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LIVE EVENTS 2006

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DECEMBER 2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Monteverdi – I'incoronazione di Poppea (Royal College of Music)

CONCERTS

Bartok, Ben-Shabetai etc (Voland Pianos and Percussion Quartet)

Christmas with Bach (I Fagiolini / The Academy of Ancient Music)

Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns & Rachmaninov (Pappano, Trpčeski and LSO)

Haydn, David Matthews & Golijov (PLG Monday Platform)

Berlioz L'enfance du Christ (Spitalfields Festival)

Handel & Rameau (European Union Baroque Orchestra at Spitalfields Festival)

Haydn, Schumann and Berg (Julianne Banse and Aleksander Madzar)

Haydn, Widmann, Mendelssohn and Bach (Minguet Quartet)

Elgar, Delius etc (Nash Ensemble)

Henze, Stockhausen & Kagel (London Sinfonietta)

 

NOVEMBER 2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

 

Monteverdi – I'incoronazione di Poppea (Royal College of Music)

Opera North at Sadlers Wells

Rameau Dardanus (Royal Academy of Music)

Woodhouse, Kay & Dimitriou (Bonnie Bird Theatre, Laban)

Pacini – Alessandro nell'Indie (ENO & Henry Wood Hall)

The Gondoliers
English National Opera

Handel - Orlando (Independent Opera)

Verdi – Simon Boccanegra& Lehar – The Merry Widow (OperaUK)

CONCERTS

Fedele & Rossini

Pianola Society Concert

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos 30-32 (Andras Schiff)

Lachenmann (Mouvement and Concertini)

Schubert Quartet in G, D887 (Tokyo String Quartet at Wigmore Hall & on Radio 3)

Gerhard/Glass/Abril/Loevendie/De Falla/Halffter (Conjunto Ibérico)

Handel - Theodora (Le Concert d'Astree/Haim)

Jonathan Lilley (organ recital at Handel's “Other” Church)

String Quartets and Harp Trios (Wihan Quartet & Ruffer/Webb/Silverthorne)

The RVW Trust at 50 (Robert Murray & Dante String Quartet etc)

Naresh Sohal at British Museum


Kurtag 80th Birthday (duets on pianino)

 

OCTOBER 2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Janacek - Jenufa (ENO)
Dove Tobias and the Angel (Young Vic)
Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk (Royal Opera, Covent Garden)
Ustvolskaya films

CONCERTS

Schoenberg & Schubert (Trio Jean Paul)
Schubert Schwanengesang (Robert Holl)
Schumann & Schubert (Angelika Kirchschlager)
Kurtag 80th Birthday (Keller Quartet)
Endymion at Blackheath (Martinu, Poulenc & Weber etc)
Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartets 8 & 9
Aviv Quartet (Mendelssohn, Berg & Beethoven)
IXION at the Warehouse (BMIC Cutting Edge series)
Parkinson/Saunders Duo and Apartment House (BMIC Cutting Edge series)
Dietrich Henschel with Fritz Schwinghammer
Song at Wigmore Hall (Barbara Frittoli, Roderick Williams & Cora Burggraaf)
Holst, Mendelssohn & Chausson (Prussia Cove concert)

SEPTEMBER 2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Mozart La Finta Giardiniera (Covent Garden)
McRae The Assassin Tree
Savale/Khan Gaddafi: A Living Myth

CONCERTS

Elisabeth Lutyens @ 100
Palestrina & Will Todd (Radical Masses)
Dormel, Couperin & Marais (Passacaglia with Dan Laurin)
Florestan Trio (Haydn, Dvorák & Schubert)
Myra Hess Celebration (nine pianists sharing Schumann's Carnaval)
Rzewski's Piano Trio
Stravinsky/Dushkin; Ades/Marwood
Mozart & Benjamin Wallfisch (Prom PSM4)
Ives Chopin Strauss (Prom 61)

AUGUST 2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Prom Matinee - theatre and film (Shostakovich)
Michael McClure The Beard

CONCERTS

Lontano at 30
Ives, Chopin and R. Strauss (Prom 61)
Gruber Frankenstein!! (Prom 52)
Shostakovich, Schnittke & Tchaikovsky (Prom 47)
Stravinsky, Lutoslawski, Wagner and Mozart (Prom 45)
Sibelius, James Dillon, Stravinsky (Prom 36)

Misra brothers and Uday Bhawalkar (Bhavan centre)

JULY

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Maryinsky Ballet at ENO (The Golden Age and a triple bill)
Verdi - Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park)
Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades (Opera Holland Park)
Dove and KingHear Our Voice
Oh What a Lovely War and The Misanthrope (Guildhall School Drama Department)
Lehar The Merry Widow (Opera Holland Park)
Mozart Cosi fan tutte (Opera Holland Park)
Ravel L'enfant & L'heure Espagnol (Royal College of Music)
Mozart – Zaide (Barbican Hall)

CONCERTS

Prokofiev, Britten, Elgar/Payne, Bach/Davis, Shostakovich (Prom 26)
PROMS Duet Recital (Kate Royal & Christine Rice)
Prom No 8 (Prokofiev and Shostakovich)
Joan Rodgers - Pushkin Songs
Okeanos at City of London Festival
Trilok Gurtu (Rhythm Sticks at QEH)

JUNE 2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Laban Degree Show
Purcell King Arthur (ENO)
David Bruce Push! (Tête à Tête at Riverside Studios)
The Beggar's Opera and The Threepenny Opera (Trinity College of Music)
Giordano Fedora (Opera Holland Park)
Puccini – Manon Lescaut (Opera Holland Park)
Judith Weir Blond Eckbert (revised version)
Adams Nixon in China
Mozart – The Magic Flute (Opera A La Carte)
Puccini Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi
Minotaur Music Theatre (Don Giovanni; Box & Cox; Dido & Aeneas)
Mozart Ascanio in Alba
Handel - Ariodante (ENO)

