and directed by Luc Bondy.

He sings further performances on March 8 and 10.  More...

Sigiswald Kuijken
Sigiswald Kuijken has conducted a number of concerts with conventional orchestras recently in repertoire from Beethoven to Brahms and has also taken up the Violoncello da spalla (also known as the Viola pomposo) following years of research brought  More...

Philip Langridge in revival of Ades' The Tempest
Philip Langridge returns to the Royal Opera House in March 2007 to sing the King of Naples in the revival of the critically acclaimed The Tempest by Thomas Ades.

Performances are on March 12, 15, 17, 20, 23 and 26 and will be conducted  More...

London Handel Festival 2007
The 30th London Handel Festival begins on Tuesday 20 March with Music Director Laurence Cummings conducting performances of Poro, re dell'Indie at the RCM's Britten Theatre. Further performances are on March 22, 26, and 28.

Laurence  More...

Carlo Guelfi
In the 2006/7 season Carlo Guelfi sang Scarpia at the Staatsoper Berlin and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Alfio and Tonio at the Teatro Real in Madrid and Amonasro at La Scala in Milan.  More...

US debut for David Parry
David Parry made his US debut on March 24 conducting performances of The Flying Dutchman with Portland Opera.

Further performances are on March 27, 29 and 31 after which he returns to Europe to conduct Nixon in China for the  More...

Two artists at Opera North
Allied Artists are pleased to announce that Nicholas Kok and Amy Freston will be appearing in Opera North's double bill of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Stravinsky's Les Noces which opens on May 5 in Leeds.

Nicholas Kok conducts both works,  More...

David Parry at Norfolk and Norwich Festival
David Parry begins his tenure as Music Director of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival Chorus with a concert on May 11. He gives a gala performance of the Verdi Requiem at St Andrew's Hall with the Philharmonia Orchestra.  More...

Diana Moore at the Göttingen Handel Festival
After hugely successful performances of the title role in Rinaldo in 2004 Diana Moore returns to the Göttingen Handel Festival this week to sing Sesto in Giulio Cesare. Conducted by Music Director Nicholas McGegan there are three performance  More...

Doreen Curran at Grange Park Opera
Doreen Curran makes her debut at Grange Park Oper this summer as Blanche in Prokofiev's The Gambler. Performances run from May 31 to June 16.

Later  More...

Aldeburgh Festival - Death in Venice
Peter Sidhom and William Towers sing The Traveller and The Voice of Apollo respectively in a new production of Death in Venice at the Aldeburgh Festival conducted by Paul Daniel.

There are three sold out performances on June 8, 11 and 12  More...

Keith Lewis
In the 07/08 season, Keith Lewis will sing a new recital programme at the Edinburgh Festival with pianist Melyvn Tan. Following that he will record Schubert's Winterreise with the New Zealand pianist Michael Houstoun for Trust Records.  More...

Fabio Mastrangelo
Audience and critics alike were united in their praise for conductor Fabio Mastrangelo, who made his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in Moscow on the 3rd June 2007, conducting Tosca. He was substituting Valery Gergiev in a production featuring  More...

Gidon Saks
Gidon Saks is currently singing Scarpia in Bregenzer Festspiele's production of Tosca, which premiered on Thursday 19th July 07.  More...

Pierre-André Valade autumn concerts
Pierre-André Valade begins a busy autumn concert schedule on September 1 by conducting the Tokyo Philharmonic at the Suntory Hall in works by Nono, Lindberg, Grisey and Takemitsu. Later in the month he also begins a regular association with  More...

Peter Savidge at Opera North
Peter Savidge returns to Opera North this autumn to sing Sharpless in Tim Alberry's production of Madam Butterfly. The first night is September 15 with performances in Leeds and on tour until March 2008.

Later in the spring he appears  More...

Peter Sidhom and Philip Langridge in Covent Garden Ring
Peter Sidhom (Alberich) and Philip Langridge (Loge) begin the first of three cycles of The Ring for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden on October 2. Directed by Keith Warner and conducted by ROH Music Director Antonio Pappano, performances  More...

