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Gavan Ring has given his final performances as a baritone, singing Papageno for Opera North and Irish National Opera and, as recently as May this year, gave his first concert as a tenor which was produced and broadcast by RTÉ in Ireland. WATCH HERE Gavan’s future tenor appearances include Viennese New Year concerts with the Orchestra of Opera North, Juan in...

We are delighted that Mark Padmore was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. In June, as an Artist in Residence at the 2019 Aldeburgh Festival, Mark will curate the Poetry and Music series, appear in seven concerts including performances of Thomas Larcher A Padmore Cycle, Britten Nocturne and Schubert 1828, a recreation of the only all-Schubert concert...

This summer Barrie Kosky will stage Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers at the 2019 Salzburger Festspiele, the sixth new production for the director in this season alone, which has also included Bernstein Candide, Puccini La Boheme and Moritz Eggert M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder based on Fritz Lang’s famous crime film of 1931 (all for Komische Oper Berlin) as...

In June, tenor Sunnyboy Dladla will sing Carmina Burana in Toronto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming with their Festival Orchestra, both conducted by Donald Runnicles. Following his BBC Proms début in 2018, he returns this year to sing Mozart Requiem with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nathalie Stutzmann. Next season...

Christian Curnyn makes his début with Opéra national du Rhin this month conducting a new production of Don Giovanni staged by Marie-Eve Signeyrole. Next season he returns to Opera North (Giulio Cesare), Komische Oper Berlin (Jephtha) and Theatre Basel (Le nozze di Figaro), and further ahead plans include productions at the Royal Opera Covent Garden and Garsington Opera. Christian has...