(Written on May 14, 2012 )

We are very excited to welcome the wonderful Baritone William Berger to our artist roster. William will be performing with La Nuova Musica at Kings Place this June in his L’Orfeo debut. He is also performing the role of Alcandro in Garsington Opera’s production of L’Olimpiade this June.

In September William will be releasing his debut recital disc Insomnia: A Nocturnal Voyage on Delphian Records. The programme for the recital was devised by William for the 2011 Lucerne Festival and describes an imaginary voyage through a restless night, with music by Mozart, Debussy, Fauré, Wolf, Vaughan Williams, Liszt and Strauss.

To keep up to date with William’s work, visit his facebook page.

(Written on April 27, 2012 )

WildKat PR are very excited to announce a new collaboration with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. We will be working with the orchestra as they launch their latest innovative marketing campaign featuring unlikely classical music fans.

Check out the orchestra’s blog for teasers of the campaign, which will be unveiled with their new season brochure soon. You can also view the trailer for the launch of the campaign here:

Other 2012 highlights for the OAE include a European tour with Sir Simon Rattle and Pierre-Laurant Aimard in June and their series exploring women in music: ‘Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers’.

For more information, visit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s website.

(Written on April 23, 2012 )

British Composer Emily Howard is delighted to announce her debut BBC Prom on August 21st.

‘Calculus of the Nervous system’, is part of the ‘Lovelace Trilogy’.  Howard took her inspiration from Ada Lovelace, the pioneering mathematician and daughter of the famous British poet Lord Bryon.  The piece was commissioned by international contemporary music festival Wien Modern 2011 for the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna and premiered in the Wiener Konzerthaus on November 20^th 2011.

Watch the video below to find out more about the composition from Emily herself.

For more information on Emily Howard please visit her website.

(Written on April 19, 2012 )

Accentus Music is delighted to announce that its production of Claudio Abbado and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 has won the 2012 BBC Music Magazine Award in the ‘Best DVD Performance’ category. The performance was recorded live at the LUCERNE FESTIVAL in August 2010.

This year was the first time that the Best DVD Performance category was decided by the public vote, reflecting the increased popularity of the classical music DVD market. The other nominees in the category were a Glyndebourne production of Billy Budd and a production of Elektra, recorded live from the Salzburg Festival 2010. Accentus Music’s production is the first concert DVD to have achieved this accolade, it having previously been awarded to operatic DVDs.

Described by Oliver Condy for BBC Music Magazine as “performed exquisitely” and praised for capturing the “very, very special” atmosphere of the concert, this DVD has hithertofore received widespread critical praise. Not only has it recently been awarded an ICMA award, it was also praised by Andrew Clark in the Financial Times, who wrote that this “fabulously fluid performance with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra is an important release.”

For more information about Accentus Music and its catalogue, visit the Accentus Music website.

(Written on April 12, 2012 )

WildKat PR are proud to announce that we are working with Omniverse Vision on the LA Phil LIVE international cinema broadcast of Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”, recorded in Caracas in February 2012.

Gustavo Dudamel’s epic Mahler Project saw him conduct all of Mahler’s completed symphonies with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. The project culminated in a dramatic performance of the 8th Symphony, dubbed the “Symphony of a Thousand”. Over 1,400 musicians and singers took to the stage in Caracas for this historic performance.

Now, the concert is being broadcast to cinemas internationally including the UK, Germany, Brazil, Hong Kong, Australia and more.

LA Phil LIVE with Gustavo Dudamel comes to UK cinemas between the 13th and 17th April 2012. For full international listings, visit the Omniverse Vision website, or contact WildKat PR.

(Written on March 21, 2012 )

Have you ever wondered what really goes on off stage at the world’s leading opera houses? Christopher Gillett’s memoir Who’s My Bottom? paints a scurrilous and funny picture of the best and worst aspects of working in the world of opera. Revealing personal experiences of frustration, money worries and humiliation Christopher accounts daily life for a “jobbing singer”.

WildKat PR are very excited to be managing an international press campaign for Christopher and Who’s My Bottom?

[In case you were wondering, the title is a doff of the hat to Christopher's somewhat signature role of Flute in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream which he has performed over 100 times.]

You can buy Who’s My Bottom? from Amazon, or for mac users, it is also available as an iBook.

(Written on March 19, 2012 )

In May 2013, Andrew Staples will perform the role of Tamino in the Royal Opera House’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. He will join Sophie Bevan (Pamina), Simon Keenlyside (Papageno), and Albina Shagimuratova (Queen of the Night)..

Other highlights in the 12/13 season include Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen with Bryn Terfel and Sarah Connolly, La bohème with Rolando Villazon, a new production of Nabucco with Placido Domingo, Simon Boccanegra with Thomas Hampson and the return of Birtwistle’s The Minotaur.

For a full list of productions, visit the Royal Opera House website.

Credit: Richard Ecclestone

(Written on March 15, 2012 )

Tenor Andrew Staples was featured in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph discussing his work away from the stage – directing and producing, and his upcoming plans to tour Africa from Nairobi to Cape Town with a travelling production of Die Zauberflöte. To read the full interview visit the Daily Telegraph’s website. More information about Opera for Change, visit operaforchange.com.

(Written on February 7, 2012 )

In the current issue of Classical Music Magazine, conductor Thomas Kemp discusses the pros and occasional cons of working with living composers, and about his recent recording of chamber works by Mark-Anthony Turnage with Chamber Domaine and Nicky Spence.

You can read Thomas’ interview in the current issue of Classical Music Magazine and buy the recording, A Constant Obsession, from Resonus Classics.

Stepping away from contemporary repertoire, Thomas makes his Opera Holland Park debut this summer, conducting their new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

(Written on February 2, 2012 )