Conductor & Musical Director | Passionate about #Opera and #ClassicalMusic transformation 🎶| Current work: Ethel Smyth’s "Entente Cordiale” w/ @retrospectopera
Joined December 2014
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
23 Sep 2025
"Andrews is a past master at extracting the best from underpriced scores and he and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera excel themselves in a properly reflective reading, allowing his players to relish Bantock's instrumental colourings along the way." @RetrospectOpera @operamagazine
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
8 Sep 2025
Editor's Choice - October 2025
Review of Kennedy-Fraser and Bantock's The Seal-Woman (Retrospect Opera, 2025) in @LimelightArtsAu, 8 September 2025, by Clive Paget:
limelight-arts.com.au/review…
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
10 Aug 2025
Congratulations to our former Trustee Andy King on the Keynote at the International Society for the Study of Egyptomania conference this weekend. issegyptomania.com/
Find out more about The Seal-Woman: retrospectopera.org.uk/produ…
And The Happy Prince: retrospectopera.org.uk/produ…
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
8 Aug 2025
And the reviews are in for #TheSealWoman with
@RetrospectOpera! Fair to say not all the critics agree entirely about its stageability, but are absolutely unanimous in praise for the beauty of the score and wonderful performances. Congratulations team!
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8 Aug 2025
So proud of having worked on this with the simply amazing team. Bravo all @RetrospectOpera! 😍
8 Aug 2025
And the reviews are in for #TheSealWoman with
@RetrospectOpera! Fair to say not all the critics agree entirely about its stageability, but are absolutely unanimous in praise for the beauty of the score and wonderful performances. Congratulations team!
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
7 Aug 2025
‘All credit to Retrospect Opera [...] Yvonne Howard is in fine voice as The Cailleach [...] Best of all is Catherine Carby as the seal woman’
- Review of Bantock and Kennedy-Fraser’s The Seal-Woman, Christopher Cook, BBC Music Magazine, 7 August 2025
pressreader.com/uk/bbc-music…
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
1 Aug 2025
"Retrospect Opera has an excellent track record in recording largely unknown British operas: this latest release is not a disappointment.... Conductor John Andrews leads his forces in a well-shaped reading of the score." ⭐⭐⭐⭐ from Opera Now.
gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/r…
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
27 Jul 2025
“Throughout the performance is well played and sung… The extensive booklet notes are thorough and absorbing. This was clearly a labour of love… there’s no question it is good to have this extremely enterprising release”britishmusicsociety.co.uk/20…
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
27 Jul 2025
"Throughout the performance is well played and sung ... The extensive booklet notes are thorough and absorbing. This was clearly a labour of love."
- Review of Kennedy-Fraser & Bantock's The Seal-Woman by Kevin Mandry for British Music Society, July 2025
britishmusicsociety.co.uk/20…
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24 Jul 2025
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23 Jul 2025
Many congratulations to @Dr_Chris_Wiley for his piece on Smyth’s Entente Cordiale in this month’s @operamagazine magazine – perfectly timed as the opera, which I will be recording with @RetrospectOpera next year, turns 100!
22 Jul 2025
#OTD in 1925, @DameEthelSmyth's Entente Cordiale was premiered at the Royal College of Music, London. To commemorate this centenary, our own @Dr_Chris_Wiley has written an article for @operamagazine. #EthelSmyth To donate to our upcoming recording: retrospectopera.org.uk/enten…
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
15 Jul 2025
Review of Kennedy-Fraser/Bantock, The Seal-Woman (Retrospect Opera) by Jim Westhead, MusicWeb International: musicwebinternational.com/20…
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19 Jul 2025
Thank you @classicjacko for all you do for inclusion. :-)
19 Jul 2025
If this ‘critic’ had bothered to do his research, he would have seen that it’s not called ‘The Relaxing Prom’. It’s a ‘Relaxed Prom’, often attended by those with additional needs. The @bbcproms is for everyone. And I make absolutely no apology for that. thecritic.co.uk/democratisin…
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9 Jul 2025
Congratulations @jsavournin
9 Jul 2025
Waterperry Opera Festival @WaterperryOpera has appointed John Savournin @jsavournin as CEO and Artistic Director from September 1.
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
5 Jul 2025
Great mention of the @RetrospectOpera recording of C.V. Stanford's Shamus O'Brien this morning on @BBCRadio3, following broadcast of a movement from one of Stanford's symphonies. Listen from 13:13-13:51 here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002f7…
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
3 Jul 2025
The longer version of the interview with @jkaconductor about our recording of Kennedy-Fraser and Bantock's The Seal-Woman has now gone live: youtu.be/vkIxvKnPTNY
To order our recording of The Seal-Woman: retrospectopera.org.uk/produ…
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
2 Jul 2025
Here's a short video featuring @jkaconductor interviewed by @B_F_Hamilton in advance of our recent launch of Kennedy-Fraser and Bantock's The Seal-Woman: youtu.be/4zgXAFc6xI0
To order our recording of The Seal-Woman: retrospectopera.org.uk/produ…
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
29 Jun 2025
Last Sunday, six tracks from our recording of Kennedy-Fraser & Bantock's The Seal-Woman were broadcast on @BBCRadioScot's 'Classical Now', presented by Jamie MacDougall & introduced by @bycarbytrain who sings the title role. Listen here from 51.25-1.16.28: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dw0…
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Benjamin Hamilton retweeted
27 Jun 2025
One week on: some photos from last Friday's launch event for our recording of Kennedy-Fraser and Bantock's opera The Seal-Woman.
To watch the launch: youtu.be/1VGQ547pbfw
To order our recording: retrospectopera.org.uk/produ…
@jkaconductor @scottishopera
retrospectopera.org.uk/the-s…
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