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Tuesday, 15 August 2023

A focus on Handel: the English Concert's 2023/24 season

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The English Concert The English Concert's 2023/24 season centres very firmly on the music of Handel. Kristian Bezuidenhout conducts a pe...

Puccini centenary and a Handel first: Opera Holland Park's 2024 season

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Puccini: Tosca - Amanda Echalaz Opera Holland Park in 2008 (Photo Fritz Curzon) Next year is the centenary of Puccini's death and Opera...

London, ca.1740: Handel's musicians: wonderfully engaged performances from La Rêveuse as they explore works by the musicians of Handel's orchestra

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London, ca.1740: Handel's musicians :  Charles Weideman, Giuseppe Sammartini, Pietro Castrucci,  George Frideric Handel, James Oswald; L...
Monday, 14 August 2023

Art:Song – Images, Words, Music: Oxford Song Festival 2023

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The Oxford International Song Festival (formerly the Oxford Lieder Festival) opens on 13 October 2023  with over two weeks on song under the...

Still a classic after all these years: Peter Hall's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Glyndebourne is in strong hands in the latest revival, conducted by Dalia Stasevska

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Oliver Barlow & fairies (Trinity Boys Choir) - Glyndebourne 2023 ( © Glyndebourne Productions ...
Sunday, 13 August 2023

Tales of Love and Enchantment: exploring the songs of Isabelle Aboulker

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Isabelle Aboulker Tales of Love and Enchantment: The songs of Isabelle Aboulker ; Julia Kogan, Nigel Foster; London Song Festival at Hinde S...
Saturday, 12 August 2023

Small but fierce: I chat to Cameron Menzies, artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera

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Verdi: La Traviata - Northern Ireland Opera in 2022 (Photo: Philip McGowan) Cameron Menzies is the Australian-born artistic director and C...
Friday, 11 August 2023

Josephine Lang, Madeleine Dring, new works for piano trio and a Winterreise Weekend with Roger Vignoles: Conway Hall Sunday Concerts' Autumn Season

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Simon Callaghan (artistic director of Conway Hall Sunday Concerts) and the Piatti Quartet at Conway Hall Conway Hall's Sunday Concerts s...

Ruddigore: Gilbert & Sullivan's supernatural Gothic melodrama at Opera Holland Park

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Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore - Stephen Gadd & chorus - Opera Holland Park (Photo Craig Fuller) Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore; ...
Wednesday, 9 August 2023

Scottish International Piano Competition is returning to Glasgow for the first time since 2017

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2017 Scottish International Piano Competition prize winner Can Çakmur with Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Thomas Søndergård (Photo ...

Handel's Attick: music for solo clavichord - A subtle and revelatory disc from Julian Perkins

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Handel's Attick: Music for Clavichord ; Julian Perkins; Deux Elle A disc which explores the music Handel would have played as a student,...
Tuesday, 8 August 2023

Providing a voice for composers whose careers were disrupted by anti-Semitism and bigotry: Royal Conservatory of Music's ARC Ensemble celebrates 20 years

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ARC Ensemble The ARC Ensemble of Canada's Royal Conservatory of Music is celebrating 20 years of music making. Comprised of the senior ...

Prom 31: Glyndebourne Opera's production of Poulenc's Carmelites, a gripping performance triumphs over unfair acoustic and theatrical compromises

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Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites - final scene - Glyndebourne Festival at BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/ Sisi Burn) Poulenc: Dialogues des Carm...
Monday, 7 August 2023

Flowers of the Seasons: Politics, Power & Poverty

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Eliza Flower Eliza Flower (1803–1846) was a Humanist, she also stood for Women’s & Workers Rights. A pioneering feminist songwriter. A r...
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A statement of solidarity between Belarusians & Ukrainians: Belarus Free Theatre's King Stakh's Wild Hunt unites actors, opera singers & musicians at the Barbican

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Belarus Free Theatre (BFT), co-founding artistic directors, Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada, is known for its provocative physical thea...
Saturday, 5 August 2023

Prom 27: eclectic mix - Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini & Walton's Belshazzar's Feast

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Prom 27 -Walton's Belshazzar's Feast - Klaus Mäkelä, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus - BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/Chris Chri...

A framework for all young musicians in Scotland: I chat to conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire, the music director of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland

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Catherine Larsen Maguire (Photo: Miguel Barreto) The British conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire was recently announced as the music directo...
Friday, 4 August 2023

Pegasus Opera Company announce eight singers taking part in mentoring programme in association with Glyndebourne Opera

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Pegasus Opera Company's trailblazing 2023 mentoring programme offers aspiring and emerging artists of African and Asian heritage a bespo...

In case you missed it - July on Planet Hugill

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Massenet: Le roi de Lahore - Michael Anthony McGee, Amar Muchhala, Seljan Nasibli, Julian Close - Dorset Opera (Photo: Julian Guidera) Our J...

Gŵyl Machynlleth Festival

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Machynlleth is an historic market town in Wales that was the seat of Owain Glyndŵr's Welsh Parliament in 1404, and as such can claim to ...