Another excellent cause, if you’re looking for ways to help in a grim week for classical music/UK culture: donate if you can and/or simply spread the word 👇

We have to keep on keeping on: stop the planned closure of the BBC Singers - Sign the Petition! chng.it/VBMMgV7P via Change.org UK

I adored ADing on #Dalia . A feat of collaboration w/ living composer & librettist, performers from communities near & far, & yes, Joy the dog🐕! Congratulations team! Karen Gillingham

Feeling gingered up after Streetwise Opera & English National Opera's fantastically practical CO-CREATION workshop. Images, rhythms & words, all tools to rethink who makes opera & how. Thank you! Lucia Vernon-Long Rob Gildon Martin Constantine

An unperformed work, archival sleuthing & finally an uplifting performance of Dolly Collins MISSA HUMANA. 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄𝘀 & Lawrence Warner's performance gave a voice to her distinctive soundworld. Longing to hear it all again!
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The chance to develop new opera is all too rare, so v ready to riff w/ Lewis Coenen-Rowe Thomas Butler on this timely timeless theme.

Last night’s EXAUDI perf of Birman’s Russia : Today. Sound bites = timbral utterances of bleakness & hope. Double confrontation of live & mediated. What is real? Bravi tutti 👏

Looking back on 2022. Four of the Conductor/Director teams of #OHP2022 Julia Burbach, Lada Valesova Lee Reynolds Cecilia Stinton Sian Edwards, Ella Marchment, Martin Lloyd-Evans, francesco cilluffo - John Savournin and David Eaton still to come.

Happening Wednesday ! Join us for our next Research Forum from Dr Barbara Bessac on performance and the decorative arts 1850-1900 in Paris and London. Join us from 1700 (GMT). Details: ecrfrenchart.com/research-forum…

If you read anything this weekend, make it this loving snapshot of Gaziantep by Harriet Rix lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/febr…

Channeling fin-de-siècle mermaid Wigmore Hall, Rozanna Madylus shapeshifted in all ways from Alma to Brünnhilde & back, w/ the incomparable Anna Tilbrook & Counterpoise Fenella Humphreys NIGHT AURAS Kyle Horch. Night of nights!

'Viscardello is Rigoletto, his employer is the Duke of Nottingham, and the opera is set in Boston' say whaaat? #opera #afterlives #OHPRigoletto

Our new show Brünnhilde’s Dream: from Wagnerian icon to everywoman standard.co.uk/culture/music/…
Coming to Wigmore Hall next week with Rozanna Madylus & co!

No reviews in Opera magazine this month. Just a letter #LoveENO #SaveENO Department for Culture, Media and Sport Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee English National Opera Sir Bob Neill MP Michelle Donelan MP

My brilliant colleague John Wilkie has your festiviTREE in hand. Friends, look no further for sustainable forest-scented glory (this Scotsman knows his pines)🌲

Inspired Christmas gifting ahoy! An unforgettable OHP experience & the knowledge that you are supporting a precious part of the creative ecosystem.🎄🎶

New audiences, excellence & experimentation: please sign this petition to protect English National Opera & its valuable work chng.it/wwk6ChXF via
Change.org UK #LoveENO #ChooseOpera

We said goodbye to The Boatswain’s Mate at the weekend! 👋🏼

Thank you to the beautiful St George's Theatre for hosting our last performance, and congratulations to the whole company for a fantastic run. We’re proud to have been able to spread appreciation for Ethel Smyth across the UK.