Fidelio
Garsington Opera brings Peter Mumford’s concert staging of Beethoven’s opera to its purpose-built theatre in the Chilterns. Katherine Broderick is Leonore and Toby Spence is Florestan, Douglas Boyd conducts.
• Garsington Opera, Wormsley Place, Stokenchurch, 12, 14, 16 and 18 September, live performances only.
Christian Gerhaher
Singing Schubert and Berg, the German baritone launches the Wigmore’s autumn season, which promises 100 concerts over the next three months, all streamed online and with a socially distanced live audience when possible.
• Wigmore Hall, London, 13 September, live performance, live-streamed and available on demand.
A Feast in the Time of Plague 1
Simon Keenlyside, Claire Booth and Peter Hoare lead the cast for Grange Park Opera’s commission in the time of Covid-19, based upon Pushkin’s play, with a libretto by David Pountney and music by Alex Woolf.
• West Horsley Place, Surrey, 13 September, then online (£) from 24 September
Tallis 2020 – ORA singers
The ORA singers under musical director Suzi Digby mark 450 years since the composition of Tallis’s Spem in Alium with a live-streamed performance of the choral masterpiece at the Tate Modern. The concert also includes the world premiere of a contemporary response to Tallis’ work by Sir James MacMillan, and William Byrd’s Ave verum corpus paired with Roderick Williams’ Ave verum corpus re-imagined.
• Tate Modern London, 16 September, 8pm, live-streamed at youtube.com/tate and facebook.com/tategallery and then available on demand.
Philharmonia/Järvi
The third of the Philharmonia’s specially recorded digital concerts sees Paavo Järvi conduct Beethoven’s First Symphony, and Nicola Benedetti plays Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending.
• Online from 17 September
