Abigail Kelly

Taken from the Birmingham Post website. "There was music from opera singer Abigail Kelly, who studied at Birmingham Conservatoire and performed across the world, along with violinist and composer Shirley Thompson, a professor of music at Westminster University and the first woman in Europe to have composed and conducted a symphony within the last 40 years." To see pictures from the event [Click here].

Ten leading music practitioners and industry experts met on stage at the Birmingham Town Hall where many of the hits would have been played down the decades.

The panel comprised the MOBO award-winning Laura Mvula, Vix Vox from Fuzzbox, The Specials' Horace Panter and Phil Etheridge from The Twang.

Others include music journalists Pete Paphides and Matt Everitt, soprano Abigail Kelly and promoter Markus Sargeant. They had just three hours to cast their votes, with the chance to hear snippets as a refresher.

Read more and see pictures on the Birmingham Mail website. [Click here]

On Saturday, 10 May Inside Opera: Live broadcast from the Grand Opera House in Leeds, giving exclusive behind the scenes access to seven of the UK's biggest opera companies.

If you've ever wondered how English Touring Opera puts a show on the road, watch the ETO Opera that Moves film, which was specially-commissioned for the day. It follows a week of ETO performances at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham with Soprano Abigail Kelly, production manager Marius Ronning and staff director Dafydd Hall Williams.

Birmingham soprano Abigail Kelly talks to Christopher Morley about her busy schedule with the English Touring Opera - Click here

Dear visitors and friends,
 
Welcome to my first ever blog! I am very happy to announce that we have now enabled a blog on the website.

I am finally feeling rested after the English Touring Opera Spring tour.

I always have an irrational nervousness before performances. However it is not due to the anxiety of performing but  to the worry that I’ll fall over before I make it to the stage! Well my fears were justified.

Long time, no blog! I’ve not updated my blog in a little while as I have been on a lovely summer vacation in Jamaica and America.

I have done so much travelling in the last week and as of tomorrow I will be in South Africa!

From the Morning Live studios, Philip drove me to Kaya FM where I had a radio interview with Kgomotso Matsunyane.