John Tomlinson

The Grange Festival Reveals 2025 Programme

For its first season under the leadership of new Chief Executive Tyler Stoops, The Grange Festival has announced the programme for summer 2025.

Glyndebourne Will Stage its First Ever Production of Wagner's PARSIFAL in 2025

Glyndebourne's first ever production of Wagner's epic final opera Parsifal will be staged at Glyndebourne Festival 2025. Featuring a cast of nearly 200 performers and orchestra, this production will be a landmark moment in the company's 90 year history. 

Stage One Announces National Placement Scheme Hosts For 2023-24

Stage One has announced that they are partnering with Bristol Old Vic, Northern Stage, Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal Plymouth to deliver their National Trainee Producer Placement Scheme for 2023.

KING LEAR Will Be Reimagined as a Music Drama Starring Sir John Tomlinson

Sir John Tomlinson, one of the UK's foremost opera singers, stars in The Shackled King, a new dramatic work by the British composer John Casken based on Shakespeare's King Lear. It receives its London première at Wigmore Hall on 26 January 2023. The Shackled King, a 50-minute drama for bass, mezzo-soprano and ensemble, also stars Rozanna Madylus as Lear's daughter Cordelia, her sisters, Goneril and Regan, and the Fool.

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Announces $3.6 Million For Transformation of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Commissioner Laurie Cumbo announced $3.6 million in new capital funding for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

Brett Dean's HAMLET Comes to the Warner in June

The 2021-22 season of The Met: Live in HD will close with Brett Dean's Hamlet on Saturday, June 4 at 12:55 pm in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre.

Cast Changes Announced for LE NOZZE DI FIGARO & HAMLET at The Met

Ying Fang will sing Susanna in the April performances of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro this season, replacing Aida Garifullina.

Royal Opera House Announces Spring Streams - COSI FAN TUTTE and PETER GRIMES

This Spring, enjoy two more productions from the Royal Opera House: Mozart's Così fan tutte, and Deborah Warner's new production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. Both titles, showcasing the world-class talent of The Royal Opera, will be available, on-demand, for 30 days.  

Northrop Presents Paul Taylor Dance Company Next Month

Now under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Novak the company continues to be one of  most famous and dynamic modern dance ensembles of our time. In this program, the Company premieres a new work by Peter Chu, a Northrop Centennial Commission, paired with two classic Taylor works, the sublime masterpiece, Airs, and Promethean Fire, set to three keyboard works by Bach as richly orchestrated by Stokowski

The Royal Opera House Announces Opera And Ballet Cultural Highlights For 2022

The Royal Opera House will continue its first full Season since 2019 with a selection of world class productions throughout 2022, showcasing the very best of opera and ballet.  In anticipation of the new year, here are a selection of upcoming world premieres and classic revivals from The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet.

Sheffield Theatres Announces New Appointments To Senior Leadership Team

Today Sheffield Theatres announces the appointment of Bookey Oshin, formally Finance and Operations Director, as Deputy Chief Executive, as well as the expansion of its senior management team.

The Metropolitan Opera's LIVE IN HD Series Will Return to Cinemas With Mussorgsky's BORIS GODUNOV & More

Fathom Events is partnering with the Metropolitan Opera to bring The Met: Live in HD, the Met's award-winning series of high-definition live cinema transmissions, to movie theaters nationwide for its 15th season.

Guest Blog: Opera Star Kim Begley Talks Joining Forces On 'King Lear'

The celebrated tenor Kim Begley made his Royal Opera House debut in 1983 and has since then established himself at the forefront of the repertoire, with credits ranging from Britten to Busoni, Wagner to Brett Dean's opera of Hamlet. In keeping wih Shakespeare, if not this time round with singing, Begley has joined a starry lineup of British opera world names to perform King Lear later this month at the Grange Festival for three performances - and we're talking the play in its full, unadultered majesty and not the opera, with Sit John Tomlinson as Lear, Thomas Allen as Gloucester, and Begley as the Fool, and many other notable names besides. As it happens, Begley cut his teeth as a performer some years back with the Royal Shakespeare Company and explains this return to his classical roots below. 

Wake Up With BWW 7/1: Cabello, Menzel, and Porter in CINDERELLA Trailer, and More!

Today's top stories: watch an all new Cinderella trailer starring Camila Cabello, Billy Porter, & Idina Menzel, Trevor the Musical announced a virtual casting call, and more!

Virtual Theatre This Week: June 28- July 4, 2021- with Josh Gad, Jenn Colella, and More!

This week (June 28- July 4) in live streaming: Emma Kingston and Josh Gad visit Backstage Live, Tovah Feldshuh in Becoming Dr. Ruth, a Jenn Colella Masterclass, and so much more!

Virtual Theatre This Week: June 21-27, 2021- with Kate Reinders, Amanda Kloots, and More!

This week (June 21-28) in live streaming: Kate Reinders, Amanda Kloots and Jennifer Nettles visit Backstage Live, Fredi Walker-Browne shares Ten Minute Tidbits, a Kerry Butler masterclass, Tovah Feldshuh in Becoming Dr. Ruth, and so much more!

Met Announces Three-Week Schedule For Nightly Met Opera Streams

The Met has announced themed lineups for three weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, the company's ongoing series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on its website during the Covid-19 closure. The schedule begins with a week, leading up to Father's Day on June 20, comprising a selection of operas featuring themes of fatherhood.

The Royal Opera House Reveals Highlights Of Its First Full Season Since 2019, Including THE DARK CRYSTAL, THE DANTE PROJECT and More!

The Royal Opera House has shared early plans for its 2021/22 Season, the first full Royal Opera House Season since 2019.   

Virtual Theatre Today: Thursday, December 10 with James Monroe Iglehart, Darius de Haas and More!

Today (December 10) in live streaming: Broadway's Best Shows presents Robert O'Hara's BARBECUE, James Monroe Iglehart visits Backstage Live, and so much more!

BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR at Home Computer Screens

Los Angeles Opera has a number of excellent recitals on its website including one by baritone Craig Colclough in which he sings the Shakespeare monologues from Otello and Macbeth that Verdi set to music. Together with pianist Jeremy Frank, Colclough presents a program that also includes works by Beethoven, Wagner, Porter, and Vaughan Williams.