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Cherubini: Médée - Lila Dufy, Joyce El-Khoury in Act One - Opéra Comique (Photo: Stefan Brion)

Juliet, Jenůfa, Médée & Mary, Queen of Scots

February on Planet Hugill, our monthly digest of interviews and reviews has just come out. If you don't already subscribe, get it at MailChimp.

Welcome to February on Planet Hugill, a month that includes rare performances of Cherubini's Médée and Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots and the start of English Touring Opera's Spring tour, not forgetting Schubert's birthday at Wigmore Hall.

Interviews this month include composer Jay Capperauld on Bruckner's obsession with death, George Petrou artistic director of the Göttingen International Handel Festival on this year's festival, composer Michael Zev Gordon on writing A Kind of Haunting, his new piece inspired by his family's experience of the Holocaust and Peter Mallinson on exploring the surprisingly fertile ground of music for two violas.

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