Following the ROH announcement about its forthcoming production of George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence, which will have its world premiere on 10 May 2018, I am delighted to say that I will be involved. Full details can be found in this article on the Royal Opera House website.
This December I will be performing with Les Arts Florissants for their Messiah tour 2016. The tour visits Germany, France, Spain, Hungary and the UK. Home turf supporters can see this Christmas classic in the Concert Hall at the Barbican on 19th December – visit barbican.org.uk for more information and tickets. For more exotic destinations please see the Les Arts Florissants website for full details of the tour or check out my Performance Diary.
Live at the BBC Proms – Arcangelo, directed by Jonathan Cohen, at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, in music by Purcell, Blow and Matthew Locke. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07nm3lg
This evening as part of the Beaune International Baroque Opera Festival I will be singing the role of Acis in one of Handel’s masterpieces(!) “Acis and Galatea”. A fabulously compact, varied and rich piece, combined with a very simple story makes for a thoroughly enjoyable listening experience. The wonderful Damien Guillon is at the helm – directing the equally capable Le Banquet Céleste. It will be broadcast live on France Musique at 8pm uk time (9pm French time), for French speakers/sympathisers I will be interviewed at 7pm uk time. Please see www.francemusique.fr/emission/le-concert-du-soir/2016-ete/festival-de-beaune-2016-acis-et-galatee-de-g-f-haendel-en-direct-07-30-2016-20-00 for more details.
‘The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme: The Vigil‘ will be broadcast on BBC Two from 7:30-9:30pm on Thursday 30th June. ‘The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme: Thiepval‘ will be broadcast on BBC One from 9:15am-12:15pm on Friday 1st July.
I am tremendously honoured to have been asked to sing at the commemorative events to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, at the Thiepval Memorial in France. There will be a military vigil starting at 21:15 on 30th June 2016 where I will be singing ‘The Lads in their Hundreds’ (Butterworth) unaccompanied, and on 1st July 2016 I will sing ‘Abide With Me’ (Monk) for the main National Commemorative Event. There will be worldwide coverage provided by the BBC and both events will be broadcast live on BBC Two. For more details please see this article on The...
