Britten Sinfonia

Summer Festivals well under way

With the 2009-10 season successfully completed our attention is turned to Festivals over the summer months. So far this year Britten Sinfonia has performed at Brighton, Aldeburgh and City of London Festivals at sell out performances. The Brighton Festival performance was an eventful start for Britten Sinfonia’s 2010 summer festival performances which had cancellations, calamities and forgotten suitcases but was still a great concert, you can read all the detail in a blog entry from May. You can read reviews of both the Aldeburgh and City of London Festivals concerts here.

Still to come this summer Britten Sinfonia are performing at the world famous BBC Proms and Glyndebourne Festivals. Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Britten Sinfonia and I Fagiolini in a performance of Monteverdi and Gesualdo madrigals alongside new works inspired by the madrigals at Cadogan Hall on 21 August, 3pm as part of the Proms Saturday Matinee series. Tickets are selling fast but on the day tickets will be available for £5 in the side gallery as is tradition for the Proms.

In another collaboration Britten Sinfonia will work with the Jerwood Chorus Development scheme to present a series of performances of Stravinsky’s chamber operas Renard and Mavra. It is free to attend the events on 24, 26 and 27 August but booking is recommended and are only available to ticket holders for performances on that day.

You can also see which festival performances the Britten Sinfonia administration staff will be heading to in a blog entry from June.

Calendar

May 2012

Next Production

Brighton Festival - King Priam

Brighton
27 May 2012

‘I have to sing songs for those who can’t sing for themselves. Those songs come from the torments and horrors that have happened. I can’t lose faith in humanity.’ Sir Michael Tippett

Britten Sinfonia at Lunch 4

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
01 May 2012 1:00pm

Renowned tenor, Mark Padmore joins Britten Sinfonia for the final concert in the 2011-12 At Lunch series. At the centre of this programme is a work by British composer, Jonathan Dove, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall with support from the Tenner for a Tenor campaign.