Be inspired by world-class music to take positive action for our planet.
Dewi in the Deep
7th and 21st April, Royal Opera House
Join us live at the Royal Opera House for this immersive, multimedia performance of a musical story about the ocean and how to change your world.
Learn about 8-year old girl Dewi and her pet tortoise Tortellini as they go on a magic trip through the ocean, where they will meet the inhabitants of the sea, and learn how humans’ actions are impacting their environment.
Suitable for ages 3–10.
Music by Joaquim Badia and Lucie Treacher
The Sound of the Mountain
Thursday 25th July, 10:00
Culture Centre, Toblach (Italy)
Part of OFE' 2024 Alpine Tour, this magical event for children mixes technology, cycling, open-air music and some green-fingered fun. The group will explore the forests and foothills of the surrounding mountains and drop in on an OFE rehearsal, recording the sounds they hear along the way. They'll then use a specially designed app to mix these audio snippets into their very own nature-music compositions.
The event will culminate in a group cycle ride to Mahler's composing hut for an open-air performance by OFE, renditions of the children's own new compositions, and a tree-planting. It's the perfect way to learn about music and conservation in a way that's totally immersed in nature.
In collaboration with Max Calanducci
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Alpine Tour
26th July, Gustav Mahler Hall Toblach (Italy)
27th July, Kurpark, Steinach am Brenner (Austria)
MAHLER: Adagio from Symphony No. 10
BERG: Seven Early Songs
STRAUSS: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
OFE's annual Alpine Tour has been inspiring audiences since 2017 to reconnect with nature and protect the precious landscapes that were so important to Mahler.
The centrepiece of the programme this year is the Adagio from Mahler's Tenth Symphony, written during his very last summer in the Alps at his composing hut in Toblach, where OFE starts their tour. Its otherworldly harmonies and soaring melodies are a final testament to the depth of emotion he found in these mountains.This year OFE pairs Mahler's music alongside two composers who also found their own corner of heaven in the Alps, with two much-loved works by Richard Strauss and Alban Berg.
OFE Soloists
John Warner piano/conductor
Gloria Mojica mezzo-soprano
Seven Songs and a Serenade
Thursday 1st August, 6.15pm
St John's Lodge Garden, Regent's Park, London
MOZART: Serenade No. 9, 'Posthorn'
SCHUBERT: Favourite Songs, including 'Erlkönig,' 'Ständchen,' 'Nacht und Träume' and 'The Shepherd on the Rock.'
In the stunning setting of Regent's Park's 'Secret Garden,' this programme interweaves Mozart’s witty and exuberant ‘Posthorn’ Serenade with seven of Schubert’s greatest songs.
The Serenade, with imaginative solos for piccolo and posthorn, is one of Mozart's most dazzlingly diverse, a delicious smorgasbord of musical treats. Schubert’s songs are equally wide-ranging, rich in emotion and imagination and often touching on the idea of song itself, from his own ‘Serenade’ (‘Ständchen’) to the Shepherd yodelling down to his beloved from a mountaintop in ‘The Shepherd on the Rock.'
John Warner conductor
Ellie Laugharne soprano
Satriya Krisna tenor
Walk to the Paradise Garden
Sunday 4th August, 5.30pm
St John's Lodge Garden, Regent's Park, London
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending
DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'une faune
TCHAIKOVSKY: Highlights from Swan Lake and The Nutcracker
DELIUS: Walk to the Paradise Garden
And other favourites by Beethoven, Grieg, Delius, Sibelius and Janáček.
For the closing night of the Regent's Park Music Festival OFE will take you on an imaginary musical stroll through London’s beautiful parks and green spaces. The journey starts in Debussy’s magical glade and takes in Delius’ gorgeous evocation of the paradise garden, Tchaikovsky's sweeping ballet music, Vaughan Williams breath-taking Lark Ascneding, and much more besides. The concert finishes with the epic finale of Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony, inspired by an unforgettable moment in the composer’s life when he witnessed sixteen magnificent swans take flight and soar off into the distance.
John Warner conductor
Lana Trotovšek violin
Tickets for trees
For every ticket sold to an OFE concert, we plant a tree with the Eden Reforestation Projects. This is not about offsetting our emissions or environmental footprint. It's simply about adding to the good our performances achieve.
Eden collaborates directly with local communities to recreate healthy forest systems in countries where deforestation has caused extensive damage to natural ecosystems and exacerbated extreme poverty among forest-dependent human communities. These new forest systems purify water sources, control flooding and erosion, replenish soil with nutrients needed for farming, and restore wildlife habitats.
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