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Wednesday, 19 March 2025

The Uncanny Things Trilogy : Virtually Opera's trilogy of interactive, immersive operas created by Leo Doulton

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Come Bargain with Uncanny Things - Virtually Opera, COLAB Tower (Photo: Claire Shovelton) In September last year I interviewed director and...

Celebrating Rodelinda: Garsington Opera and the Handel Hendrix House mark 300 years since the premiere of Handel's opera

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A caricature of a performance of Handel's Flavio (from 1723) featuring Senesino and Francesca Cuzzoni with Berenstadt (far right) Hande...
Tuesday, 18 March 2025

The Truth We Seek: Edinburgh International Festival 2025, Suor Angelica, La Clemenza di Tito, Mary Queen of Scots, Taverner's The Veil of the Temple & a focus on Poland

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Nicola Benedetti (Photo: Laurence Winram) The full programme for this year's Edinburgh International Festival has been released, the thi...

Pegasus Opera's mentoring programme in association with Glyndebourne returns

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Pegasus Opera's mentoring programme with Danielle de Niese in 2024 Pegasus Opera launched its opera mentoring programme in 2020 in respo...

A missed opportunity: Christoph Marthaler's reworking of Weber's iconic Der Freischütz redeemed by strong musical performances from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp

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Weber: Der Freischütz - The Wolf's Glen Scene - Ilker Arcayürek, Manuel Winckhler - Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Photo: Annemie Augustijns)...
Friday, 14 March 2025

Musical Moves: Guy Verrall-Withers, co-founder and artistic director of Waterperry Opera Festival, becomes director of audiences & impact at The Grange Festival

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Rebecca Meltzer, Bertie Baigent & Guy Verrall-Withers with the Waterperry Opera Festival team in 2024 The arts administration world is r...
Thursday, 13 March 2025

Celebrating 80 years: Cheltenham Music Festival with new music from Deborah Pritchard & Anna Semple, alongside music from the first festival

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Cheltenham Music Festival 2023 Established in 1945 in the months following the Second World War, the Cheltenham Music Festival is celebratin...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Make Ethics Matter: Conway Hall's annual Ethical Gala with Songhaven receiving the Ethical Award, celebrating Ukrainian students from LPAM, and solo flautist Daniel Shao

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Conway Hall Ethical Award: recipient Vivien Connacher and members of Songhaven with Conway Hall's Carmen D'Cruz Last week (6 March 2...

Power and poetry: all-Prokofiev programme from Igor Levit, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer at Royal Festival Hall

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Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes - Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra - Southbank Centre (Photo: Pete Woodhead for the Sout...
Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Stylistic irreverence & eclecticism: Zygmund de Somogyi & Temporal Harmonies at Wigmore Hall

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Zygmund de Somogyi Composer, interdisciplinary artist and writer Zygmund de Somogyi (Zyggy) is one of eight composers on the 2025 Royal Phi...

Mozart to Mary Poppins: Nine days of masterclasses and performances, the Oxford Piano Festival

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Andrey Gugnin Nine days of masterclasses and performances by renowned pianists, the Oxford Piano Festival returns from 26 July to 3 August 2...

EMPOWER: Women Changing Music

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EMPOWER: Female Musical Icons is an evening of performances and conversation, celebrating the breadth and diversity of female music, at Kin...
Monday, 10 March 2025

A dip into festival history with the return of Thomas' Hamlet, Mozart in lighter mode, four new operas, the new Buxton Festival Orchestra: Buxton International Festival 2025

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Buxton Opera House festival time. Credit Buxton International Festival Having launched in 1979 with a production of Donizetti's Lucia di...

The disc is worth getting for the Liszt; throw in the Holmès and de Grandval and you have a winner - le vase brisé from Thomas Elwin & Lana Bode

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le vase brisé: Hahn, Augusta Holmès, Liszt, Duparc, Lili Boulanger, Sir Paulo Tosti, Clemence de Grandval, Pauline Viardot, Bellini; Thomas...
Saturday, 8 March 2025

Everyone in the group feels strongly about it: Harry Christophers introduces The Sixteen's 25th Choral Pilgrimage, Angel of Peace

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Harry Christophers & The Sixteen in rehearsal - 2024 (Photo: Johnny Millar) Harry Christophers and The Sixteen embark on their 25th Ch...
Friday, 7 March 2025

The cast were clearly having fun whilst the plot was made satisfyingly coherent: Mozart's The Magic Flute from Charles Court Opera

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Mozart: The Magic Flute - Matthew Kellett - Charles Court Opera (Photo: Bill Knight) Mozart: The Magic Flute; Matthew Kellett, Alison Lang...
Tuesday, 4 March 2025

In case you missed it

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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...

Behind the Music: hear me live at the German YMCA in London

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The German YMCA in London has a lively programme of events including regular music related talks and performances, and their March programm...

The annual Swaledale Festival of Music and the Arts blazes a cultural trail for the North Yorkshire Dales

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Bringing music and the arts to the three most northerly Yorkshire Dales notably Swaledale, Wensleydale and Arkengarthdale, the Swaledale Fes...
Monday, 3 March 2025

Symphonic Bach: the St Matthew Passion in the glorious Sheldonian Theatre made notable by some strong individual performances

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The Berlin Singakademie building, designed by Carl Theodor Ottmer, 1825-1827, now Maxim Gorki Theater painting by Eduard Gaertner, 1843 Bach...