WORLD PREMIERE! SPRING 2025 BERGEN NATIONAL OPERA PROUDLY PRESENTS A LOVE STORY BY JON FOSSE AND BENT SØRENSEN.

Two of contemporary Nordic culture’s greatest talents meet for an internationally significant world premiere.

WORLD PREMIERE! SPRING 2025 BERGEN NATIONAL OPERA PROUDLY PRESENTS A LOVE STORY BY JON FOSSE AND BENT SØRENSEN.

Two of contemporary Nordic culture’s greatest talents meet for an internationally significant world premiere.

WORLD PREMIERE! SPRING 2025 BERGEN NATIONAL OPERA PROUDLY PRESENTS A LOVE STORY BY JON FOSSE AND BENT SØRENSEN.

Two of contemporary Nordic culture’s greatest talents meet for an internationally significant world premiere.

Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts
Langley Park School for Boys, South Eden Park Road, Beckenham , BR3 3BP

Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished)

Strauss Four Last Songs
    Soloist Rebecca Hardwick

Mahler Symphony No. 4

https://www.bromleysymphony.org/event/saturday-15th-march-2025-at-1930/

St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill

The Camden Choir, conducted by Iestyn Evans

The Hampstead Collective in Hampstead Parish Church

Monday 3 March 2025

Rebecca Hardwick (soprano)

Malachy Frame (baritone)

The Players of the Hampstead Collective

https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/concerts/harmonische-raffinesse

https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com/concerts

Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony and Poulenc at King’s | Cambridge University Orchestra, Symphony Chorus and Chamber Choir

When: January 25, 2025 8:00 pm
Where: King’s College

JUDITH WEIR Moon and Star
POULENC Stabat Mater
SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No.3 “Organ Symphony”

SIAN EDWARDS Conductor
REBECCA HARDWICK Soprano
HARRISON COLE Organ

Cambridge University Orchestra, Symphony Chorus, and Chamber Choir join forces for this spectacular concert, featuring Judith Weir’s Moon and Star, Poulenc Stabat Mater, and Saint-Saëns’s epic Organ Symphony, conducted by Sian Edwards. Set in the majestic surroundings of King’s College Chapel, this is not one to be missed.

Tickets: 

£40, £35, £22 | Concessions: £30, £32, £16 | Students and under-18s: £5 (available on the door)

Tickets available via Saffron Hall Box Office. Priority Booking will open from 10.30am on Monday 9 December. General sale will be from 10.30am on Thursday 12 December.

Saturday 11 January 2025 19:00 20:30

St Peter's Church, Belsize Park NW3 4HJ

Rebecca Hardwick (soprano), Christine Buras (soprano), Malachy Frame (director), the Players of the Hampstead Collective

Lunchtime recital in Worcester Cathedral

Thursday 9th January 12.15pm

Rebecca Hardwick - Soprano

Nicholas Freestone - Piano

Strauss - Vier Letze Lieder and 4 Lieder, op.27

Rebecca is appearing as a guest with the Edvard Grieg Kor.

"Time" is the overarching theme in this concert of a cappella choral music from the 20th century.
The music in this concert covers a wide range; from songs by four English composers, composed for personal or public events, including the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, via early, tonally-exploring music by Webern and later compositions by Schönberg (celebrating 150 years this year). The concert ends with two works from the early 1980s; Alfred Schnittke's beautiful and meditative Russian Orthodox Sacred Hymns, and György Ligeti's Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin, a fantastic tour de force for 16 voiced a capella choirs.
The program is a celebration of the extraordinary compositional development that took place in choral music in the 20th century. Traditional choral sounds were combined with modern, innovative compositional techniques, thereby expanding the technical and expressive possibilities in music for a cappella choirs.
Edvard Grieg Kor, Bergen's professional choir, is excited to make its Oslo debut under the direction of its renowned chief conductor Edward Gardner.

"Time" is a theme that runs through this program of a cappella choral works from the 20th century. Ranging from music by four English composers marking personal and public events, including the coronation of Queen Elisabeth II, through early tonality-stretching Webern and gritty late Schoenberg (whose 150th birth anniversary falls this year), to works from the early 1980s, with Alfred Schnittke's beautiful and meditative Russian Orthodox Sacred Hymns and György Ligeti's Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin, a fantastical tour de force for 16 part choir. This program celebrates the extraordinary development of choral music in the 20th century by contrasting traditional choral sounds with modern, innovative writing that truly extended the technical and expressive possibilities of a cappella choral music.

