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1 Washington National Opera Announces Plans to Leave the Kennedy Center 2 Post Kennedy Center Split, Washington National Opera Sets Stephen Schwartz Hosted WEST SIDE STORY Gala & More Waterperry Opera ...

Waterperry Opera Festival has unveiled its full programme for the 2026 Festival. The festival returns this summer from 7-16 August, under the new leadership of Artistic Director and CEO John Savournin ...

Handel’s Semele is one of those works that refuses to sit neatly in a box. First staged at Covent Garden in 1744, it was billed as a “new oratorio” to slip past London’s strict Lenten ban on opera.

Mozart and his librettist Schikaneder’s 1791 opera is a defence of their shared involvement with freemasonry. Its unique blend of the fantastical, the philosophical and popular low comedy focuses on a ...

The annual arts festival from Waterperry House, owned by the School of Philosophy and Economic Science, had folded, and the hunt was on to fill a 10-day slot in its summer calendar. The college ...

Waterperry Opera Festival has appointed John Savournin as artistic director and chief executive. Savournin, who is also a renowned bass-baritone singer, is to helm the Oxford-based opera showcase from ...

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Simon Rattle’s young East London Academy players finally take to the stage; Víkingur Ólafsson makes his Proms debut; and to the woods with Lili Boulanger Direct action has been part of Simon Rattle’s ...