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The Ivors Academy has announced Jonathan Dove's opera Itch has been nominated in the Best Stage Work category for the 2024 Classical Ivors Awards. Adapted from Simon Mayo’s best-selling novels, Itch and Itch Rocks, this is an element-hunting thriller spliced with brilliant operatic set pieces, big emotions, and a soundworld that speaks of dangerous treasures. With a libretto by Alastair Middleton, the opera was commissioned by James Clutton for Opera Holland Park with support from the Canadian Opera Company. The ceremony will take place on Tuesday 12 November at BFI Southbank in London, where 11 Ivor Novello Awards will be presented to eight category winners and three Gift of the Academy award winners. Details about all nominees across the categories can be viewed on The Ivors Academy website.   The Monster in the Maze’ receives its Sheffield premiere on the iconic Crucible stage with 4 performances on 1 & 2 November 2024.
This new production will showcase people of all ages coming together from across the city to perform alongside our professional resident artists and guests, highlighting the best of music-making in Sheffield. Music Director: John Lyon Director: Rosie Kat Featuring Ensemble 360, Consone Quartet, Bridge Ensemble, Sheffield Music Hub Senior Strings, Sheffield Youth Choirs Featuring Junior Voices, Youth Voices & Concordia and Singers From Sheffield. Tickets are available from the Sheffield Theatres website.
 London Schools Symphony Orchestra will perform Jonathan Dove’s Stargazer in three concerts on tour in Belgium in August and again at the Barbican Centre in September. Peter Moore will be the trombone soloist and the orchestra will be conducted by Timothy Redmond.
The performances are scheduled as follows: Thursday 1 August 2024 Collégiale, Nivelles, Belgium Friday 2 August 2024 Collégiale, Dinant, Belgium Saturday 3 August 2024 Eglise St Loup, Namur, Belgium Monday 16 September 2024 Barbican Centre, London, UK Image © Kaupo Kikkas  Glyndebourne has announced its 2025 festival, alongside a new community opera by Jonathan Dove and Angel Angelis. Uprising looks at the climate emergency through the eyes of those whom it will affect the most. Taking place on the main stage, the opera will feature more than 100 local amateur performers, including around 80 young people aged 14-19, being recruited from across Sussex this summer. A mother, a daughter and a time of turmoil, we discover how the bonds of family love survive when the planet faces a climate disaster. The community participants appear alongside six professional singers and musicians from the Glyndebourne Sinfonia in a production directed by Sinead O’Neill and conducted by Andrew Gourlay.
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra will then stage the Scottish premiere in Edinburgh and Glasgow on 28 and 29 March 2025. |
