Artist Events

18, 19, 20 April 2024

Lente Verelst: The End of the the World Party
Conductor: Anita Datta
Director: Russell Plows

Neil Balfour performs Navin in this exciting new immersive opera, which follows last year’s sell-out performances of More Bumps in the Night.

2, 8, 12, 16, 22, 26 March | 5, 10, 15, 20, 26 April | 2, 4, 11, 17, 24, 28 May 2024

Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
Conductor: Jack Sheen
Director: Polly Graham

Nazan Fikret makes her role debut as Anne Trulove and Trevor Eliot Bowes performs Father Trulove, a role he last performed with the Munich Philharmonic.

20 April 2024

Puccini: Tosca
Conductor: Peter Selwyn

Simon Wilding performs Sacristan in this concert performance.

28 April 2024

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
Conductor: Ronald Corp

The concert with the The London Chorus and New London Orchestra takes place at Cadogan Hall.

4 May 2024

Mendelssohn: Elijah
Conductor: Adrian Partington

The concert with Gloucester Choral Society takes place at Gloucester Cathedral.

8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 23, 25, 30 May | 1, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 June 2024

Verdi: La traviata
Conductor: Stuart Stratford
Director: Sir David McVicar

Monwabisi Lindi performs Gastone in this classic production first seen in 2008.

31 May | 8, 13, 27, 29 June | 5, 8, 26 July | 9, 10 August | 7 September 2024

Verdi: La traviata
Conductor: Bryan Evans
Director: Cameron Menzies

Robyn Lyn Evans and Philip Smith perform Alfredo and Germont in this production touring England, France and to Jersey.

1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 June 2024

Mozart: The Magic Flute
Conductor: Finnegan Downie Dear
Director: Melly Still

Nazan Fikret performs the Queen of the Night in Melly Still’s new production of The Magic Flute, at the inaugural Nevill Holt Festival.

6, 15, 20, 23, 26, 29 June | 7 July 2024

Rachmaninov: Aleko
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
Conductor: Gianluca Marcianò
Director: Stephen Medcalf

Ailish Tynan performs Zemfira in Aleko and Nella, alongside Olivia Ray as La Ciesca, in Gianni Schicchi.

8 June 2024

Messiaen: Harawi
Piano: Simon Lepper

Gweneth Ann Rand, an acclaimed Messiaen interpreter, performs all three of his great song cycles across this Festival – beginning with his “song of love and death”, the Peruvian-inflected Harawi.

11 June 2024

Forget me not – Queer Composers
Conductor: Matthias Stötzel

This concert tells the queer life stories of well-known and lesser-known composers such as Ethel Smyth, Chopin, Schubert, Bernstein and others. With songs ranging from classical to jazz and musicals, as well as accompanying moderation, the artists take the audience on a journey through music history.

14 June 2024

Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi
Messiaen: Trois mélodies
Piano: Simon Lepper

The second of Rand’s three Messiaen recitals combines love songs for his first wife with the Trois Mélodies which memorialised his mother, and incorporates vibrant projected artworks by Rachel Jones.