Edvard Grieg Kor, Bergen's professional choir, is excited to make its Oslo debut under the direction of its renowned chief conductor Edward Gardner.

Rebecca is appearing as a guest with the Edvard Grieg Kor.

"Time" is the overarching theme in this concert of a cappella choral music from the 20th century.
The music in this concert covers a wide range; from songs by four English composers, composed for personal or public events, including the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, via early, tonally-exploring music by Webern and later compositions by Schönberg (celebrating 150 years this year). The concert ends with two works from the early 1980s; Alfred Schnittke's beautiful and meditative Russian Orthodox Sacred Hymns, and György Ligeti's Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin, a fantastic tour de force for 16 voiced a capella choirs.
The program is a celebration of the extraordinary compositional development that took place in choral music in the 20th century. Traditional choral sounds were combined with modern, innovative compositional techniques, thereby expanding the technical and expressive possibilities in music for a cappella choirs.
Edvard Grieg Kor, Bergen's professional choir, is excited to make its Oslo debut under the direction of its renowned chief conductor Edward Gardner.

"Time" is a theme that runs through this program of a cappella choral works from the 20th century. Ranging from music by four English composers marking personal and public events, including the coronation of Queen Elisabeth II, through early tonality-stretching Webern and gritty late Schoenberg (whose 150th birth anniversary falls this year), to works from the early 1980s, with Alfred Schnittke's beautiful and meditative Russian Orthodox Sacred Hymns and György Ligeti's Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin, a fantastical tour de force for 16 part choir. This program celebrates the extraordinary development of choral music in the 20th century by contrasting traditional choral sounds with modern, innovative writing that truly extended the technical and expressive possibilities of a cappella choral music.

Edvard Grieg Kor, Bergen's professional choir, is excited to make its Oslo debut under the direction of its renowned chief conductor Edward Gardner.

THREE SPIRES SINGERS and ORCHESTRA

Saturday 7 December 2024 7:30pm, Truro Cathedral

G.F. Handel: Messiah

Conductor: James Anderson-Besant

Rebecca is playing the role of Dido for the first time with the Downland Chorale.

St John the Evangelist Church
Canon’s Hill, Old Coulsdon, Surrey CR5 1HA

Conducted by Thomas Chapman

Rebecca Hardwick soprano
Felix Kemp baritone

Orchestra De Cymru
Geraint Bowen

Hereford Choral Society

Hereford Cathedral

7:30pm
Saturday 16th November

From the very opening fanfare that demands we ‘Behold the sea itself’ Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony dramatically defines the oceans and the ships that have historically sailed upon them. The fanfare resolves into a completely unmistakable image of rolling waves and ships, ‘their white sails, bellying in the wind’. The steamers ‘steaming in or out of port’ excitedly herald what was, in Walt Whitman’s poem of 1855 (taken from Leaves of Life), a new and busy form of transport.

This 70 min journey from the ‘beach at night’ to the ‘gardens of Asia’ will leave you licking you lips (and maybe even tasting the salt!) whilst experiencing every peak and trough of life at sea, in one of the most dramatic works in the choral canon.

The concert will begin with Francis Poulenc’s Gloria: He has been described variously as ‘a prankster with a witty sense of humour, fun loving, gregarious and a bit of a rascal’, and it’s not hard to realise why, as Poulenc varies the mood of the Gloria from jazz to musical theatre and vaudeville. Poulenc even claimed that the Laudamus te was inspired by the sight of Benedictine monks playing football! Please do come to hear it and see if you agree.

Verdi Requiem - "Come and sing"

Hampstead Parish Church, London, NW3 6UU

Sat 9th November

DIE TOTE STADT
(The Dead City)
Opera in three acts

Norwegian premiere

Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Music
Paul Schott / Libretto, based on Georges Rodenbach’s novel Bruges-la-Morte

CREATIVE TEAM
Eivind Gullberg Jensen / Conductor
Calixto Bieito / Stage director
Anna-Sofia Kirsch / Set designer
Paula Klein / Costume designer
Michael Bauer / Lighting designer
Håkon Matti Skrede / Chorus master