CONCERTS

Artur Pizarro piano & Tokyo String Quartet (City of London Festival)
Okeanos Plus at Wilton’s Music Hall
Aleksandar Madzar (piano recital at Blackheath)

 

 

MAY 2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

invisible dances (Laban)

Janacek – The Makropulos Case (ENO)

Rossini – The Barber of Seville (Opera East)

Opera Fuoco – “From Semele to Ino

Handel - Rinaldo (Royal Academy of Music)

Transitions Dance Company 2006

Mozart, Falla & Puccini (Opera UK)

CONCERTS

Schwartz Concerto for Solo Conductor

Vivaldi – La Senna Festeggiante

Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle - Andras Schiff

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Rachel Podger

Nicholas Daniel/Julius Drake Duo

Wihan Quartet (Haydn Smetana Schubert)

Sokolov (Barbican Hall)

Madzar & Marwood (Wigmore Hall)

Rzewski The Road (Trinity College of Music, London)

Vaughan Williams & Francis Pott (Vasari Singers)

Lisa Milne & Malcolm Martineau

L'Invitation au Voyage (Duparc in context)

Lars Vogt ( Mozart, Schubert, Komarova)

LA STAGIONE FRANKFURT

Veronique Gens at Wigmore Hall

 

 

APRIL 2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Troika Ranch: 16 [R]evolutions (Laban)

Monteverdi Orfeo (ENO)

Mozart Il re pastore (THE ROYAL OPERA IN THE LINBURY)

Offenbach La Belle Hélène ENO 3 April 2006

CONCERTS

Stockhausen Mixtur

Sir Charles Mackerras (80th Birthday Concert)

Christopher Maltman & Graham Johnson (songs to poems by Goethe)

Schubert & Schumann (Jonathan Lemalu/Roger Vignoles)

Gervase De Peyer at 80

Ysaÿe Quartet & Paul Meyer

Rossini – Stabat Mater

Susan Bullock - soprano / Louis Lortie – piano

Richard Strauss, JC Bach and JS Bach (LPO Sitkovetski)

ILAM's Ginastera Festival 2006

Graziella Sciutti Celebration Concert (Teresa Berganza etc)

London String Quartet Week (Royal Academy of Music 4th-7th April)

Ustad Sultan Khan and international colleagues (USTAD VILAYAT KHAN MEMORIAL CONCERT)

Verdi - Attila (Chelsea Opera Group)

MARCH 2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Handel: Hercules on stage and on DVD

Judith Weir – A Night at the Chinese Opera

Verdi Falstaff (GSMD)

Berg Wozzeck (Royal Opera House, Harding/Warner)

Mozart – Apollo and Hyacinthus

Vaughan Williams – Sir John in Love

Lapsus Corpi at Laban

Puccini – La Bohème (Royal Albert Hall)

 

CONCERTS

Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms & Dvorák
Horne, Staud & Wood (Austrian Cultural Forum 50th Anniversary Concert)

Robin Blaze with The King's Consort

Eric Cutler & Bradley Moore

Judith Weir Portrait (Schubert Ensemble)

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 70th Birthday Concert

Fauré, Kosma & Harvey

Mahler and Schubert (Alice Coote & Julius Drake)

Tchaikovsky Rachmaninov Sibelius (Philharmonia/Saraste/Trpceski)

RoggFest (Lionel Rogg at Royal Academy of Music)

Wendy Dawn Thompson (Wigmore Hall)

Mahler 7 (Leipzig Gewandhaus/Chailly)

Daniel Becker (piano recital)

Clerks' Group Friends' Concert

Nina Stemme - soprano (Wigmore Hall recital)

Sir John Tusa 70th Birthday Concert (Wigmore Hall)

 

FEBRUARY 2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc



Mozart Le nozze di Figaro/David Syrus

Verdi Rigoletto (ENO)

GILBERT & SULLIVAN THE MIKADO

Handel Rodelinda

Osvaldo Golijov: La Pasíon Ségun San Marcos

CONCERTS

Kate Royal (Wigmore Hall recital and Mahler 4 CD)

Rebecca Bottone sings Handel

Gould Piano Trio (Wigmore Hall Coffee Concert)

Catherine the Great Orchestra

Music for the Virgin Mary (Concerto delle Donne)

Akiko Nakajima at Wigmore Hall

Elisabeth Leonskaja

Accordion Showcase (Royal Academy of Music)


JANUARY
2006

OPERAS & MUSIC THEATRE etc

Rossini Barber of Seville (Covent Garden)

Love's Labyrinth (Opera Restor'd)

Britten Billy Budd (ENO)

Signing Handel's Xerxes at ENO

Roger Scruton - Violet

Laban & Portugal Movimento5 (Portuguese contemporary dance at Laban)

CONCERTS

Juliane Banse / Wolfram Rieger recital

Golijov at the Barbican

Beaux Arts Trio 2006

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Jansons (Ein Heldenleben)

Mozart 250th Anniversary – (BBCSO, Hanover Band & Concerto Cristofori)

Graffin-Wallfisch-Menuhin Trio

Iñigo Aizpiolea and Iñaki Alberdi (Classical Accordion Duo)

Joyce DiDonato at Wigmore Hall

Shostakovich (LSO/Rostropovich/Vengerov);
Quartets 6, 13 & 3 (Aviv String Quartet)

Brahms – Die schone Magelone

Got Carter? (Elliott Carter in contexts)

Bartók String Quartet No 4 in contexts (Carter & Mūzikas)

PLG Young Artists 2006
Mark Dennis at PLGYA

Rosseter: Dowland: Campion (Gilchrist/Wadsworth)

 

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