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Midcoast Symphony Orchestra presents online chat, online auction March 12-14 Preview starts March 6. Share The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra in Brunswick will host its Winter Online Auction and an online chat with Conductor and Music Director Rohan Smith, both during the second week of March. Rohan Smith, conductor and music director of the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra. Photo courtesy of Midcoast Symphony Orchestra The orchestra’s Winter Online Auction is a fundraising event that will help of...

Verdi’s La Traviata. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti, director: Simon Stone. With Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, and Margaret Plummer. Register for free and view here. LIVE 2 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Rattle conducts Stravinsky. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920), Four Norwegian Moods, Suite No 1, and Suite No 2. View here. 2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London, Spring presents ...

1 month old This article is more than 1 month old Richard Wagner’s four-part opera epic will play at London’s Coliseum over several years A scene from Twilight of the Gods at the Coliseum in 2005. Phyllida Lloyd’s production was the last time the Ring Cycle had been staged by ENO. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian A scene from Twilight of the Gods at the Coliseum in 2005. Phyllida Lloyd’s production was the last time the Ring Cycle had been staged by ENO. Photograph: Tristram Ken...

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE ** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. Fr...

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Last modified on Mon 15 Feb 2021 07.14 EST The galumphing comedy of Siegfried leaves me cold The list of operas I’d happily never sit through again grows longer by the year, but Siegfried has been very near the top of it for a long time. I’m not a perfect Wagnerite by any means (another of his greatest works would also be on my blacklist), but nor am I a Wagner-phobe: I find Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung totally compelling parts of The Ring. Yet the galumphing comedy of Siegfried leave...

12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels ...

An opera about the end of the world that leaves you feeling uplifted We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Bridget Davies Save Normal text size Regent Theatre, February 3, 5, 7 It’s a paradox of truly operatic proportions. How can a 152-year-old work that’s largely about the end of all days feel timely and ultimately uplifting? The gods depart for Valhalla in Melbourne Opera’s 2021 Das Rheingold. Credit:Robin Halls / MO In Da...

A THEATRE company based in Somerset is offering socially distanced shows in their mobile pop-up theatre. The Bluebirds Theatre Company will be performing two shows - The Reduced Ring Cycle and The Musicians of Bremen - during the spring and summer this year. They will be using their mobile pop-up theatre - The Popera House - to tour the show. The group are being supported by The Arts Council, Arts Taunton, The Somerset Community Foundation and The Golsoncott Foundation. The shows will...

A THEATRE company based in Somerset is offering socially distanced shows in their mobile pop-up theatre. The Bluebirds Theatre Company will be performing two shows - The Reduced Ring Cycle and The Musicians of Bremen - during the spring and summer this year. They will be using their mobile pop-up theatre - The Popera House - to tour the show. The group are being supported by The Arts Council, Arts Taunton, The Somerset Community Foundation and The Golsoncott Foundation. The shows will...