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Tuesday, 26 August 2025

25 years of the special natural setting of Exmoor & Dartmoor: the Two Moors Festival celebrates

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South Molton Church This October the Two Moors Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary with events encompassing Exmoor (1-5 October 2025) a...

A milestone: Steel City Choristers' first international tour to Berlin and Leipzig

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Steel City Choristers performing at Berlin Cathedral Earlier this month, Steel City Choristers went on its first international tour - a week...
Saturday, 23 August 2025

Ravishing delight: Rebecca Meltzer tells the story of Handel's Semele with engaging clarity at Waterperry Opera with Hilary Cronin & Michael Lafferty

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Handel: Semele - Hilary Cronin & ensemble - Waterperry Opera Festival (Photo: Jennifer Hawthorn) Handel: Semele ; Hilary Cronin, Michae...
Friday, 22 August 2025

BBC Proms: A performance to treasure as Fabio Luisi & the Danish National Symphony Orchestra celebrate their centenary with Beethoven, Bent Sørensen & Anna Clyne

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Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi - BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall (Photo: BBC/Chris Christodoulou) Bent Sørensen: Evening La...

A final goodbye to this year's Salzburg Festival

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Theatre-goers leaving the Haus für Mozart with Festung Hohensalzburg in the background.   A final goodbye to this year's Salzburg Festiv...
Thursday, 21 August 2025

The sound of Carnival: in advance of this year's Notting Hill Carnival I chat to Eversely Mills the band manager of Metronomes Steel Orchestra about the sounds and traditions of steel bands

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The Notting Hill Carnival this year is from Saturday 23 August to Monday 25 August and a big feature, as ever, will be the Steel Bands wit...

Offenbach's Rhine fairies get to tread the boards at Battersea Arts Centre as Gothic Opera gives the UK stage premiere of Die Rheinnixen

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Offenbach wrote his four-act romantic opera, Les fées du Rhin in 1864, for the Hofoper in Vienna where it was performed in a German translat...

Colombian soprano Julieth Lozano gets into the spirit of the carnival for circus opera – Le Carnaval de Venise by Campra

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Julieth Lozano in rehearsal getting ready for her aerial moves…. Vache Baroque is celebrating its fifth anniversary by returning to its home...
Wednesday, 20 August 2025

The performers invested so much in the music that we were carried away: Raphaël Pichon & Pygmalion rethink Mozart's Zaide at the Salzburg Festival

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Mozart: Zaide - Lea Desandre, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Pygmalion - Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borrelli) Mozart: Zaide oder der Weg...
Tuesday, 19 August 2025

An astonishing piece of kinetic musical theatre: Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at Salzburg Festival, directed by Ulrich Rasche with Lisette Oropesa & Kate Lindsey

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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda - Bekhzod Davronov, Thomas Lehmann, Kate Lindsey - Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) Donizetti: Mar...
Monday, 18 August 2025

Travelling hopefully: defying age & ill health, Daniel Barenboim conducts his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Wagner, Mendelssohn & Beethoven at the Salzburg Festival

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Wagner: Siegfried Idyll - Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borell...
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Sunday, 17 August 2025

Youthful tragedy and transcendental mystery: Riccardo Muti & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Schubert & Bruckner at Salzburg Festival

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Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Riccardo Muti - Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival (Photo: SF/Marco Borelli) Schubert:  Symphony No. 4 ...
Saturday, 16 August 2025

Strange & intriguing: Dmitri Tcherniakov directs his first Baroque opera with Handel's Giulio Cesare in Salzburg

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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto - Robert Raso (Curio), Lucile Richardot (Cornelia), Yuriy Mynenko (Tolomeo), Andrey Zhilikhovsky (Achilla)...
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Award-winning Michael Morpurgo-based animated film, Kensuke’s Kingdom with score by Stuart Hancock now on BBC iPlayer

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The animated feature film Kensuke’s Kingdom had its British network TV premiere earlier this month on Sunday, 3 August on BBC One, which me...

Violinist Zoë Beyers to replace Jacqueline Shave and Thomas Gould as Leader of Britten Sinfonia

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Zoë Beyers leads Britten Sinfonia at Westminster Abbey (Photo: Shoël Stadlen) Britten Sinfonia has announced that violinist Zoë Beyers is to...

Pianist Cyrill Ibrahim joins World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens as artist in residence

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Cyrill Ibrahim From September 2025, pianist Cyrill Ibrahim will be the new artist in residence at World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens. A firm ...
Monday, 11 August 2025

Celebrating Barbara Hepworth: a new violin concerto by Nick Martin with Tamsin Waley-Cohen & Manchester Camerata

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Barbara Hepworth: Sphere with Inner Form , 1963, at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands 50 years after her death, a new viol...

Glasgow Cathedral Festival: celebrating the city's 850th anniversary with a poetic imagining of the story of St. Enoch, mother of the city's founder

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Evening concert at Glasgow Cathedral Festival  Glasgow Cathedral Festival returns from 18–21 September 2025, for its ninth edition bringing ...

Hearing Colour: classical music at the Royal Pavilion with a piano made for King George IV

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A detail of A C Pugin’s drawing of the Entrance Hall, Brighton Pavilion c1821 English piano maker Thomas Tomkison (c1764-1853) made a succe...
Saturday, 9 August 2025

Going where no other company has dared: Green Opera gives the stage premiere of Joubert's Jane Eyre in a full-blooded performance at Grimeborn Festival

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Joubert: Jane Eyre - Laura Mekhail (Jane) - Green Opera at Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre - (Photo: Camilla Greenwell) John Joubert: Ja...