Llio Evans’s All-Time Favourites Playlist

Why not to get the cast of our Spring 2019 season throught their favourite music? We asked our cast for their all-time favourites playlists. Today’s tunes are selected by Llio Evans, who has sung in all three ETO mainstage shows this season: Idomeneo, Macbeth and Elizabeth I, and who stars in ETO’s children’s opera Waxwings. […]

Christopher Turner’s All-Time Favourites Playlist

Why not to get the cast of our Spring 2019 season throught their favourite music? We asked our cast for their all-time favourites playlists. This week we’re listening to music selected by Idomeneo himself: tenor Christopher Turner. 1. “Se di lauri il crine adorno” (Mitridate) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, sung by Bruce Ford Sadly, […]

Amanda Wagg’s All-Time Favourites Playlist

Why not to get the cast of our Spring 2019 season throught their favourite music? We asked our cast their all-time favourites playlists. This week we’re listening to Amanda Wagg’s playlist. Amanda is sings in ETO’s Education opera Paradise Planet and sings in the chorus for Macbeth, Idomeneo and Elizabeth I. 1. Songs of Jason […]

Paula Sides’s All-Time Favourites Playlist

Why not get to know the cast on our Spring 2019 season through their favourite music? We asked our cast for their all-time favourite playlists. This week we present Paula Sides’s favourite tracks. Paula is an American soprano who is singing the role of Elettra in ETO’s Spring ’19 production of Mozart’s Idomeneo. 1. Stayin’ […]

Alison Manifold’s All-Time Favourites Playlist

Why not get to know the cast on our Spring 2019 season through their favourite music? We asked our cast for their all-time favourite playlists. First up we have Alison Manifold’s favourite tracks. Alison is an Austrialian Soprano who sings in the ETO chorus for all three Spring ’19 shows: Macbeth, Idomeneo and Elizabeth I […]

Double Trouble: Five Facts about Henry Purcell and Giacomo Carissimi

Everything you need to know about Purcell and Carissimi.

Behind the Scenes at Dido & Aeneas Rehearsals

Director Seb Harcombe and Soprano Sky Ingram on their involvement in English Touring Opera’s upcoming production of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, their careers, and their advice for budding artists. What is your role in the company? Sky Ingram: My role as part of the tour is performing the role of Queen Dido. Seb Harcombe: I […]

Get A Good Grounding: The Importance of Ground Bass in Baroque Music

What is Ground Bass? The ‘Ground Bass’, a short, very harmonically-driven phrase that is repeated, sometimes strictly, and sometimes with variation, while a melody is built over the top, has most likely been around since the dawn of music itself. The earliest surviving examples date to the 13th Century, but it reached its heyday in […]

Get a Handle on Handel: Five Facts about George Frideric Handel

Five facts about George Frideric Handel, his music and legacy.

A Lasting Effect: What Should You Know About Carlo Gesualdo?

As a part of our Autumn 2018 touring season, we’ll be presenting the music of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa in our Triple Bill, under the title ‘I will not speak‘. Resident blogger, Alex Burns, introduces you to the man behind the music. 1. He was a murderer. Gesualdo found his wife of two years, […]