CAST
Vincent Wolfsteiner / Paul
Ausrine Stundyte / Marie and Marietta
Audun Iversen / Frank and Fritz
Tone Kummervold / Brigitta
Dumitru Mitu / Victorin
Sarah Gilford / Juliette
Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir / Lucienne
Álvaro Zambrano / Gaston
NN / Count Albert

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edvard Grieg Choir, Edvard Grieg Boys’ Choir and Edvard Grieg Girls’ Choir

Sung in German, surtitles in Norwegian and English
Duration: approx. 2 hours and 45 minutes including 30 minutes interval
2, 4, 6 and 8 November 2024
Grieghallen

A new production by Bergen National Opera

Presented by Bergen National Opera in collaboration with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edvard Grieg Choirs

DIE TOTE STADT
(The Dead City)
Opera in three acts

Norwegian premiere

Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Music
Paul Schott / Libretto, based on Georges Rodenbach’s novel Bruges-la-Morte

CREATIVE TEAM
Eivind Gullberg Jensen / Conductor
Calixto Bieito / Stage director
Anna-Sofia Kirsch / Set designer
Paula Klein / Costume designer
Michael Bauer / Lighting designer
Håkon Matti Skrede / Chorus master

CAST
Vincent Wolfsteiner / Paul
Ausrine Stundyte / Marie and Marietta
Audun Iversen / Frank and Fritz
Tone Kummervold / Brigitta
Dumitru Mitu / Victorin
Sarah Gilford / Juliette
Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir / Lucienne
Álvaro Zambrano / Gaston
NN / Count Albert

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edvard Grieg Choir, Edvard Grieg Boys’ Choir and Edvard Grieg Girls’ Choir

Sung in German, surtitles in Norwegian and English
Duration: approx. 2 hours and 45 minutes including 30 minutes interval
2, 4, 6 and 8 November 2024
Grieghallen

A new production by Bergen National Opera

Presented by Bergen National Opera in collaboration with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edvard Grieg Choirs

DIE TOTE STADT
(The Dead City)
Opera in three acts

Norwegian premiere

Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Music
Paul Schott / Libretto, based on Georges Rodenbach’s novel Bruges-la-Morte

CREATIVE TEAM
Eivind Gullberg Jensen / Conductor
Calixto Bieito / Stage director
Anna-Sofia Kirsch / Set designer
Paula Klein / Costume designer
Michael Bauer / Lighting designer
Håkon Matti Skrede / Chorus master

CAST
Vincent Wolfsteiner / Paul
Ausrine Stundyte / Marie and Marietta
Audun Iversen / Frank and Fritz
Tone Kummervold / Brigitta
Dumitru Mitu / Victorin
Sarah Gilford / Juliette
Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir / Lucienne
Álvaro Zambrano / Gaston
NN / Count Albert

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edvard Grieg Choir, Edvard Grieg Boys’ Choir and Edvard Grieg Girls’ Choir

Sung in German, surtitles in Norwegian and English
Duration: approx. 2 hours and 45 minutes including 30 minutes interval
2, 4, 6 and 8 November 2024
Grieghallen

A new production by Bergen National Opera

Presented by Bergen National Opera in collaboration with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edvard Grieg Choirs

DIE TOTE STADT
(The Dead City)
Opera in three acts

Norwegian premiere

Erich Wolfgang Korngold / Music
Paul Schott / Libretto, based on Georges Rodenbach’s novel Bruges-la-Morte

CREATIVE TEAM
Eivind Gullberg Jensen / Conductor
Calixto Bieito / Stage director
Anna-Sofia Kirsch / Set designer
Paula Klein / Costume designer
Michael Bauer / Lighting designer
Håkon Matti Skrede / Chorus master

CAST
Vincent Wolfsteiner / Paul
Ausrine Stundyte / Marie and Marietta
Audun Iversen / Frank and Fritz
Tone Kummervold / Brigitta
Dumitru Mitu / Victorin
Sarah Gilford / Juliette
Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir / Lucienne
Álvaro Zambrano / Gaston
NN / Count Albert

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edvard Grieg Choir, Edvard Grieg Boys’ Choir and Edvard Grieg Girls’ Choir

Sung in German, surtitles in Norwegian and English
Duration: approx. 2 hours and 45 minutes including 30 minutes interval
2, 4, 6 and 8 November 2024
Grieghallen

A new production by Bergen National Opera

Presented by Bergen National Opera in collaboration with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edvard Grieg Choirs

An evening concert given by the acclaimed Colla Voce Singers, featuring Brahms's 'A German Requiem’ - the "London Version" of the work: Brahms’s own arrangement of the Requiem, sung in English with piano duet accompaniment, as first performed in the UK on 10 July 1871.

