For its December 2014 production, Pinchgut Opera will perform Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. Considered to be Gluck’s best work, it is the sixth of seven operas he wrote in Paris. It is a rarely performed masterwork and with it, Pinchgut Opera also marks the 300 anniversary of Gluck’s birth. Iphigénie en Tauride is an intensely dramatic…
Chamber ensemble Resonance launches its 2014 season with a sumptuous programme of romantic masterpieces to celebrate St Valentine’s Day. Opera star Margaret Plummer, mezzo-soprano, joins pianist Chris Cartner for an hour of enchanting highlights from the worlds of opera and song. In the programme: Bizet: Habanera (from ‘Carmen’) Berlioz: Le Spectre de la Rose Mozart: Voi…
Creative Director of Harbour City Opera Sarah Ann Walker talks about why she is forming a new company and announces that Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ is in the line -up for 2014. Sarah Ann Walker admits that she hasn’t slept properly in 7 months. The cause of this insomnia is that she is in the throes of…