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Carmen, Carmencita! is a symposium to be held at the Howard Assembly Rooms seeks to explore the mystery behind the myth of Carmen. The School of Music’s...

Thomas Adès Studies, co-edited by Edward Venn and Philip Stoecker, was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2021. Information about the book can be...

I recently brought together a four-article symposium on Thomas Adès at 50 for TEMPO journal. The authors - Arnold Whittall, James Donaldson, Richard Powell and I...

Thomas Adès's Exterminating Angel Symphony, a four-movement work based on material from his opera, The Exterminating Angel, is to be premiered at the 2021 BBC Proms by the City...

On 28 July 2021 Edward Venn will be presenting a paper, 'An Excursion through Haunted Libraries: The First Movement of Thomas Adès’s Concerto for Piano...

On 17 June 2021, a chapter by Edward Venn entitled 'Findings, Keepings and Borrowings: Uncanny Intertextuality in Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face' was published in...

The third podcast in Opera North's Thinking with Opera series, produced as part of the DARE partnership between Opera North and the University of Leeds, was...

On October 3 and 10 2020, Edward Venn will be participating in Opera in Flux: Identity, Staging and Narrative, a virtual conference organised by Yayoi Uno...