Playlist: Lord of the Strings
Fri 21 Nov 2014
Next week we’re performing an all-strings programme at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall with Richard Tognetti.
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Put your thinking caps on and name a concert for us…
Mon 10 Nov 2014
Wow, that came round fast. It only seems like yesterday that we were asking you to help us name a concert in our current season (Lord of the Strings, coming up on 25 Nov and on tour), and here we are doing it all over again – this time for our 2015-2016 season, which gets announced in January.
Read MoreSomething to look forward to: Glyndebourne 2015
Tue 26 Aug 2014
The dinner jackets have been returned to their wardrobes and the picnic hampers stowed as Glyndebourne is over for another year.
Read More5 things you (probably) didn’t know about Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera
Mon 30 Jun 2014
We’re currently performing La Finta Giardiniera at Glyndebourne Opera House. Here are 5 things you probably didn’t know about this Mozart opera, check it out and tell us about it!
Read MoreThe Hall of the Shame
Mon 19 May 2014
Over the last few weeks absolutely loads of you have been in touch to tell us your most hated classical pieces. And we weren’t exempt, with one person arguing this ”doesn’t achieve anything. Just more nauseating PR”, I think it’s safe to assume we made his hall of shame. We had a great laugh hearing some of your responses and have put together the definitive list. So get your ear plugs at the ready, here’s you top ten most hated classical pieces.
Read MoreOperamaniac – 5 Operas to see before you die
Thu 17 Apr 2014
We all have our favourite operas (if you are into opera, of course). And frequently an intense debate among opera fanatics can arise over who is the best composer. After two hundred years we still debate about Wagner and Verdi, two amazing composers that changed opera forever. With this in mind, I have recently been asked the following: “Daniel, if you had to nominate five (and only five) operas that everyone must see before they die, what would they be?”
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Speed Interview – Victoria Simmonds
Thu 28 Nov 2013
We chased down the wonderful Victoria Simmonds; aka Flamel in our up and coming concert performance of Offenbach’s Fantasio, to talk about some of the finer things in life (books, opera, Brad Pitt, that sort of thing…)
Read MoreMozart – The Final Rush
Fri 22 Nov 2013
Time is running out to pre-order our brand new CD – Mozart’s Complete Horn Concertos, with our Principal Horn Roger Montgomery. Purchase it before Monday to receive a special discounted rate!
Read MorePre-concert talk: Julian Rushton – 29 January 2013
Tue 11 Jun 2013
Professor Julian Rushton takes a detailed look at Mozart’s last three symphonies, in a pre-concert talk given before the concert ‘By Jupiter, that’s the last of Mozart!’ on 29 January 2013 at the Royal Festival Hall, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
Read MoreMozart, Le nozze di Figaro DVD
Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro is the quintessential Glyndebourne opera – first performed in 1934 and in 1994 when the opera house re-opened.
‘This is a Figaro of rare grace, naturalness and charm’, said The Daily Telegraph, and for The Sunday Times it was a production that ‘affirms Mozart’s most beloved masterpiece as both of its time and perennially modern, Grandage oiling the comic mechanisms of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretto with a master technician’s hands.’
Read MoreCurrent Distractions
Thu 25 Apr 2013
A Viola player using the latest technology to create a musical composition, an artist based in Singapore that can create life-like images with just paint and resin – there’s so much to see here and all so culturally nourishing. Plus, if you can make it to the bottom, there’s a picture of Haydn in hair curlers.
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Speed Interview – Stuart Jackson
Wed 13 Mar 2013
On 22 March, our first concert as part of the Kings Place Bach Unwrapped series will explore Bach’s Cantatas and Brandenburg Concertos. Among the performers will be critically acclaimed tenor; Stuart Jackson.
Read MoreBy Jupiter, that’s the last of Mozart: reviews and reaction
Tue 5 Feb 2013
We finally finished our European tour with Sir Simon Rattle with a flourish at the Royal Festival Hall last Tuesday.
Here’s what the press had to say, as well as what you thought of the night.
A new Figaro
Wed 3 Oct 2012
At the end of September, OAE players visited St Laurence School in Bradford on Avon for our annual opera project with eight classes of Year 7’s who had just joined the school.
Read MoreCurrent Distractions
Thu 30 Aug 2012
Welcome to the first of a new section based around what’s been catching our collective eye…
Read MoreGlyndebourne’s Le Nozze di Figaro – free and on demand
Fri 24 Aug 2012
As ever, this summer we’ve been down in Glyndebourne, this year performing in the pit for two operas, The Fairy Queen and Le Nozze di Figaro. We’re delighted to say that Glyndebourne have made available this completely free stream of Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Robin Ticciati, which you can enjoy here until 2 September. Happy viewing!
Don’t forget that you can purchase DVDs of the Glyndebourne productions of The Fairy Queen and Rinaldo in our online shop.
Act 1
Act 2
Read MoreFigaro in pictures
Tue 17 Jul 2012
We’re almost halfway through our run of The Marriage of Figaro at Glyndebourne and there’s been some great response to it so far.
Read MoreMozart Requiem CD
A new recording of Mozart’s Requiem with the Choir of New College Oxford.
Read MoreVOTE for a concert title!
Fri 25 Nov 2011
You may remember that a while back we asked you for your suggestions for a concert title, for an event in our yet-to-be-announced 2012-2013 London Southbank Centre season. The concert was an all Mozart one featuring his last three symphonies, Numbers 39, 40 and 41, Jupiter. There were lots of great suggestions and we’ve picked out our favourite four for a public vote. So, take a look below and select your favourite. Voting closes on Tuesday morning.
Read MoreName a concert for us!
Fri 28 Oct 2011
It’s time for what has now become a yearly tradition for us on the OAE blog, where we turn to you, our readers to help us name a concert in our season. Last time you came up with ‘Fingers, Felix and the Freeshooter’ (for a concert of Weber, Mozart and Mendelssohn that started our current season), and the previous year the winning title was ‘Papa Haydn and Sister Act’, for a concert featuring music by Haydn and the Labéque Sisters on piano.
So, you did us proud in past seasons and now, as we plan our 2012-2013 Season (yes, we work a LONG time ahead!), we are turning to you again for some help. The concert is below – can you think of a catchy title for it? Leave your ideas below as comments and we’ll pick our favourite. For those of you new to this, each of our London concerts has a title, intended to give potential ticket-buyers a flavour of the evening. They can be straightforward, witty or even irreverent.
Suggestions must be in by next Friday 4 November. And in case you’re really keen, the season goes on sale in February next year.
Get thinking!
The concert:
Mozart Symphony No.39
Mozart Symphony No.40
Mozart Symphony No.41, Jupiter
(i.e. Mozart’s last three symphonies)
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