Best of luck! So so sorry not to be able to get there…x

Pappano: “There is a strange and misguided wokeism. If you’re supporting an opera in a church basement or something, that’s more important than the Royal Opera House, the English National Opera, the Welsh National Opera? Give me a break…” theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

Leeds Lieder and South Asian Arts-uk are excited to bring you the world premiere performance of Punjabi Proverbs by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, featuring Nina Kanter; Oscar Castellino and Keval Shah.

This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate cross-cultural art✨

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We’ve reached that point in the week where we would all benefit from seeing some baby bats eating bananas

This Saturday at 1pm, we launch a major new BBC Radio 3 series: ‘The Land Without Music?’ with Richard Morrison — featuring Dr Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason Nicola Benedetti James MacMillan and more. This thoughtful piece in today’s The Times and The Sunday Times offers a taste of what’s to come: thetimes.co.uk/article/490fba…

Not sure where to start in planning your festival itinerary? Take a look at our festival overview to get you going!

Great to hear BBC Radio 4 celebrating the vibrancy of today’s jazz scene this morning, as Mishal Husain interviewed Soweto Kinch on BBC Radio 4 Today about his new BBC Radio 3 show ’Round Midnight. Listen from 08:49:20 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

guess i'll die, france, 13th century

Had a brilliant afternoon rehearsing with Libby Burgess
ahead of the New Paths Music
festival next week. What a fabulous musician she is! 🤩

Check out the beautifully curated programmes she and the team have created here:

newpathsmusic.com

Hope to see you there!

New Yorkers! Hating this wind & rain? May I invite you to have this on repeat in the background while you do your emails?

People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums - a thread 🧵

The first track from Prism is out TODAY!!
🤩🥳🤩🥳🤩
You can pre-order the rest in all the usual places now! - So much good music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad Sarah Frances Jenkins Cameron Biles-Liddell Sarah Lianne Lewis Bethan Morgan-Williams Michael Small Ailie Robertson & loads more! ❤️

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Thanks Classical Music Magazine for promoting the 2024 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize, and Concert 9th November classical-music.uk/news/article/p… David Hill Cheryl Frances-Hoad Lucy Colquhoun Will Vann

One of the most heartening tweets (are they still called that?) I've seen in a long time. Listen up everyone! MUSIC AS MISSION: Choirs can revitalise churches, driving growth and rejuvenation. Great to see it recognised and supported. All credit to St Giles-in-the-Fields

Note to all composers: write your scores in C. The usual octave transpositions are ok. I spent 6 weeks deciphering the chords in Elektra. After that I decided I’ll not put any conductor colleagues through that unnecessary ordeal with my own scores.

Pleased to share this book with the world, released on Easter Day!

Every voice has a story…

Win a free copy here ⬇️

Reviews of Bluebeard English National Opera are in & (for once) I have read them cos yesterday was so surreal that I’m still processing it. Instead of shopping in the supermarket, I found myself on stage in costume having gold confetti thrown over me. Thanks to Team ENO for making me so welcome.

It was a great pleasure to chat with James Jolly at Gramophone a few weeks ago about the delights we have in store next month at Leeds Lieder’s 20th Anniversary Festival. Hope to see loads of you there!!

Truly staggering singing & playing from the entire cast, huge chorus & band in English National Opera Jenufa. I hope the authors of Arts Council England opera analysis + Darren Henley CBE + Nick Serota go to see how a 120-year old opera handles male violence, honour killing and other, er, “relevant” ideas.

Legend.