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Marquee TV Broadcast Schedule
23 December 2020
Marquee TV Broadcast Schedule
Summary: We are pleased to announce that our four films, on Marquee TV this January, will each be free* to watch for seven days from their first broadcast. Click h
23 December 2020
How to watch ETO's new broadcast series online
23 December 2020
How to watch ETO's new broadcast series online
Summary: Watch our Britten, Shostakovich, and Tippett productions online now. To enjoy our broadcasts on Marquee TV for free you’ll first need to set up an account
23 December 2020
Notes on The Heart's Assurance
23 December 2020
Notes on The Heart's Assurance
Summary: The Heart’s Assurance, a Song Cycle on Poems by Sidney Keyes and Alun Lewis. By Michael Tippet Sidney Keyes and Alun Lewis, both young poets served as sol
23 December 2020
Background on Britten’s ‘The Poet’s Echo’, op 76 (1965)
23 December 2020
Background on Britten’s ‘The Poet’s Echo’, op 76 (1965)
Summary: This atmospheric song cycle was composed at a composer’s retreat in Armenia, only a few months after The Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, and again for
23 December 2020
Director’s Note: Shostakovich Romances on British Poetry
23 December 2020
Director’s Note: Shostakovich Romances on British Poetry
Summary: Dmitri Shostakovich composed the Six Romances on British Poets in 1942–3. It was, of course, a time on inconceivable suffering and silence in Russia. Those
23 December 2020
Making material from a sound world
23 December 2020
Making material from a sound world
Summary: Notes by Bernadette Iglich on her interpretation and performance based on The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, song cycle by Benjamin Britten. In writing the f
23 December 2020
Notes on A Charm of Lullabies
23 December 2020
Notes on A Charm of Lullabies
Summary: Britten’s 1947 song cycle written for contralto Nancy Evans, A Charm of Lullabies, has long been a recital hall favourite. I expect that is because, in the
23 December 2020
Marina Tsvetaeva: A Note from James Conway
23 December 2020
Marina Tsvetaeva: A Note from James Conway
Summary: Almost anything you say about Marina Tsvetaeva will be corrected by someone else pretty quickly. She contained many contradictions, certainly. As far as I
23 December 2020
ETO to bring Shostakovich, Britten and Tippett productions to Marquee TV on New Year’s Day
17 December 2020
ETO to bring Shostakovich, Britten and Tippett productions to Marquee TV on New Year’s Day
Summary: We are pleased to announce that our four films, on Marquee TV this January, will each be free* to watch for seven days from their first broadcast. Click he
17 December 2020
Poulenc: Tel jour, telle nuit
4 December 2020
Poulenc: Tel jour, telle nuit
Summary: Poulenc’s remarkable song cycle Tel jour telle nuit emerged triumphantly from the ashes of an abandoned work. In December 1936, Poulenc had been working on
4 December 2020
Ideas on atonal music
2 December 2020
Ideas on atonal music
Summary: The compositional world of the twentieth century can be defined as an exploration of post-tonal techniques. The assault on tonality (when music has a centr
2 December 2020
Preparing to stage A Poet’s Echo (Britten/ Pushkin)
1 December 2020
Preparing to stage A Poet’s Echo (Britten/ Pushkin)
Summary: Until a few years ago I knew little of this song cycle. I guess it was when I was preparing to direct Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin that I set out to r
1 December 2020