Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte is RNCM Opera’s Spring production, with performances in the RNCM Theatre between Wednesday 9 and Saturday 19 March. First performed in 1790, Così fan tutte is set in the bay of Naples where sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella are engaged to Guglielmo and Ferrando. The men trust their fiancées’ faithfulness implicitly but…
The Halle is set to perform a series of concerts at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in March including their specials, Classical Greats and Oscars for Orchestra. Thursday 3 March, 7.30pm Hallé Pops – Classical Greats Programme: Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Elgar Chello Concerto; Copland Fanfare for the Common Man; Barber Adagio…
Emilie & Ogden, aka Emilie Kahn and her harp, Ogden, is set to perform at Manchester’s The Castle on 2 March as part of a brief run of dates for the Montreal artist, who released her debut album 10 000 on 20 November 2015 through Secret City Records. Emilie discovered the harp when The Barr…
RIBA Competitions and the Hallé Concerts Society are pleased to announce that the competition to extend its Hallé St Peter’s facility in Ancoats (Manchester) has been won by a design team led by Stephenson Studio. This proposed new-build extension will form the second phase of the project to transform the Grade II listed former church…
Chilling new opera inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of greed and compulsion A chilling tale of greed and compulsion by Robert Louis Stevenson gets the operatic treatment from composer Stuart MacRae and novelist Louise Welsh. The Devil Inside, their new work, jointly commissioned by Scottish Opera and Music Theatre Wales, is a contemporary reading…
Young Cheshire musicians to perform world premiere at RNCM Day of Percussion on Sunday 7 February 2016. The Love Music Trust’s Percussion Ensemble which features some of the region’s most talented young musicians aged from 14 upwards, led by musical director Mark Concar, who has worked regulatly with leading orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic,…
The Halle is set to hold a number of concerts in February, including a Valentine’s Day Special and a programme of Rachmaninov, Mahler and Shostakovich. We take a look at what’s coming up over the next few weeks. Thursday 11 February, 7.30pm Thursday Series – Rachmaninov, Mahler and Shostakovich Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead; Mahler Kindertotenlieder;…
The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) has been awarded over £400,000 to support exceptional young musicians from the Leverhulme Trust’s Arts Scholarship programme. The grant, totalling £411,000, follows 30 years of support from the Leverhulme Trust – one of the UK’s largest providers of grants and scholarships for research and education – and will…
New Music North West (NMNW), the UK’s largest festival of new British music, returns to Manchester for eight days of music by 100 living composers. Presented by the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) between Friday 22 and Friday 29 January, NMNW offers over 30 free and ticketed events (including afternoon and late night performances)…
A new song dedicated to the Queen was released with a live performance at the Tower of London featuring Manchester soprano Lucy Prendergast, who began her musical career with the Halle Youth Choir and recent Royal Northern College of Music graduate Eleanor Sanderson-Nash. Lucy Prendergast initially trained under the direction of James Burton before progressing…
