Sunday 29 March: Bridgewater Hall – The Halle. Karl-Heinz Steffens conducts and Denis Kozhukhim is featured on piano as the Halle performs three magnificent pieces – Tchaikovsky’s majestic and awe-inspiring Swan Lake Suite, Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 1 and Sibelius’ Symphony No 1. Tickets £39-£13. 7.30pm.. Monday 30 March: Royal Northern College of Music – Laura Wright. Soprano Laura Wright…
Saturday 11 April, 7.30pm Pops: Singin’ in the Rain: A Tribute to Gene Kelly Join Broadway maestro Larry Blank and a trio of star vocalists in a tribute to Hollywood’s greatest song and dance man, Gene Kelly. Performed by the full forces of the Hallé, these orchestrations and arrangements are some of the best ever…
It was the opera ‘they tried to ban’. Verdi’s work, based upon the play Le roi s’amue by Victor Hugo and with an Italian libretto written by Fransesco Maria Piave, caused no short amount of outrage when it originally premiered. Thankfully, it has survived to become regarded as the first of Verdi’s operatic masterpieces. Rigoletto…
We pick out some of the classical highlights in Manchester this week including events at the Bridgewater Hall, RNCM and Chetham’s.
Offering a money back guarantee for a production is a brave move. But for Sol3 Mio it’s a pretty safe bet that there won’t be any claims on it. The trio, tenor brothers Pene and Amitai Pati and their baritone cousin Moses Mackey, have quickly established themselves, becoming 2014’s highest selling debut opera act and…
Monday 16th March: The Lowry Theatre – Sol3 Mio. Tenor brothers Pene and Amitai Pati alongside their baritone cousin Moses Mackay present three powerful operatic voices alongside their irrepressible Samoan humour. Having gone five times platinum in just six weeks in New Zealand, they scored the biggest selling album of 2014 overtaking Lorde in the process….
World’s biggest-selling opera debut act of 2014 at the Lowry Concerts generally don’t come with a money-back guarantee of a good time (which is probably a relief for some artists and labels out there). But vocal trio Sol3 Mio, the world’s biggest-selling debut act of 2014, are so confident that they have become the first classical…
Thursday 19 March, 7.30pm Thursday Series Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.2 Mahler Symphony No.5 Sir Mark Elder conductor | Alisa Weilerstein cello Few cellists could be more suited to the broad expressive palette of Shostakovich’s Second Concerto than the young American Alisa Weilerstein, winner of the BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Year 2014. More intimate…
Manchester International Festival, the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events, has announced its programme for 2015. The event, which runs from Thursday 2nd July to Sunday 19th July has been taking place biennially since being launched in 2007 as an artist-led commissioning festival, presenting new works from across the visual arts, performing…
See the award-winning jazz and classical musicians of the future Outstanding student soloists from across Chetham’s School of Music are set to perform a series of 20–minute recitals within this full-length concert, featuring jazz numbers including Cry Me A River, Bye Bye Blackbird and Smile. As the largest specialist music school in the UK and…
