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  • Escamillo: Carmen – Norwich Opera Festival

    Kieran will make his role debut as Escamillo in Carmen, and play Billy Bones in a new opera Captain Blood’s Revenge, for the Norwich Into Opera Festival this summer. More details to follow.

  • Sorcerer: Dido & Aeneas – Waterperry Opera Festival

    Kieran will sing the villainous Sorcerer in Waterperry’s Double Bill of Dido & Aeneas and Acis & Galatea. Acis and Galatea. The ethereal nymph, Galatea, is in love with a youthful shepherd, Acis. All seems serene, until their love is threatened by the jealousy of the monstrous Polyphemus. Directed by Rebecca Meltzer (Svadba, Hansel and Gretel, Ariel, […]

  • Frankie – 1944: Home Fires

    Ivor Novello (tenor): Alfred Mitchell ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser (baritone): Kieran Rayner Clara Novello Davies, Ivor’s mother (soprano): Olivia Bell Prison Warder (bass-baritone): Anthony Lloyd The idol and the thug: well-known Queer Ivor Novello was the most successful composer and matinee idol of the 30s and 40s.  In 1944 he was banged up in Wormwood Scrubs for […]

  • Frankie – 1944: Home Fires

    Ivor Novello (tenor): Alfred Mitchell ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser (baritone): Kieran Rayner Clara Novello Davies, Ivor’s mother (soprano): Olivia Bell Prison Warder (bass-baritone): Anthony Lloyd The idol and the thug: well-known Queer Ivor Novello was the most successful composer and matinee idol of the 30s and 40s.  In 1944 he was banged up in Wormwood Scrubs for […]

  • Francis – Displaced

    Music: Omar Shahryar Words: Hannah Kumari Created by PJ Harris and Hannah Kumari A work-in-progress performance. In the shadow of international unrest, the increasingly militant Suffragettes plan an attack which could change the history of Woolwich Arsenal FC forever. Annie is a football fan, and a Suffragette. Francis is a munitions factory worker, and a father. William […]

  • What If? – Samling Arts Residency

    Kieran Rayner and Gamal Khamis are one of two duos to be successfully granted a Samling and Song Residency. During this intensive week, they will be developing and polishing their interactive play/recital, What If? – a World War 1 era love story with 8 possible endings, where the audience gets to choose what happens next. […]

  • Friends & Lovers – Ralph & Ursula Vaughan Williams

    Saturday 2nd December 2023 4:30pm at United Reformed Church, Broxbourne “Friends and Lovers” – Ursula & Ralph Vaughan Williams A programme telling the story of Ursula and Ralph’s relationship told through Ralph’s songs and settings of Ursula’s poetry along with Ursula and Ralph’s own words taken from his letters and her biography of him and […]

  • DEBUT Secret Christmas Concert

    Join DEBUT, creators of Airbnb’s No.1 Music Experience, for their intimate and fun Secret Concert at Brunel Museum’s awe-inspiring Thames Tunnel Shaft with botanical cocktails by Midnight Apothecary. One of London’s best kept secrets, DEBUT at Brunel Museum offers magnetic performances, time to chat to your favourite musicians and the chance to discover Brunel Museum’s […]

  • DEBUT Secret Christmas Concert

    Join DEBUT, creators of Airbnb’s No.1 Music Experience, for their intimate and fun Secret Concert at the magical Shoreditch Treehouse One of London’s best kept secrets, DEBUT at Shoreditch Treehouse offers magnetic performances, time to chat to your favourite musicians and the chance to feel at home in the heart of London. Launched in 2017, […]

  • POSTPONED – Frank: Die Fledermaus – Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

    In cooperation with the Vienna-Tel Aviv Vocal Connection Strauss‘s opera Die Fledermaus, with conductor David Aronson, Shahar Choir (Gila Brill, conductor) and soloists from Israel and abroad. David Aronson, conductor Rosemarie Danziger, stage director Rosalinde: Efrat Ashkenazi (The Israeli Opera) Adele: Emily Rocha (Toronto, International Award Winning Artist) Alfred: Franz Gürtelschmied (Bastille Opera, Paris; Graz […]

  • Opera Concert Tour NZ

    We are over the moon to introduce our Opera Tour artists:  Whangārei soprano, Sophie Sparrow, for all the concerts Cheviot tenor, Harry Grigg, for all the concerts Kāpiti baritone, Kieran Rayner, for the Auckland and Wellington concerts Australian-Cypriot mezzo, Shakira Tsindos, for all the concerts. We are very lucky to have these London-based artists join us in New Zealand. We are also thrilled to have […]

  • Ayres on a Shoestring with Gyles Brandreth

    An Amazing Musical Matinee! While away your Sunday afternoon in the capable hands of the nation’s best loved raconteur, Gyles Brandreth, as he is joined by poet, comedian, songwriter and presenter Pam Ayres MBE. Gyles Brandreth will compère live musical performances from the imagination of award-winning composer Louis Mander in his impressive catalogue of opera and musical theatre, written in collaboration […]

  • Aeneas: Dido & Aeneas, Somerset Opera

    Somerset Opera present Dido and Aeneas Directed by Guido Martin Brandis, conducted by Noah Mosley. Experience Purcell’s timeless music performed by sublime soloists and Somerset Opera with the Taunton Sinfonietta beside the 4th Century Low Ham Mosaic. Marvel at this beautiful and ancient piece of narrative art – which depicts the tragic love story of […]

  • Bartolo: Barber of Seville

    Performances on the 10, 11, 14, 15 & 17 of August 2024 Location: Waterperry Main Stage Start Time & Duration: Performances start at 6:30pm. There is one extended dining interval. Performances end at approx. 9:45pm. Overflowing with wit, charm, and famous melodies, The Barber of Seville is our unmissable headline opera this year. Step into Rossini’s vibrant world, a […]

  • Haydn: Creation

    Kieran Rayner | Kieran Rayner – Baritone Kieran returns as a soloist with Llanelli Chamber Choir, this time to sing the bass solos in Haydn’s Creation.

  • Corrado: Maria de Rudenz, Donizetti

    This Halloween, Gothic Opera presents Maria de Rudenz by Donizetti, fully staged with a new arrangement for chamber orchestra, at historic venue Battersea Arts Centre, London. This production will be the first time Maria de Rudenz has been staged in the UK.  Maria de Rudenz is inspired by an episode of Matthew Gregory Lewis’s gothic novel The Monk, and tells a gory story of deceit, murder, betrayal, […]

  • What If? – An Interactive Recital

    What If? An uplifting and moving concert and play combined, exploring love, loss, war, and women’s suffrage through song – where you, the audience, get to choose the direction of the story. Kieran Rayner baritone Gamal Khamis piano What If? is a play and song recital combined – with a twist. At pivotal moments in the story, the […]

  • Rossini: Petite Messe Solenelle

    Jubilee Choir Odiham Kieran sings the bass solos in Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonnelle, which is neither short nor solemn. It is a joyous piece reflecting Rossini’s love of opera.   Tickets: https://thelittleboxoffice.com/jubileechoir/event/view/203121.