Gibraltar's National Day: 10th September
The National Day of Gibraltar will be marked by a week full of celebrations and events ranging from concerts to festivals meant to create a joyful atmosphere throughout.
http://www.visitgibraltar.gi/events/upcoming-events/national-day-56
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Conductor Marcello Rota with beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform in the Europa Point Sports Complex in Gibraltar on September 9th 2019. Joined by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra

´On the evening of Monday the 9th of September 2019 Andrea Bocelli will perform a unique repertoire from his chart-topping number one album, "Si”, along with a soul-stirring selection of arias, love songs and crossover hits. Andrea Bocelli has been thrilling audiences with his live performances for over 20 years, selling nearly 90 million records worldwide. He has performed for four US Presidents, two Popes and Royal families around the world. He even has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.´
https://www.rpo.co.uk/whats-on/eventdetail/1345/83/andrea-bocelli-in-gibraltar


Marcello Rota Conductor
Andrea Bocelli Tenor
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra

Europa Point Sports Complex
Gibraltar

José Carreras says goodbye to London as part of his farewell tour. GCE Heritage brings to the public a  farewell concert which will take place on the 16th June 2019 at 19:30. 

GCE Heritage presents The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra who will accompany José Carreras performing a repertoire of opera classics, conducted by David Giménez. The Sunday finale in London  will be extra special as José Carreras says goodbye to London as part of his farewell tour. Alongside a discography that includes over 160 recordings that range across classical and popular music, earning him several Gold and Platinum discs with over 80 million records sold in total, Carreras is one of the most accomplished tenors in history.

A spectacular concert for all as he is sure to retrace some of the roles for which he is most famous for not least the Verdi and Puccini  characters that he created. 
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​The Royal Society of Musicians is Britain’s oldest music charity and its aims remain as relevant today as they were in the earliest years – to provide immediate financial assistance to musicians unable to work due to accident, illness or old age. Being a charity run by musicians for musicians, the Society is uniquely placed to fully understand the challenges faced within the profession.

Pelagia´s concerto recording for Captain Corelli´s Mandolin UK tour 2019

Behind the scenes in the recording studio for the forthcoming tour of Captain Corelli's Mandolin with composer Harry Blake.
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CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN is an epic love story set on the Greek island of Cephalonia. It follows the lives of Dr Iannis, his beautiful, strong-willed daughter Pelagia and the Italian Captain Antonio Corelli, during the Italian and German occupation of the island in World War II. For CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN, Louis de Bernières won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Overall Winner for Best Book, the 1995 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. In 2001, the novel was adapted into a film starring Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN will be directed by Olivier and Tony Award nominee Melly Still and adapted by Evening Standard Award winner and Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominee Rona 

CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN will have set and costume designs by Mayou Trikerioti, lighting design by Malcolm Rippeth, sound design by Jon Nicholls, projection design by Dom Baker for OD Vision and music composed by Harry Blake.
CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN is produced by Neil Laidlaw, Rose Theatre Kingston and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
https://www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news/captain-corellis-mandolin-tour-full-cast-announced/

​100th Anniversary Bringing cultures closer
The BritishSpanish Society is a registered charity whose object is to promote friendship and understanding between the people of Britain and Spain through knowledge of each other’s customs, institutions, history and way of life.

The Anglo Spanish Society Review 228 Spring/Summer
In conversation with Nicole Crespo O´Donoghue
"La Revista"
​In the run up to the Society’s third annual Classical Concert violinist
Nicole Crespo O’Donoghue, who will be performing again this year in a recital
organized
by the Anglo-Spanish Society, speaks to La Revista about her Irish-Spanish
heritage and her musical ambitions.
The petite musician with a giant talent won a scholarship from the Diputación Foral de Bizkaia to attend the Royal Academy of Music and has her sights set on Carnegie Hall.
“My mother is Irish, born in Dublin and I, like my father was born in Bilbao but spent long summers in Ireland.
I always knew I would play the violin.

​Nicole Crespo plays a solo recital on the "Beech-Back" Stradivarius.



The Ashmolean Museum

• The Ashmolean Museum brings together 20 of the finest surviving Stradivarius instruments for the first major UK show dedicated to the Italian maker. 
• Attached to the University of Oxford

​Nicole becomes Artist of OnstageOffstage