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Applications open for soloists for The Snowman
Do you know someone who is… Aged 11-14? A great singer with an unbroken voice (boys and girls)? Brave enough to sing solo on the stage of Sage One, accompanied by Royal Northern Sinfonia, in front of an audience of over 1000 people? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Royal Northern Sinfonia…
Royal Northern Sinfonia Chorus tells all about Haydn's Creation
When Joseph Haydn turned his hand to the greatest story of all time – the creation – his imagination simply bubbled over. Filled with sparkling melodies and blockbuster choruses, singing The Creation on October 25 will be a real treat for the Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. “I feel like a kid presented with a…
Abigail's Blog: Humbug!
The nature of language in public and private life has bubbled to the surface of topicality in the past weeks. You might think at this stage that it just needs doing, no matter how or that it needs doing in the right way and not until the right way can be found, or indeed that…
Abigail's Blog: Green is my favourite colour
So said one of my colleagues last week. We were discussing the forthcoming performance season. We use a simple traffic light system for how tickets are selling for each event – green for exceeded target, amber for on track but still to make sales, red for behind target. Saturday’s open concert of Royal Northern Sinfonia’s…
New artists added to TUSK 2019 Line-Up
TUSK Festival returns for its 9th edition this October, once again bringing its uniquely diverse programme of adventurous international music to the North East of England. Following earlier spectacular line-up announcement for TUSK 2019 – that included uncategorisable French legends MAGMA playing only one of two 2019 UK shows at TUSK to celebrate their 50…
Abigail's Blog: Something of a Lottery…
We’re very excited at Sage Gateshead because we’ve been shortlisted for the 25th Anniversary Awards for the National Lottery – the search for the most loved National Lottery project. We’re in the Arts, Culture & Film category alongside 9 other amazing organisation. Winning is being on a list with these other organisations – so different…
Abigail's Blog: Don't mention the retaining wall
This week Sage Gateshead’s Managing Director Abigail Pogson talks about our exciting new plans for the building… We recently announced our plans to undertake some capital work on Sage Gateshead. It’s the first work of this kind on our building, which will be a whole 15 years old this December. This is a milestone in…
Abigail's Blog: 50:50
Last week Sage Gateshead signed a pledge to have a 50:50 gender balance in all of our commissioning, our associate artists and our festivals. In doing this we joined hundreds of other organisations as part of Keychange, an international movement to increase gender balance in the music industry. Last week I also watched two operas…