Opera Now meets Guildhall Opera Makers: Time and Tide
- Monday, June 17, 2024
Opera Now meets the composers and writers on the Guildhall Opera Making MA, beginning with Will Gardner and Sara Clifford's opera 'Time and Tide'
Features
Writing for opera: following four young composers
- Wednesday, June 12, 2024
The first of three blogs following JAM on the Marsh's composer residency in which four composers write operas based on the life of queer artist and activist, Derek Jarman
'It takes years to build an opera company from the ground up but only a short time to dismantle one': Q&A with composer Des Oliver
- Friday, June 7, 2024
Opera Now Editor, Hattie Butterworth speaks to Des Oliver about his opera 'Windrush, The Journey' which is currently touring with Pegasus Opera Company
'The Ring is a piece of theatre – it's a feeling experience' – Conductor Harry Sever Interview
- Thursday, June 6, 2024
Speaking with conductor Harry Sever as he takes on the role of Longborough Festival Opera's first conducting fellow, overseeing the full Ring Cycle this summer. He meets Theo Elwell to chat about...
‘If you want to know how to move an audience, I can show you how to do that’ - Gweneth Ann Rand interview
- Thursday, June 6, 2024
Soprano Gweneth Ann Rand collaborates with young artists in three concerts for Suffolk's Aldeburgh Festival. She shares with Opera Now her insight into vulnerability, pedagogy and the importance of...
Video of the Day: Claire Booth performs 'Der genügsame Liebhaber'
- Friday, May 24, 2024
Taken from her new album ‘Expressionist Music’, Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn explore the world of Schoenberg's songs
'We all have a connection to the Holocaust' - Before It All Goes Dark opera preview
- Monday, May 20, 2024
A story of Nazi looted art paves the way for a new opera by Jake Heggie for Music Of Remembrance about discovering Jewish identity and the power of journalism
'I assume people will be bored so I try to make roles as visceral as possible': Brindley Sherratt interview
- Thursday, May 9, 2024
As he releases his recital disc on Delphian Records, bass singer Brindley Sherratt shares his approach to Wagner, route into opera and inspiration behind the recording
'I want to allow women to see themselves on an opera stage in an honest and dignified way' - composer Emily Pedersen on writing Screenshot
- Thursday, April 11, 2024
Emerging composer Emily Pendersen speaks about the journey to writing her first opera, Screenshot, exploring the rise of image-based sexual violence
Bringing a new opera of Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree to life in Dorset
- Thursday, April 4, 2024
A new opera of Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree premieres at Dorset Opera this summer. We meet Paul Carr, the production’s composer and director, to discover the journey of the work’s creation
Riccardo Muti’s Italian Opera Academy: safeguarding the future of Italian opera
- Thursday, April 4, 2024
Italian conductor Riccardo Muti’s Italian Opera Academy was launched in 2015 in Ravenna’s Teatro Alighieri. We explore the impact of the maestro on the next generation of opera artists
The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne: ‘I put all my best jokes upfront and try to find even better ones for later. I want to send the audience home euphoric’
- Thursday, April 4, 2024
Director of Glyndebourne’s new production of The Merry Widow, Cal McCrystal talks about the sometimes not-so-subtle art of making opera funny
Antonio Pappano: 10 key performances at the Royal Opera House
- Thursday, April 4, 2024
As Sir Antonio Pappano steps down as music director of the Royal Opera House, Francis Muzzu takes a look back at a representative selection of his many great achievements with the company over the...
English Touring Opera's Robin Norton-Hale: ‘If you don’t get any letters, that means people thought, “That was all right” – I’d rather they felt something’
- Thursday, April 4, 2024
General director of English Touring Opera, Robin Norton-Hale discusses her sanguine drive to present ambitious performances in the current opera climate
Lidiya Yankovskaya: ‘It was often people around my own age who were telling me that women shouldn’t conduct. I got hate mail’
- Thursday, April 4, 2024
Whether conducting the English National Opera, championing refugee musicians or supporting young composers, Russian-American Lidiya Yankovskaya is mindful of the profound connections to her heritage,...
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