Béatrice Et Bénédict
Glyndebourne’s season ends with two productions marking this year’s Shakespeare anniversary. The first is Berlioz’s gently lyrical take on Much Ado About Nothing. Laurent Pelly directs this Glyndebourne premiere, and Stéphanie d’Oustrac and Paul Appleby lead the cast.
Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, Sat to 27 Aug
War Passion
Gloucester’s Three Choirs festival moves into the Cotswolds for the first of the week’s premieres. Philip Lancaster’s work for chamber choir and ensemble intersperses the narrative of The Passion story with settings of words by first world war poets. Here, it’s paired with Herbert Howells’s Requiem.
Cirencester Parish Church, Sun
Of Land, Sea And Sky
A week before his 80th birthday, Anthony Payne’s latest piece gets its premiere from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Davis. Payne’s tone poem is the centrepiece of a programme that includes Bruch, Tchaikovsky and Vaughan Williams.
Kommilitonen!
Welsh Youth National Opera pays tribute to Peter Maxwell Davies, who died in March, with a new promenade production of his final full-length stage work, a celebration of student protest.
Memo Arts Centre, Barry, Wed to 30 Jul
Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret
Alongside the Australian Chamber Orchestra and chanteuse Meow Meow, Humphries curates and presents an evening of 1920s German cabaret, a fascinating mix of numbers by Eisler and Weill and music by the less familiar likes of Ježek and Spoliansky.
