This year’s summer festival at the historic opera house opens with Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Sevilla (May 16-July 3) followed by the first-ever Glyndebourne staging of Wagner’s psychological drama Parsifal (May 17- June 24). Later on in the summer we can look forward to Handel’s Saul, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Verdi’s Falstaff and Janáček’s […]
Sussex is proud to boast one of the UK’s most cherished music festivals, ‘a gathering of the jazz and soul tribes like no other’ (The Independent). The only problem is that there’s too much quality music to choose from. 2025 headliners include UK multi-genre performer Jacob Collier, US neo soul artist Maxwell, Nile Rodgers & […]
South Downs Summer Music is taking place in Alfriston between 15 and 20 July. A celebration of music and community, the festival is known and loved for its laid-back, friendly atmosphere and ambitious and varied programming, ranging this year from audience favourites such as Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, Britten’s Simple Symphony through works of recently re-discovered female and minority composers […]
This is the sixth edition of the annual classical music festival, and features five concerts in the historic county town. Musicians will riff on the music of Bach, Handel et al: we’re particularly looking forward to Wild Men of the Baroque (July 18) featuring Piers Adams on recorders, and David Wright on harpsichord. Strike a […]
This partnership of painting and music is made up of Berneray, an exhibition of Susie Monnington’s Hebridean beach-inspired paintings, complemented by a virtuosic chamber performance by Piers Adams of Howard Moody’s Eagle Concerto (on Sep 11), itself inspired by sounds and sightings of eagles in the Outer Hebrides. Get tickets from Susie's website here.
Composer Tobias Wheal and artist Geoff Hands began collaborating in 2023, exploring connections between music, drawing, and text. Their first shared project grew from a drawing walk on Highdown Hill, where Geoff’s sketches and Tobias’s writings evolved into a concertina book, later used as a musical score. This exchange of sound and image has since expanded through studio-based paintings, […]
After a three-week run of pre-festival events, this year’s edition proper is launched with the UK premiere of 1736 French baroque opera Les Caractères de l’Amour, by Mademoiselle Duval, which we can safely bet will be a first for most of the audience. There follows a melodic melange of concerts on the theme of love, […]
The most intriguing of the three operas staged this autumn is a world premiere adaptation, by composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and librettist Rachael Hewer, of Edith Nesbit’s classic The Railway Children, transposed to the Cold War era. There are also re-runs of Peter Hall’s 1981 staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Floris Visser’s 2022 […]
We invite you to step into the candlelit grandeur of the Paris Opera House for a night of dining and classic silent cinema at our one-of-a-kind Phantom of the Opera Soirée Following our screening of the 1925 classic The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney and with a live score from composer Paul Robinson […]
A festive programme including Britten’s Ceremony of Carols (with harpist Jean Kelly) and Vivaldi’s Gloria, performed with period instruments and professional soloists. The Britten piece kicks off the Britten Festival, marking the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death. The choir are also performing a carol concert at St Michael’s Church in Lewes on the 17th, […]
Ellen Kent is known for her spectacular touring opera shows, two of which are coming to Brighton’s Theatre Royal this January as part of the director’s ‘Farewell Opera Tour’ (she’s retiring after 30 years in the business). First up is Bizet’s popular extravaganza, Carmen: expect dramatic staging, vibrant costumes, and flamenco dancers. This is followed […]
After the death of cult film director David Lynch, the experimental Californian rock band Xiu Xiu received requests to revive their interpretation of the Twin Peaks soundtrack, which they toured between 2016 and 2018. They decided to concoct a totally new project. Eraserhead Xiu Xiu is a live concert with accompanying film that uses field […]
