Concerts & Events

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Opera

Garsington Opera: The Queen of Spades

Douglas Boyd – conductor
Jack Furness – director
Garsington Opera Chorus
Garsington Opera Youth Company

 

Herman – Aaron Cawley
Lisa/Chloe – Laura Wilde
The Countess – Diana Montague
Count Tomsky/Plutus – Robert Hayward
Prince Yeletsky – Roderick Williams
Polina/Daphnis – Stephanie Wake-Edwards
Tchekalinsky – Sam Furness
Surin – Simon Shibambu

  • Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades
Garsington Opera

Vidya Patel - Artist in Residence 2024/25
Small-ensemble performance

Leicester: Vidya Patel, A Bride's Woven Plea

Vidya Patel – Artist in Residence
Shammi Pithia – composer
Shankho Chaudhuri – assistant director
Manuela Fleming – costume designer
Zeynep Gunaydin – producer
Ciara Moss – technical stage manager and lighting designer
Suhani Dhanki – dancer
Rohan Roy – Indian violin
Gideon Robinson – violin
Yaroslava Trofymchuk – cello
Luke Whitehead – bassoon
Elin Samuel – harp

Curve Theatre

Artwork depicting a woman and soldier embracing
Opera

Garsington Opera: L'elisir d'amore

Chloe Rooke – conductor
Christopher Luscombe – director
Garsington Opera Chorus

 

Adina – Madison Leonard
Nemorino – Oleksiy Palchykov
Belcore – Carles Pachon
Dr Dulcamara – Richard Burkhard

  • Donizetti L'elisir d'amore
Garsington Opera

Stained glass window art in a church
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: This Worlde's Joie

Geraint Bowen – conductor
Eleanor Dennis – soprano
James Oxley – tenor
Malachy Frame – baritone
Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Choristers of Hereford Cathedral

  • Smyth Overture, The Wreckers
  • Dvořák Te Deum
  • Mathias This Worlde's Joie
Hereford Cathedral

Credit: Michael Whitefoot
Community performance

Three Choirs Festival: Eucharist Service

Geraint Bowen – conductor
Hereford Cathedral Choir

  • Haydn Schöpfungsmesse
  • Mozart Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de confessore
  • Mozart Ave verum corpus
Hereford Cathedral

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Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Howells's Hymnus Paradisi

Adrian Partington – conductor
Rebecca Hardwick – soprano
Sarah Connolly – mezzo-soprano
Michael Bell – tenor
Malachy Frame – baritone
Three Choirs Festival Chorus

  • Howells Paradise Rondel
  • Bliss Mary of Magdala
  • Howells Hymnus Paradisi
Hereford Cathedral

Painting of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: The Atonement

Samuel Hudson – conductor
Rebecca Hardwick – soprano
Aoife Miskelly – soprano
Amy Holyland – mezzo-soprano
Martha McLorian – mezzo-soprano
Marc Le Brocq – tenor
David Stout – baritone
Three Choirs Festival Chorus

  • Coleridge-Taylor The Atonement
Hereford Cathedral

Philharmonia Orchestra and Three Choirs Festval Chorus in performance at Three Choirs Festival
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Fauré's Requiem

Adrian Partington – conductor
Heidi Krutzen – harp
Florence Price – soprano
Alex Ashworth – baritone
Three Choirs Festival Voices

  • Debussy Danses Sacrées et Profanes
  • Tabakova Centuries of Meditations
  • Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus
  • Fauré Requiem
Hereford Cathedral

Press shot of contralto Jess Dandy against a floral background, facing the side
Concert

Three Choirs Festival: Mendelssohn's Elijah

Geraint Bowen – conductor
Katherine Broderick – soprano
Jess Dandy – contralto
Anthony Gregory – tenor
Matthew Brook – baritone
Three Choirs Festival Chorus

Hereford Cathedral

Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducting the Philharmonia at the Mikkeli Music Festival
Concert

Mikkeli Music Festival 2025

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Anthony Gabriele – conductor
Christoph Koncz – conductor
Johanna Rusanen – soprano
Ville Rusanen – baritone
Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat Male Voice Choir
Senja Rummukainen – cello
Dominate-kuoro

  • Sibelius En Saga
  • Sibelius Kullervo
  • Stravinsky The Fairy's Kiss: Divertimento
  • Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1
  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Mozart Requiem (arr. Levin)
Mikkeli Music Festival, Finland

Santtu-Matias Rouvali sat outdoors with his back against a tree trunk, looking upwards and outwards
Concert

BBC Proms: Bruce Liu plays Tchaikovsky

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Bruce Liu – piano

  • Ortiz Antrópolis
  • Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Royal Albert Hall

Sol Gabetta leaning on her cello case and smiling
Concert

Hamburg: Santtu and Sol Gabetta

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Sol Gabetta – cello

  • Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien
  • Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1
  • Say Symphony No. 5
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Principal Conductor Santtu Matias-Rouvali conducts the Philharmonia
Concert

Romania: George Enescu International Festival with Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Santtu-Matias Rouvali – conductor
Andrei Ioniță – cello
Alexandra Dariescu – piano

  • Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
  • Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1
  • Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1945)
  • Enescu Phantasy for Piano and Orchestra
  • Shostakovich Symphony No. 7, 'Leningrad'
Grand Palace Hall, Bucharest

Members of the Philharmonia playing focusing on bassists
Concert

Haddington: Beethoven and Mozart with Steven Osborne

Rory Macdonald – conductor
Steven Osborne – piano

  • Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
  • Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27, K. 595
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica'
St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington

Close up of Philharmonia First Violins in concert at Royal Festival Hall
Concert

Perth: Beethoven and Mozart with Steven Osborne

Rory Macdonald – conductor
Steven Osborne – piano

  • Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
  • Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27, K. 595
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica'
Perth Concert Hall