Sun 23 Jun 2013
All Saints’ Boughton Aluph
Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: A Tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
William Christie director
Renata Pokupic mezzo-soprano
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was one of the foremost mezzo-sopranos of our time, and an artist the OAE worked with regularly, most notably at Glyndebourne and on CD. Today’s tribute to her features some of Handel’s most dramatic and emotionally intense arias, interspersed with some of his gutsy orchestra music, all directed by renowned baroque specialist…
A Tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson – Audience Reactions
Mon 10 Jun 2013
The 3 June saw us perform an all Handel programme in the final concert of our 2012-2013 Season – Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: A Tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
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Not all audiences are the same – Last Chance to See…
Fri 31 May 2013
Over the last year we’ve had the opportunity to work with some fantastic collaborators and what’s more, some of those collaborators were our very own audience. At the start of the season, we put a call-out to members of the OAE audience, asking for volunteers with a ‘strong look’ to star in a marketing campaign…
Read MoreLindsay Kemp on Handel and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Wed 29 May 2013
When we close our season on 3 June, all arias performed will be from roles associated with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Here Lindsay Kemp discusses the performer and the history behind the music.
Read MoreFrench Exchange: reviews
Mon 12 Nov 2012
Last week, we enjoyed a fabulous concert with fast rising star Jonathan Cohen conducting and regular OAE collaborator Sarah Connolly singing some wonderful arias from Purcell, Rameau and Charpentier. Here’s what the reviewers said about the concert: Evening Standard The Independent Classical Source Financial Times The Times (subscribers only) Thanks to all who tweeted during…
Read MoreNot all audiences are the same: Rhys and Catherine
Fri 19 Oct 2012
We talk to audience member Rhys and OAE violinist Catherine Ford in the next of our audience/OAE player interview series…
Read MoreNot all audiences are the same: Hannah and Pascha
Tue 2 Oct 2012
Next in our audience/OAE player interview series, we talk to audience member Pascha and OAE Experience Trumpet player Hannah Bishop about their experience of the Season Brochure photoshoot.
Read MoreFeisty Females: Part 2
Sat 29 Sep 2012
Next in our handy guide to female opera characters, we find out more about Iphigenia…if you’re coming to our concert on Sunday at the Royal Festival Hall, you’ll get to hear her distraught aria, taken from Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride.
Read MoreFeisty Females
Wed 26 Sep 2012
Ahead of the first concert in our Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers series this Sunday, celebrating some amazing women in music, we thought we’d give you the lowdown on some of the female opera characters we’ll be featuring over the next few months. First on our list is Medea, one of the most notorious ladykillers of…
Read MoreNot all audiences are the same: Nimneh and Roger
Fri 21 Sep 2012
Sorry for the mini-delay between our audience/player interviews but it’s worth waiting for. Here’s audience member Nimneh and OAE Principal Horn player Roger Montgomery talking about their experience of the photoshoot.
Read MoreQueens, Heroines and Ladykillers: Who’s your heroine?
Mon 10 Sep 2012
Ahead of our Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers series launching on 30 September, celebrating feisty female roles in opera, we’re launching a competition where you could win a night fit for a Queen. Nominate your personal heroine and you’ll be in with the chance to win your own private box plus interval drinks for the opening…
Read MoreNot all audiences are the same: On the presses
Wed 29 Aug 2012
Here’s a set of pictures we meant to post a while back… But better late than never! Thanks to our printers Cantate, some behind-the-scenes pictures of our 2012-2013 brochure being printed at their Coventry printing facility.
Read MoreNot all audiences are the same: Jay and Jan
Wed 15 Aug 2012
So here’s the latest interview in our series featuring the audience members and musicians featured in our new brochure. The unusual pairing of viola and bodybuilder event even got us into the September Issue of Muscle and Fitness magazine! Here’s audience member Jay and OAE Viola player Jan Schlapp.
Read MoreNot all audiences are the same: Greg and Annette
Fri 3 Aug 2012
We’re back with our audience/orchestra interviews. This time, OAE audience member Greg and OAE Viola player Annette Isserlis. Including, at the end, the photos that didn’t quite make the brochure…
Read MoreNot all audiences are the same: Gurpal and Jonathan
Fri 20 Jul 2012
The latest in our series of interviews of audience and orchestra members featured in our campaign for the 2012-2013 season. This time with Night Shift audience member Gurpal and OAE cellist Jonathan.
Read MoreNot all audiences are the same: David and Chi-chi
Tue 10 Jul 2012
Here’s the latest instalment in our series of Orchestra / audience member interviews. This time, audience member David and OAE Principal Double Bass Chi-chi Nwanoku.
Read MoreThe making of the 2012-2013 brochure – behind the scenes
Wed 4 Jul 2012
In our latest video we take you behind the scenes at the photoshoot for the 2012-2013 brochure, and also talk to designer Chris Harrison and photographer Eric Richmond about how the not all audiences are the same idea came about how how the shoot went. View the season brochure.
Read MoreTime to find out – are all audiences the same? New brochure now online…
Fri 11 May 2012
And here it is at last, our full brochure for the 2012-2013 concert season at Southbank Centre.
Read More2012-2013 concerts brochure cover revealed…
Thu 10 May 2012
We’re very excited to be able to now reveal to you the cover of our new 2012-2013 Southbank Centre concerts brochure. It features several of the audience members who star in the campaign, and you’ll notice we’ve turned our strapline around, so it now reads ‘Not all audiences are the same.’
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