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The Northern Opera Group (NOG) will present Stanford’s opera Much Ado About Nothing as part of the 2019 Leeds Opera Festival on August 23rd and 24th. The performances will take place in the Morley Town Hall in a suburb of Leeds We understand that this production will be with a special

SOMM Recordings is to release a double CD set of Stanford’s last opera, The Travelling Companion on September 27th, 2019. This is the first commercial recording of any of Stanford’s nine completed operas. The recording was made by SOMM during a live performance of the opera by the New

The Lyrita record labelhas released a first recording of Stanford’s Mass Via Victrix (Op. 173) in May 2019. (Lyrita SRCD 382).The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their Chorus and soloists are conducted by Adrian Partington. The sixty-eight minute work was written by Stanford in 19

The 2019 Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester is to present Stanford’s Songs of Sea in a concert at Gloucester Cathedral with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony on Friday August 2nd. 2019. Martyn Brabbins will conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra with Roderick Williams as baritone so