Grange Park Opera are to put on their first (staged) Wagner production - Tristan und Isolde - at this summers festival.
Conductor - Stephen Barlow
Director & Designer - David Fielding
Lighting Design: - Wolfgang Goebbel
King Mark of Cornwall: Clive Bayley
Tristan: Richard Berkeley-Steele
Isolde: Alwyn Mellor
Brangäne: Sara Fulgoni
Kurwenal: Stephen Gadd
Melot: Andrew Rees
A shepherd/a sailor: Richard Roberts
The English Chamber Orchestra
Stephen Fry looks forward to the 2011 Opera Festival at The Grange and discusses Tristan und Isolde, during last years festival.
Robin Hood at the Winter Garden
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So, Saturday night I reacquainted myself with pantomime after a gap of
sixty years or so. I think the last panto I saw was Aladdin at the
Alhambra in Brad...
Carmen, Royal Academy Opera, 19 November 2025
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Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music
Images: Craig Fuller
Carmen – Charlotte Clapperton
Don José – Woogyeom Kim
Micaëla – Madeleine Perring...
Hamlet at the National, or, But He Hasn't Fired!
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Act 3 Scene 4 is a fairly crucial moment in this play. For any readers who
may need their memory refreshing this is the scene where Hamlet kills
Poloniu...
Imprints of Man: Death Metal for piano
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New York metal trio Imperial Triumphant is my best discovery of 2025
(better late than never to a party). Now there’s a new record—not with new
songs, but ...
Amapola by Villeroy Boch
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This painting of a teapot and other crockery from the Amapola series by
Villeroy Boch adds a sense of calm to a wall. Amapola is the word for Poppy
in Span...
NY Wagner Society Announces Auditions for Grants
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The Wagner Society of New York has, for many years, awarded grants to young
singers whose gifts and talents indicate that they may have a future in the
Wag...
The Future
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Today is Nostradomus day.These are my predictions for the coming year (I
hoope I'm wrong)> First, Trump will begin the roundup and deportaton anyone
he ded...
Lahti
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I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius
Festival. I've been wanting to visit since I encountered Osmo Vänskä's
revelatory B...
Royal Opera House announces Ring Cycles for 2018!
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Very excited by this announcement. Must start saving now…. ADVANCE
ANNOUNCEMENT Four full cycles performed September–November 2018 The 2018/19
Season open...