New brochure now online…
Fri 17 May 2013
The time has come to unveil our new season brochure.This year we went for a purely visual approach, developed with our designers Harrison and Co and photographer Eric Richmond, which has a slight retro feel, using geometric shapes combined with a simple two tone palette.
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French Exchange: Audience Reactions
Wed 12 Dec 2012
After last month’s performance of Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: French Exchange at Southbank Centre, we spoke with some audience members to find out what they thought of the concert.
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 MoreFeisty Females: Part 4
Fri 2 Nov 2012
Our guide to female opera characters returns, with a look at Phaedra… The fabulous Sarah Connolly will be taking on the role next Thursday at our next Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie.
Read MoreMahler Totenfeier CD
In this live recording from the Royal Festival Hall, we shine our musical torch into the realms of some later repertoire, shedding new light on the music of Mahler.
Read MoreFeisty Females: Part 3
Sun 30 Sep 2012
In Part 3 of our guide to female opera characters, we’re looking into the life of famous queen Dido…and tonight at the Royal Festival Hall, Anna Caterina Antonacci will be portraying the lady herself in an aria from Berlioz’s grand opera Les Troyens. Who was she? Dido was founder and queen of Carthage. She fled…
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 More2012-2013 Season – sneak preview
Wed 25 Jan 2012
As you may have read in a previous post, this Monday we launched our 2012-2013 Southbank Centre season to the press at the Royal Festival Hall. So it’s now time to give you some highlights and tell you what’s in store. Public booking for the season opens on 14 Feb, but you can book NOW…
Read MoreDido & Aeneas CD
Henry Purcell Dido & Aeneas An opera in three acts with Sarah Connolly, Gerald Finley, Lucy Crowe, Patricia Bardon, William Purefoy, Sarah Tynan, John Mark Ainsley, Carys Lane and Rebecca Outram. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Choir of the Enlightenment Elizabeth Kenny & Steven Devine music directors Total Playing Time: 69.49 CHAN 0757
Read MoreTo Paris with the OAE: a video diary
Thu 31 Mar 2011
Here’s a little video diary from our trip to Paris back in January, when we took a supersized OAE there for a concert of Wagner, Liszt and Mahler with conductor Vladimir Jurowski and mezzo soprano Sarah Connolly. We armed Communications Director William Norris with a video camera, and here are the results:
Read MoreSymphonic Enlightenment – Vox Pops
Tue 1 Mar 2011
We’ve had a bit of a backlog of videos here, so these audience vox pops have been somewhat delayed. But they’re here now. After our Symphonic Enlightenment programme of Wagner, Mahler and Liszt at the Royal Festival Hall back on 21 January we asked audience members what they had made of the performance (with conductor…
Read MoreParisien Pictures
Thu 3 Feb 2011
Projects Manager Megan Russell got snapping when we were in Paris with Vladimir Jurowski and our Symphonic Enlightenment programme a couple of weeks ago:
Read MoreSarah Connolly on Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer /Journeyman/ Traveller
Fri 21 Jan 2011
Tonight we play our Symphonic Enlightenment programme at the Royal Festival Hall – a late romantic programme of Wagner, Mahler and Liszt with 90 players on stage. For us, a huge undertaking. Parts of the programme had their first airing on Wednesday at our (Sold out) Night Shift, but tonight will be the first time…
Read MoreSarah Connolly on Mahler, turbo-thrust breaths and Wagnerian hysteria…
Fri 14 Jan 2011
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly who sings with us in London and Paris next week, talks to journalist Andrew Mellor about her work with later romantic repertoire such as Mahler and Wagner: You seem to be moving in a new direction with all this Wagner and Mahler… Yes – thank goodness I had a lot of superb…
Read MoreStaff picks: 2010-2011 concerts
Thu 7 Oct 2010
In what’s now become an annual feature we asked office staff here at the OAE which concerts in the upcoming season they are particularly looking forward to – and here’s what they said. Oh, and you can hear more of these from the horses mouths (so to speak) in our new Podcast. “I’m very excited…
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