A Conversation With RENÉE FLEMING
Renée Fleming, as part of Ms Fleming’s Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies at the University of Oxford, November 2013. The discussion flowed from Edward’s opening question: ‘What makes now a different time to be a singer…
A Conversation With MAUREEN LIPMAN
Maureen Lipman, the much-loved and extraordinarily versatile actress who made a sitcom of a commercial and whose stage work has ranged from Olivier’s National Theatre and the musicals of Leonard Bernstein and Rodgers and Hammerstein to a…
BBC Radio 2 Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman
Delighted to be back as a regular guest on the the Radio 2 Arts Show with the amazing Claudia Winkleman 03/10/2014: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hcmtp 06/03/2015: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053zw4n… [Read More]
A Conversation With LINUS ROTH: Crusading for Weinberg
The Polish composer Miecyzlaw Weinberg – his Holocaust opera The Passenger caused quite a stir in David Pountney’s premiere staging – has a new champion. The talented young German violinist Linus Roth has taken his music and…
In Conversation and in Song with SOPHIE-LOUISE DANN
SOPHIE-LOUISE DANN Sunday 9th November 2014, St James Studio Sophie-Louise Dann is quite simply one of the most engaging and versatile musical theatre performers that the UK has ever produced. Anyone catching her recently in Forbidden Broadway…
A Conversation With VASILY PETRENKO: Shostakovich Symphony No.13 “Babi Yar”
With the final release in Vasily Petrenko’s much-lauded Shostakovich cycle on Naxos the young maestro talks to Edward Seckerson about a masterpiece the Soviet authorities tried but failed to sabotage at its first performances. YevgenyYevtushenko’s poem “Babi…
A Conversation With SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO
Music Director of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Antonio Pappano, world-renowned pianist and conductor, will tell us about his extraordinary musical background and life. In discussion with well-known interviewer Edward Seckerson, he will reveal just…
A Conversation With CORINNE WINTERS: Life before and after the London ‘Traviata’
In February 2013 Corinne Winters created an absolute sensation in her operatic European debut when Peter Konwitschny’s starkly intense staging of Verdi’s La Traviata arrived at English National Opera. Vocally, physically, dramatically her Violetta (“the whore who…
CLASSIC FM – Charlotte Green’s Culture Club – Sunday 3-5pm
In my debut on CLASSIC FM I’ll be popping up regularly on Charlotte Green’s Culture Club – Sunday 3-5pm – with selective tips for all that’s best in live Classical Music, Opera, and Musical Theatre. Short and…
Richard Rodgers Day With Jason Carr & Friends
24th July 2014, Ryedale Festival An event for all lovers of Musical Theatre, Music Hall and the Popular Song. A double-concert celebration of arguably the greatest and most versatile popular melodist of them all, introduced by Edward Seckerson,…
