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We weren't planning to spill the beans about this project so soon, but it has just been shortlisted for an exciting development prize, ...

It's been a hectic few weeks and a bout of tonsillitis didn't help. So from the tranquility of a plane-less Monday morning, in compa...

Toby Spence sings Florestan's aria, together with pianist David Owen Norris but somewhere else Yesterday it was a pleasure and pri...

On Tuesday 26 May 6pm, I'm "Dimblebying" for an online discussion about Beethoven , jointly hosted by the Royal Philharmonic S...

On Friday the Garsington Opera Youth Companies are giving the world premiere of The Happy Princess, a new opera written especially for them ...

The cat is out of the bag! I'm writing a new youth opera for Garsington 2019 with the composer Paul Fincham and the company is now ann...

Lauren Zolezzi as Nuria, Grant Doyle as Enric Photo: Julian Guidera I've been twice to see The Skating Rink at Garsington, the n...

Pop over to the BBC Arts website and experience the story behind Silver Birch , the opera by Roxanna Panufnik and muggins for Garsington Ope...

Curtain calls...in front, Roxanna (right) and me, with Jay Wheeler in the middle I've been away since just after the last night of ...

And here she is: our SILVER BIRCH composer, the fabulous Roxanna Panufnik. You've heard a lot from me already about the words and the...

Sam Furness as Jack, in Iraq shirt; Bradley Travis as Siegfried in WWI uniform We had the dress rehearsal yesterday. Today everybody ge...

Here's Garsington's introduction to Silver Birch, with director Karen Gillingham, conductor Douglas Boyd and choreographer Natasha ...

Baritone Bradley Travis in rehearsal as Siegfried Sassoon What are the chances of this? You turn up to an adult community chorus works...

SILVER BIRCH IS SOLD OUT! The first night is two weeks from today, up at Garsington Opera, Wormsley, near High Wycombe. Keep trying for ret...