Laurence Cummings and Doreen Curran at ENO
Laurence Cummings conducts a new production of Monteverdi's The Corronation of Poppea at English National Opera from October 18 until November 6. He teams up once again with director Chen Shi-Zheng after their critically acclaimed production  More...

Amy Freston at Glyndebourne on Tour
Amy Freston begins performances of Miss Wordsworth in Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring at Glyndebourne from October 20. Performances run at Glyndebourne and then on tour to Woking, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Plymouth and Stoke-on-Trent  More...

Bibi Heal in Jonathan Dove premiere
Bibi Heal premiere's Jonathan Dove's new chamber opera Kwasi and Kwami in Rotterdam this month. The text for the work is adapted by Arthur Japin from his bestselling novel The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi and the production tours The Netherlands  More...

Henrik Schaefer
Conductor Henrik Schaefer will open a new production of Figaro at Gothenburg Opera on 17th November. He will also be conducting a new production of Les Dialogues des Carmélites with The Hague Conservatory in December 2007.  More...

Marco Guidarini CD release
Marco Guidarini has just issued the first in a series of recordings with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice for the ‘Talent’ label including orchestral works by Massenet, Charpentier and Saint-Saens. Future recordings include all the concerti  More...

Elizabeth Atherton Paris debut
Elizabeth Atherton makes her debut with the Orchestre de Paris in November singing Le Soleil des Eaux by Pierre Boulez and also conducted by the composer.  More...

Amy Freston with Emanuelle Haim and Le Concert d'Astrée
Having recently returned from a successful run singing Miss Wordsworth with Glyndebourne on Tour, Amy Freston moves straight on to France to sing three performances of Handel's Dixit Dominus and Bach's Magnificat with Le Concert  More...

Karlheinz Stockhausen 22.8.28 – 5.12.07
We would like to join others in expressing our deep sadness at the news of the death of Karlheinz Stockhausen and send our heartfelt condolences and sympathy to his family, friends, associates and collaborators.

We received the following  More...

Henrik Schaefer
Conductor Henrick Schaefer has won Swedish Radio’s award for the best Operatic event in Sweden in 2007 for his Parsifal production in Karlstad. Here is the original article, which appeared in the Kulturnyheter on 2nd January 2008:

Opera-  More...

Tatiana Monogarova - Pique Dame
Tatiana Monogarova has just come back from an acclaimed performance of Rachmaninov's The Bells at Hong Kong Arts Festival. Forthcoming engagements include Rimsky Korsakov's The Invisible City of Kitezh (Fevronia) at Cagliari Opera Theatre,  More...

Nicholas McGegan conducts Northern Sinfonia
Nicholas McGegan will conduct the Northern Sinfonia on 6th March at The Sage Gateshead in a programme of Haydn and Mozart, aided by soprano Cyndia Sieden.  More...

Laurence Cummings and Lorna Anderson tour with OAE
Conductor Laurence Cummings and Soprano Lorna Anderson will tour Handel's Messiah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. The opening night will be on 9th March at the New York Lincoln Center. Further performances include Poissy, Bradford-upon-Avon  More...

Philip Langridge
Tenor Philip Langridge will perform in a recital at the Wigmore Hall on 19th March alongside pianist Andras Schiff and mezzo-soprano Hannah-Esther Minutillo in a programme of Janácek, Dvorák and Smetana.  More...

Peter Harvey - Boston SO debut
Baritone Peter Harvey will make his US debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on 20th March 2007, singing in Bach's St. Matthew Passion. The orchestra will be conducted by Bernard Haitink.  More...

Pierre-André Valade and Nicholas Hodges with Basel Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Pierre-André Valade and pianist Nicholas Hodges will perform with the Basel Symphony Orchestra on 28th March, in a programme comprising of Carter, Debussy and Messiaen.  More...

The Minotaur triumphs at Covent Garden
Harrison Birtwistle's new opera The Minotaur premiered on April 15 2008 at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden to rapturous reviews. Described as "an outstanding achievement" in The Guardian and a "glittering success" by The Independent  More...

