Diary

24.04.26 Spor Festival, Aarhus: Late Night Lineup

Date: April 25, 2026
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Michael Hope’s Late Night Lineup

https://www.sporfestival.dk/events/late-night-lineup

Performance by : Michael Hope & K!ART

Late-Night Lineup is a new music concert in a completely unexpected format: A late-night talk show – hosted by composer Michael Hope. Through interviews and monologues, battles and challenges, we will gain new perspectives on the tropes and our expectations of the new music concert experience.

Rainy Days Festival – Luxembourg

Date: November 21, 2025
Time: 7:15 pm - 8:15 pm
Location: Grand Foyer, Philharmonie Luxembourg

Performing Wicked Problems – Laura Bowler, Oxymoron – Helmut Oehring and In a Large, Open Space by James Tenney with the United Instruments of Lucillin

Rhizomessages

Date: November 1, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

PLASTIC BODIES

Date: September 25, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

PLASTIC BODIES: darkly funny experimental music theatre for the #metoo era.

How does an industry so obsessed with the voice leave its performers without one? 

Flipping between live game-play, film, movement, electronics, and the rehearsal room, PLASTIC BODIES peels back the curtain on hidden abuse in the opera industry. Following rave reviews at their 2023 double bill (‘FIVE STARS’ – Opera Now; ‘Revelatory’ – TLS), PLASTIC BODIES returns to Tête-à-Tête with a full-length showdown you won’t want to miss.

Voix Nouvelles

Date: August 22, 2025
Time: 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Royaumont Abbaye

Solo vocalist performing new works by Mees Vervuurt, Anais-Nour Benchlahab and Claire Hu with Ensemble Orbis.

Who is Molly Leigh?

Start date: July 23, 2025
End date: July 27, 2025
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: B-arts, Stoke on Trent

A new community opera exploring the legend of accused witch Molly Leigh at B.ARTS in Stoke in July 2025

Through immersive music and storytelling, we will explore local history from the perspective of women and those excluded by society for being ‘different’ to find out, “Who is Molly Leigh?”

Composed and Written by Francesca Le Lohe and Gareth Mattey, the opera is creatively produced by B.ARTS and co-created with members of the local community.

B.ARTS, 64-72 Hartshill Road, Stoke, ST4 7RB

Tickets are “Pay what you can”.

Get your tickets now – ticketsource.co.uk/b-arts

This is an immersive, promenade piece where audiences choose their own route through the opera.

Podium Festival 2025

Date: May 18, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Podium Festival, Esslingen, Germany

Delighted to jump-in for the final concert at Podium Festival 2025. Conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni, and with large festival ensemble.

Louis Andriessen – De Staat

Zara Ali/Anais Clerk – GOSCH

Carmen, cours d’assizes

Start date: April 3, 2025
End date: April 4, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Oracle Song

Start date: March 20, 2025
End date: March 22, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Barbican Centre

A poetic and intricate listening experience that sees the award-winning artist collaborate with an AI machine to explore the complexity of human and animal relationships.

Award-winning artist Melanie Wilson collaborates with an AI machine learning tool to explore the conflicted terrain of human and animal relationships through sound.
This poetic, intricate listening experience weaves together language, multi-part vocal composition, field recording and electronic sound to map the fragmentary experience of the biodiversity crisis with kaleidoscopic force.
Created using endangered animal voices from the UK and beyond, the score was developed through a five-year research process into machine learning for composition, supported by PRiSM, The Centre for Practice and Research in Science and Music, at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Oracle Song seeks to take the audience from a place of climate anxiety and grief into a shared landscape of listening and connection.

A MAP OF THE PIT

Date: March 7, 2025
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: TATE MODERN

TATE MODERN

JAMES RICHARDS

WITH SARAH DACEY