On Saturday 19 October 2024, in St George's Cathedral, Southwark - within walking distance of London's Waterloo. Nearest station Lambeth North on the Bakerloo Line. Find the cathedral - visit this page.

• Colla Voce Singers

• Conductor - Aidan Coburn

• Piano - Nathan Mercieca and Joshua Ryan

• Soprano - Rebecca Hardwick

• Baritone - Malachy Frame

Tickets £12 and £10, concert will last around 1 hour.

Learn more about Colla Voce Singers at www.collavocesingers.com

‘Te Deum’ for choir and orchestra – Outrcry Ensemble, English Voices and Pegasus @ St John's Smith Square

The Outcry Ensemble, English Voices and Pegasus choir perform Stephen Dodgson’s full-scale Te Deum alongside Walton’s viola concerto and Belshazzar’s Feast in a truly memorable and epic concert at St John’s Smith Square. Directed by James Henshaw and comprised of young, exceptionally skilled professionals poised to become the next generation of global orchestral leaders, The Outcry Ensemble brings together vibrant energy and captivating performances. Their repertoire programming strikes a balance between cherished classical works and new compositions commissioned from emerging composers.

Programme

Walton – Viola Concerto

Dodgson – Te Deum

Walton – Belshazzar’s Feast

Soprano Soloist - Rebecca Hardwick

Soprano - Rebecca Hardwick

Tenor - George Chambers

The Hampstead Collective

Hampstead Parish Church

https://www.thehampsteadcollective.com

19h CONCERT DE CLÔTURE

REQUIEM de VERDI

Rebecca Hardwick soprano

Charlotte King alto

Aidan Coburn ténor

Peter Lidbetter bass

Choeur & orchestre de Musique Cordiale Direction Graham Ross

Église Saint Léger, SEILLANS

https://www.musique-cordiale.com/

19h CONCERT DE CLÔTURE

REQUIEM de VERDI

Rebecca Hardwick soprano

Charlotte King alto

Aidan Coburn ténor

Peter Lidbetter bass

Choeur & orchestre de Musique Cordiale Direction Graham Ross

Église Saint Léger, SEILLANS

https://www.musique-cordiale.com/

"CLASSIQUES ROMANTIQUES" au coucher du soleil: Siegfried Idyll, Strauss Four Last Songs, Tristan de Wagner & Schubert concert avec orchestre complet en plein air

Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll

Schubert: Symphony No. 5 Graham Ross, direction L'orchestre du Festival Musique Cordiale

Wagner: Prélude à Tristan et Isolde

Strauss: Four Last Songs Rebecca Hardwick, soprano

Wagner: Liebestod de Tristan and Isolde ("Liebestod" - Allemand pour "amour mort", signifiant la consommation par les deux amants de leur amour dans la mort - est le titre de la musique dramatique finale de l'opéra Tristan et Isolde de Richard Wagner de 1859)

Aidan Coburn, direction L'orchestre du Festival Musique Cordiale

21h SOIRÉE OPERA VERDI

LA TRAVIATA

Rebecca Hardwick (Violetta)

Aidan Coburn (Alfredo)

Jessica Hopkins (Flora & Annina)

Peter Lidbetter (Germont)

Will Harris (Gaston)

Rebecca Taylor (piano)

https://www.musique-cordiale.com/

21h SOIRÉE OPERA VERDI

LA TRAVIATA

Rebecca Hardwick (Violetta)

Aidan Coburn (Alfredo)

Jessica Hopkins (Flora & Annina)

Peter Lidbetter (Germont)

Will Harris (Gaston)

Rebecca Taylor (piano)

https://www.musique-cordiale.com/

Samuel Hudson – conductor
Rebecca Hardwick – soprano
Marta Fontanals-Simmons – mezzo-soprano
Nicky Spence – tenor
Themba Mvula – baritone

Three Choirs Festival Chorus
Worcester Cathedral Choristers

Worcester Cathedral

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MASON The Imagined Forest

HOLST Hymn of Jesus

— Interval —

STANFORD Stabat Mater