The 50th Kuhmo Chamber Music on July 14−27, 2019

Kuhmo in Eastern Finland is host to a chamber music festival attracting thousands of music lovers. In that fortnight, this town of 8,300 inhabitants echoes to the sound of music against a backcloth of a lake that almost laps the walls of the concert halls in the clear, unbelievable northern light. The concerts are held at the Kuhmo Arts Centre, in the Lentua Hall renowned for its excellent acoustics, in Kuhmo's beautiful wooden Church, and in the new Tuupala Primary School. The concert venues are all within walking distance of one another, and bicycles are a popular means of getting about, for artists and audiences alike. Music is everywhere, there are concerts from morning to late at night, and people just live for the music. In the evenings, gathered round an open fire in the yard of the festival restaurant, musicians and festival-goers get together and strike up friendships. In 50 years, Kuhmo Chamber Music has grown to become one of the world's foremost music festivals. As early as 1989, the prestigious American journal Connoisseur was already calling it "possibly the best anywhere". In summer 2014 the British Financial Times described it as "a remarkable event, where unfettered creative idealism reigns. The Austrian music magazine Festspiele has rated Kuhmo among the world's leading festivals in 2008−2015.

Mozart’s most magical comedy returns to Glyndebourne for the first time in over a decade in a brand-new production by Barbe & Doucet.

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts an exciting young cast including Sofia Fomina and Björn Bürger. Kamilla Dunstan covers 2nd Lady The Cover Show - 29TH JULY, 2019

As part of the Bracknell Forest Arts Festival, an Evening of Popular Classics with the Westminster Chamber Orchestra

An Evening of Popular Classics with the Westminster Chamber Orchestra Favourite classics by Smetana, Beethoven (Emperor Concerto), Grieg and Tchaikovsky, with opera arias by Verdi, Bizet and Wagner. Soloists are Russian pianist Mikhail Shilyaev and baritone Thomas Humphreys.

A brand new production directed by John Wilkie and conducted by John Andrews. Starring Clare Presland as Countess Susanna, Richard Burkhard as Count Gil and John Savournin as Sante

How well do you know your husband? How well do you know your wife? Newly-weds Gil and Susanna learn a little more about each other in Wolf-Ferrari’s delicious 1909 farce of marital mistrust and modern manners. Mozartian orchestral writing, a Chopinesque piano solo and an aria perfumed with the exotic fragrance of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune contrast with the turbulent Romanticism of Iolanta, Tchaikovsky’s final opera. A dark and beautiful fairy tale of isolation and enchantment, its blind heroine is redeemed through the love of the only man to tell her the truth. A romance as profound as Wolf-Ferrari’s comedy is light, Iolanta forms the second half of a double bill on the theme of secrets and lies.

As part of the 34th Season of the Mazaugues Festival, a piano recital of Schumann, Brahms and Schubert

L’Inganno Felice (The Fortunate Deception), a romantic melodrama with buffo elements. Duke Betrando’s wife Isabella is lost at sea, her boat coming ashore near a mining camp. A decade later the Duke and his entourage arrive and the predictable happens.

Composer: Gioachino Rossini Librettist: Giuseppe Maria Foppa Director: Mark Burns Conductor: Oliver Gooch Orchestra: Orpheus Sinfonia Isabella: Elizabeth Karani Bertrando: Adam Temple-Smith Tarabotto: Thomas Humphreys Batone: Jan Capinski Ormondo: Timothy Dickinson Sung in English