Moore, Towers and McGegan at Goettingen Handel Festival
Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano) and Wililam Towers (counter-tenor) are currently singing in Handel's Orlando at Goettingen Handel Festival, conducted by Nicholas McGegan.  More...

Sharratt, Savidge and Atherton at Opera North
Nicholas Sharratt, Peter Savidge and Elizabeth Atherton are all featured in Opera North's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which opens in Leeds tonight.
As part of Opera North's Shakespeare season, Sharratt and Savidge are  More...

Peter Sidhom at Scottish Opera
This month Peter Sidhom makes his debut as Falstaff in a new production at Scottish Opera, opening on May 13th at Theatre Royal, Glasgow. Further performances are schedule at His Majesty’s Theatre, (Aberdeen), Eden Court (Inverness) and Edinburgh  More...

Amy Freston debut at Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Having previously sung with Glyndebourne on Tour as Cherubino and Miss Wordsworth, Amy Freston will make her debut for Glyndebourne Festival Opera as Amore in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea on May 18. A semi-staged version of  More...

Thomas Rösner at Welsh National Opera
Thomas Rösner conducts Welsh National Opera in their summer performances of Richard Jones Olivier Award-winning production of Hansel & Gretel from May 30 at the Wales Millennium Centre. Further performances are planned for June 8 and 13 in Cardiff  More...

Allied Artists announces UK representation of Robert Levin
We are delighted to announce UK representation of Robert Levin.
He will be back in London again in 2009 for concerts of Haydn.  More...

Birtwistle "The Tree of Strings" UK premiere
The Arditti Quartet give the UK premiere of Harrison Birtwistle's new string quartet The Tree of Strings on Friday 27 June as part of the 61st Aldeburgh Festival. Also being performed are new arrangements by him of pieces from The Art  More...

Peter Bronder at the Royal Opera House
Peter Bronder sings Sellem in Robert Lepage's new production of The Rake's Progress at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden from July 7. The production is conducted by Thomas Adès and runs for 5 performances until July 18.

Bronder also  More...

Kobie van Rensburg sings Idomeneo in Madrid
Kobie van Resnburg makes his first of three appearances at the Teatro Real Madrid over the next two seasons this week singing Idomeneo, a role which he has also sung this season in Bordeaux and Strasbourg.

In the 2008/09 season he  More...

Allied Artists announce representation of Gregory Vajda
Allied Artists are delighted to announce the UK representation of Hungarian conductor Gregory Vajda.

Gregory Vajda has just made his debut at short notice at the Salzburg Festival replacing Peter Eotvos in the performance of ‘Bluebeard’s  More...

Alison Chitty wins Young Vic Award 2008
The 2008 Young Vic Award was presented to Alison Chitty on July 22 at The Paintframe, National Theatre to recognise her major contribution to the theatre design industry in the UK. Alison received the award at a surprise presentation at the  More...

Vladimir Matorin
Vladimir Matorin will sing Chub in a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Cherevichki by Francesca Zambello at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the 2009/10 season.  More...

Keith Lewis
Keith Lewis gives a recital with Melvyn Tan at the Edinburgh International Festival on August 14th. Songs include works by Beethoven, Liszt, Janacek and Hahn. He takes part in Dvorak’s Requiem with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Rozhdestvensky  More...

Allied Artists at the BBC Proms
This year Allied Artists is represented by Peter Harvey who sings Christus in the St John Passion with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra under Sir John Eliot Gardner on Sunday 24 August and Nicholas Sharratt (who makes  More...

Marco Guidarini
Marco Guidarini has just conducted the first operatic production at the new opera house in Oslo. He leads the Norwegian Opera in Verdi’s ‘Don Carlo’ in the Covent Garden production by Nicholas Hytner with Rene Pape as Filippo II.  More...

Rene Pape
This season Rene Pape sings Gremin, Mephistopheles and Koenig Heinrich at the Staatsoper, Berlin, Koenig Marke, Fasolt and Hunding at the Met, his first Boris in Dresden, Leporello in Vienna and takes part in the Verdi Requiem with the orchestra  More...

