Oskar sings the baritone solos in Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

Conductor - Jonathan Rathbone

Cecilia McDowall’s Da Vinci Requiem

Soprano - Katy Thomson

Baritone - Oskar McCarthy

Conductor - Mark Jordan

Piano - Alex Aitken

MK Chorale

Ensemble: HIS MAJESTY'S SAGBUTTS AND CORNETTS, LEADING BAROQUE INSTRUMENTALISTS

Soloists: ANA BEARD FERNANDEZ, THOMAS KELLY, CHRIS FITZGERALD-LOMBARD, BEN MCKEE, OSKAR MCCARTHY

Conductor: GREGORY BATSLEER

Choirs: HCS, HCS YOUTH CHOIRS, HCS VOICES

This is the first ever London staging of Madeleine Dring’s (1923 – 1977) only opera, ‘Cupboard Love’. Written in the early 50s, this work wasn’t performed until a read through in 1983 and it remained unpublished until 2017. A comedy murder ‘whodunit’, it features three characters – the Wife, the Boyfriend and the Husband. This year marks 100 years since Dring’s birth and therefore it seems the perfect time to ‘premiere’ this work especially given that she was a Londoner herself. 

He: Oskar McCarthy
She: Sarah Dacey
It: Sam Oladeinde

Director: Sam Redway Wells

In 1983, Peter Tatchell stood as the Labour candidate for the seat of Bermondsey in the upcoming by-election. Following a bitter and fractious campaign that extensively targeted Tatchell’s gay rights advocacy and left-wing politics, the seat was won by Simon Hughes of the Liberal party (who himself came out in 2006) in what remains the largest swing of any by-election in British political history.

This new multi-media verbatim opera interrogates the personal and political impact of this campaign, and the long shadow it has cast on British politics, using the very words of those who lived through it. Following residencies at Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh and LOD muziektheater in Belgium, we are excited to present a full performance of ‘Bermondsey, 1983’ on the 40th anniversary of this infamous by-election.

Peter Tatchell: Arthur Bruce
Simon Hughes: Oskar McCarthy
Violin: Emily Earl

Music: Robert Reid Allan
Words: Gareth Mattey
Director: Sam Redway Wells

Enchanting Arias is a fun, interactive lunchtime concert presented by Royal Albert Hall in collaboration with OperaEd.

Soprano Susie Gibbons, mezzo-soprano Helen Maree Cooper, tenor Zahid Siddiqui, baritone Oskar McCarthy and pianist Ashley Beauchamp perform a selection of enchanting and wondrous arias from operas including Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and Bizet’s Carmen.

Performances at 11:00am and 1:30pm

More details available on the RAH website.

Oskar returns to collaborate with the London Euphonia Orchestra and conductor Dario Peluso, with whom he performed Kindertotenlieder in 2016, to perform Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs.

The programme also includes Vaughan Williams' Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 and Beethoven's 4th Symphony.

Oskar sings the bass solos in Schubert's Stabat Mater in F and Haydn's Heiligmesse.

Conductor - Patricia Williams

Oskar sings the bass solos in Handel’s Messiah.

Conductor - Johnny Kilhams

Oskar sings Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and the bass solos in Haydn’s Nelson Mass.

Brockham Choral (choir)

British Sinfonietta (orchestra)

Cole Bendall (conductor)

Calling children aged 7 – 99 and their adults…

Join the Vache Baroque Festival for the very first performances of our interactive show all about SOUND!

We’ll be exploring sounds on planet earth from 4.5 billion years ago right up to the time of Bach. This is a first sharing of a show that will tour to schools in 2023 and beyond.

Co-devised and directed by
Paul O’Mahony

Co-devised and performed by
Oskar McCarthy
Gabriella Liandu
Betty Makharinsky
Jonathan Darbourne

Lyubov Petrova - soprano

Andrew Staples - tenor

Dietrich Henschel - baritone

Philharmonia Chorus

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

conducted by Vasily Petrenko

Royal Albert Hall, London

Oskar sings the baritone solos in Brahms’ Ein deutsches requiem and Dvorak’s Te Deum with Ilkley Choral Society.

Conductor - Jennifer Sterling

Oskar sings the part of Jesus in Bach's St John Passion

Conductor - Peter Fender

Oskar sings the baritone solos in Faure’s Requiem and Bach’s Magnificat with Walton Voices.

Conductor - Jonathan Kilhams

After sell-out runs in 2018 and 2019 at Waterperry Opera Festival, Oskar travels with the WOF team to the Newbury Spring Festival to narrate two performances (10am and 12pm) of this family show, accompanied by a string quartet. Peter Rabbit's Musical Adventures offers music interwoven with story-telling in a dynamic family theatre experience.

More information at the festival website.