This month we’ve got two more of our masterclasses with world-renowned Baroque musicians, another lunchtime concert and a talk demonstrating how Hendrix set the world alight at Monterey in 1967.
Just announced! Critically-acclaimed baritone, Christopher Purves (Academy of Ancient Music, Glyndebourne, BBC Proms) hosts a masterclass with our Handel House Talent singer Emma Stannard (mezzo-soprano).
Another of our lunchtime concerts. This time we’ll be joined by Katie Cowling (recorders) playing music by composers who faced obstacles on their musical journey to success.
Guildhall School’s award-winning Opera department presents a double bill of early operatic works exploring romantic love: pursuit and passion, happiness and heartbreak.
Handel’s pastoral cantata follows Aminta on his campaign to woo the nymph, Fillide. The theme of Cupid’s arrow also runs through John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, composed for the court of King Charles II and considered by many to be the earliest known English opera.
Handel House Talent scheme participant Marta López joins soprano/writer Chloe Lam and friends to re-imagine some of the Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s cantatas
Flaugissimo flute/guitar duo:Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn & Anna Amalia of Prussia & their men
The Dante Quartet returns with actor David Timson as Beethoven to guide you through his Late Quartets and life stories
Vox Animae: the earliest “opera” by a woman, Hildegard’s Ordo Virtutum
New concert/play follows the colourful writer Prosper Merimee, creator of the character Carmen with arrangements of music from Bizet’s opera
