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We’re delighted to be supporting Academy of Barmy Composers in their Sing Together project 🎶 Accompanied by #WNOorchestra, over 12,000 children from all across Wales took part to record this bilingual song of hope and friendship. #WNOchorus wanted to get in on the act…!

Portrait of French soprano opera singer Miss Agnès Borgo. Photographed by Nadar, 1905.

There's something rather beautiful about seeing Poulenc's birth records and knowing this where it all began.

Call for papers: Timbre and Colour in French music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 20-21 Feb 2025 RMAFrenchMusic bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/…

Calling All Composers in #Wales! 🎶 Don't miss the chance to submit your score for Composition: Wales by Sunday, October 20, 2024! Have your music performed and recorded by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and receive mentorship from world-class composers and conductors!

Excited for the upcoming symposium on Timbre and Colour in French Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with the added bonus of two concerts, including a UK premiere. Submit your proposals by 11.59pm (GMT) on Tuesday 19th November 2024.

Out now from Barbara Gentili, Italian #Opera Singing at the Time of Verismo connects discussions of vocality and operatic culture with broader aesthetic and cultural shifts in society. Find out more: buff.ly/4gR61uw #musictwitter

Someone else said: “Art Nouveau is when it looks made by elves. Art Deco is when it looks made by dwarves.” And after looking into it, I think they’re a genius and 100% correct.

It's less than two weeks until our inaugural online symposium with Dr. Jack Blaszkiewicz. Abstract available here: rmafrenchmusic.wordpress.com/events/ Join our mailing list for the link rmafrenchmusic.wordpress.com/membership/

🚨 At risk 🚨 Most won’t know about the work that Welsh National Opera does with #Refugees. This project #SanctuaryOfSong was run in collaboration with @CLEARSoton & University of Southampton. A community music project really impacting people’s lives. But for how much longer? #SaveWNO

📷 Janine Niépce. Place de l'Opéra Années 1950. Paris

Very excited to announce the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire French season 2024-5! Some concerts and other events already open for booking 🇫🇷 Royal Birmingham Conservatoire RMAFrenchMusic bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/…

Beyond the baton 🎵 As The Royal Opera stages a new production of Trouble in Tahiti / A Quiet Place, join us for a timely exploration of Leonard Bernstein's life and legacy with director Oliver Mears. 🎥 Stream live on the Royal Ballet and Opera YouTube channel from 7:45pm BST:

Pages like this don't help the reputation of opera, with suggested gifts for the 'opera obsessed' being black tie, 'opera coats', evening bags, long gloves and pashminas. Personally, I'm more likely to buy this. etsy.com/uk/gift-mode/p…

Omaggio a Giacomo Puccini: operatic stairs in Noto, Sicily.

For more information on Yvonne Loriod, join committee member Peter Asimov for his talk Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on 3rd December: 'Yvonne Loriod and the Ambiguity of Submission.' See tinyurl.com/yvonneloriod for more information.

Call for Papers for 'Musical Modernism and its Art Worlds.' Organised by Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca and IAM – Italian Institue for Applied Musicology. International Virtual Conference 6-8 June 2025 luigiboccherini.org/2024/09/22/mod…

'The Value of History in UK Higher Education and Society' - a new briefing from Royal Historical Society bit.ly/4fl6lQD Published today, the Society's briefing assesses the value of #history and the damage being done by cuts and closures to UK departments #twitterstorians

Very pleased to announce that we will be offering a PGR/ECR Research Grant as funding can be a huge barrier for carrying out research, especially as jobs are scarce and universities are cutting research budgets. Please share far and wide! RMA RMA Student Committee

So let me get this right: Cardiff Council can’t afford to keep St David's Hall operating, Welsh National Opera whose home is in Wales Millennium Centre is being dismantled & BBC Cardiff Singer of the World going under, but there’s money for a new building for digital content. Priorities??? #SaveWNO Delyth Jewell AS / MS