Tatiana Monogarova
Following her appearance as the Princess in ‘Kashchei the Immortal’ at the Proms and Tatiana in Evgeny Onegin at the Paris Opera in September, Tatiana Monogarova sings the title role in ‘Iolanta’ with the LPO on October 25th and takes part in  More...

Alan Opie
Alan Opie returns to La Scala to sing Kolenaty in ‘Vec Makropoulos and l’Opera du Rhin to sing Falstaff this season.
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Giulio Cesare in Gothenburg
Laurence Cummings conducts a new production of Giulio Cesare at the Gothenburg Opera in September and October 2008. This will also be the baroque opera staged at Gothenburg Opera and features William Towers in the title role.

The first  More...

Andrea Licata
Andrea Licata has opened in ‘Aida’ in Baltimore after which he returns to Opera North for further performances of ‘Tosca’ on October 22, 25, 28, 31 in Leeds, November 4, 7 at the Lowery Centre, Salford, 11, 14 at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle,  More...

Andrew Parrott in Sweden
Andrew Parrott returns to conduct the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra in September and October 2008 to continue his exciting collaboration with the orchestra and pianist Ronald Brautigam. Following on from their success with Beethoven Piano Concerto  More...

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky returns to London for a concert in the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Tchaikovsky series on November 7th when he will conduct the 2nd Piano Concerto with Viktoria Postnikova as soloist and Suite No. 3 at the Royal Festival  More...

Philip Langridge returns to Opera Australia
Following his critical success in Death in Venice with Opera Australia in 2005, Philip Langridge returns to Sydney to sing Captain Vere in Opera Australia's production of Billy Budd. Conducted by long term collaborator and current Opera  More...

Bibi Heal and Nicholas Sharratt at Opera North
October 4 2008 sees the premiere of a new production of Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing at Opera North featuring Bibi Heal and Nicholas Sharratt in the roles of Mary Turner and Louis Lippmann.

Following performances throughout the UK in  More...

Francesco Corti Interview
The Herald
The passion of Scotland’s new maestro

Francesco Corti is forthright, straight-talking, to the point and fearlessly provocative. If he has to go off the record to make his case clearly understood, he will do  More...

Yuri Simonov
Yuri Simonov conducts BOTH the St. Petersburg AND Moscow Philharmonic orchestras on tour in Britain (sometimes on alternate nights) this month due to the indisposition of Yuri Temirkanov and his own orchestra’s simultaneously scheduled tour  More...

Mercy and Grand: The Tom Waits Project
Mezzo-soprano Jessica Walker continues her Opera North tour of Mercy and Grand: The Tom Waits Project this week with performances at The Lowry (Oct 20), University of York (Oct 22) and The Sage Gateshead (Oct 23), returning to  More...

David Parry and Jane Gibson: The Rape of Lucretia
David Parry conducts staged performances of The Rape of Lucretia on October 24 and 25 at Snape Maltings Concert Hall as part of Aldeburgh Music's "Britten Weekend". The cast and orchestra are drawn from talented young singers and musicians  More...

Kobie van Rensburg in Madrid
Kobie van Rensburg sing's 'Time' in Jürgen Flimm's staged production of Handel's oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Teatro Real Madrid. Conducted by Paul McCreesh Kobie van Rensburg's performances are on November 5,  More...

Pierre-André Valade in Dublin
On Friday 7 November Pierre-André Valade returns to Dublin to conduct a programme of
French music with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and British pianist Freddy Kempf; repertoire he has a close affinity with and which he has conducted  More...

The Miserly Knight
Peter Bronder sings Rachmaninoff's The Miserly Knight at Bridgewater Hall on Friday 21 November with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under their Chief Conductor Gianandrea Noseda. The performance is followed by recording for Chandos Records,  More...

Pierre-André Valade wins the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros
Allied Artists is delighted to announce that Pierre-André Valade has won the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros for the second time. The achievement, awarded on Friday 21 November 2008, recognises his commitment to contemporary music and  More...