ATHELHAMPTON House, one of the country’s most beautiful Tudor manors, is a perfect setting for Passamezzo – A Handful of Pleasant Delights, a programme of music, words and song illustrating aspects of life in Elizabethan England, on 30th September at 7.30pm. The ancient house, with its beautiful garden and famous topiary trees, is on the…
THE autumn series of Concerts in the West brings the duo of Italian cellist Riccardo Pes and the London-based pianist and composer Alexander Boydconcerts to the three regular venues, Bridport Arts Centre, Ilminster Arts Centre and the Dance House at Crewkerne, on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd September. The programme features works by Prokofiev, Chopin,…
THE 2023 series of Music in Oborne, now a well-established part of the area’s musical calendar, continues on on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th August at 8pm with Mozart’s beautiful and gently satirical Cosi Fan Tutte. Menotti’s The Telephone will be performed on Saturday 20th at 3pm, all at St Cuthbert’s Church and Opera in…
WHEN the no-changes-under-any-circumstances straitjacket was taken off the Gilbert & Sullivan Savoy Operas, the stage was set for a host of brilliant reworkings of these comic classics. Few of the reimaginings have been more successful than Sasha Regan’s all-male productions and next week Bath augiences can enjoy her delightful new take on perhaps the best-loved…
BATH Opera is on tour with the summer 2023 production, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, in an imaginative updated staging which moves the action from the decadence of the late 18th century to the power-plays of 1950s Hollywood. The tour continues at Wincanton Memorial Hall on Friday and Saturday 14th and 15th July, ending at…
THE Aurin Girls Choir from Hungary returns to Bruton at the start of its 2023 UK trip, giving a concert at St Mary’s Church on Monday 26th June at 7.30pm. The choir, from the Kodaly Music School in Kecskemét, has visited Bruton many times before and has a keen following in the Somerset area. It…
CHAMBERMUSICBOX comes to the West Country from 2nd to 4th June for the latest series of Concerts in the West, with a programme of classsical and 20th century works. Playing as a quartet, the line-up is oboeist Philip Haworth, violinist Yuri Kalnits, violist Matthew Kettle and cellist Julia Morneweg. The tour opens with the usual…
THE talented young tenor, Gregory Steward, gives a solo concert on Sunday 11th June at 6pm at St. Michael and All Angels Church, Shute near Honiton. Steward, a recent music graduate, will perform a mixture of classical songs and favourites from the musicals, including South Pacific, Carousel and Les Miserables, plus popular Neapolitan melodies such…
HURN Court Opera, Dorset’s professional opera company, is this year staging Puccini’s much-loved La Boheme, touring from 11th to 15th April, to Christchurch, Salisbury and Winchester. The company has been gaining excellent reviews for its productions, which give young professional singers a chance to perform great roles, as well as bringing opera to new audiences….
DOUGIE Scarfe, chief executive of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, will have been with the Poole-based regional orchestra for ten years this year – and the celebrations began in style when he was named Orchestra Manager of the Year at the ABO/Classical Music Awards in Leeds. This prestigious award recognises his work in championing inclusion and…