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The UK's leading opera maestros in conversation
Just thought we’d share a very interesting video here, from an event at the Royal Opera House . Conductors Antonio Pappano, Edward Gardner and our Principal Artist Vladimir Jurowski talk to Sir John...
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The Night Shift in pictures
We’ve just had the films developed from our disposable cameras that we dotted around the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer at the last Night Shift event on 4 May. Here’s a few choice ones for you: For the...
View ArticleElin Manahan Thomas: Speed Interview
As we mentioned in our last post, we’re taking our Night Shift to the Village Underground, Shoreditch, on Friday 24 June – a building played in by the Klaxons, Jarvis Cocker and The XX. It should be a...
View ArticleAlison Bury: Speed Interview
Ahead of our all-Handel programme tomorrow night at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, we caught up with OAE leader and director for this concert, Alison (Ally) Bury… What do you fear the most? Monsters –...
View ArticleThe Story of Mr John…
Next Tuesday 5 July, we’ll be coming straight from Glyndebourne’s Opera House to the Corn Exchange in King’s Lynn to perform in an hour-long family concert, playing highlights from one of Mozart’s most...
View ArticleGet to know the OAE: Part 11
Sorry, we haven’t put one of these up for a while, but the OAE have been just too darned busy! This week, we speak to Projects Manager, Megan Russell: What’s your role in the OAE office? Not sure if I...
View ArticleOAE at the Edinburgh International Festival
We’re really excited to be part of the Edinburgh International Festival and are taking our tour with the brilliant Vladimir Jurowski to the Usher Hall tonight where he’ll be conducting a programme of...
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Current Distractions
Welcome to the first of a new section based around what’s been catching our collective eye… With a variety of different OAE folk taking the helm (this instalment written by me, new boy Matthew...
View ArticleHandel, Theodora CD
Peter Sellers takes Handel’s tale of self sacrificial love between a Christian virgin and a Roman bodyguard in 4th century Antioch and by resetting it in modern day America, transforms it into a...
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Falstaff
Sir Mark Elder conducts Verdi’s ‘commedia lirica’ Falstaff. Adapted from Shakespeare’s plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Falstaff was Verdi’s final opera and only his second...
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Get to know the OAE: Part 10
This week, we chat to Georgina Cooksley about life as an intern with the OAE… What’s your role in the OAE office? I’m the graduate intern so I get to be involved in all parts of the OAE. Mainly I work...
View ArticleSigiswald Kuijken on Newsnight
Many of you may have noticed Violoncello da spalla player Sigiswald Kuijken, on yesterday’s edition of Newsnight. Sigiswald joined Emily Maitless to play the show out with a rendition of Bach’s Bourrée...
View ArticleThrough the grapevine: St Matthew Passion
Pats on backs all round for last week’s St Matthew Passion in London. [View the story “St Matthew Passion, Southbank Centre” on Storify] The post Through the grapevine: St Matthew Passion appeared...
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