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Month: January 2025

Bryn Terfel conducts his first masterclass in Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio reboot

23/01/2025 by Rick Perdian

United StatesUnited States SongStudio 2025: Various, Anthony Roth Costanzo (Creative Advisor), Renée Fleming (soprano), Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Hartmut Höll (piano). Carnegie Hall, New York, 13-19.1.2025. (RP)

Anthony Roth Costanzo © Chris Lee

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Seven Otto Schenk streams from Vienna State Opera free until 31 January as a tribute

06/02/202523/01/2025 by AUTHOR

IN MEMORIAM OTTO SCHENK

Otto Schenk during a rehearsal for Der Rosenkavalier, 2010 © Wiener Staatsoper / Michael Pöhn

All streams are available to you free of charge from Friday, 24 January at 7 pm until Friday, 31 January at 7 pm via the following link – CLICK HERE.

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Handel’s Rodelinda revival at Oper Frankfurt: a modern lens on a Baroque drama

23/01/2025 by Edward Sava-Segal

GermanyGermany Handel, Rodelinda: Soloists, Orchestra of the Frankfurt Opera / Simone Di Felice (conductor). Frankfurt Opera, 19.1.2025. (ES-S)

Irene Madrid (Flavio, under the table), Josh Lovell (Grimoaldo), and Zanda Švēde (Eduige) © Barbara Aumüller

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Passions dominate Hamburg’s stirring Der fliegende Holländer

23/01/2025 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

GermanyGermany Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano (conductor). Hamburg State Opera, 19.1.2024. (DM-D)

Der fliegende Holländer previously at Hamburg State Opera © Hans Jörg Michel

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Germany’s National Orchestra bring colour and musical virtuosity to a wintry Edinburgh

23/01/202522/01/2025 by Gregor Tassie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Britten, Gershwin, Holst: Wayne Marshall (soloist, conductor), German National Orchestra, German-British Choir Academy. Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 19.1.2025. (GT)

German National Orchestra perform at the Usher Hall under conductor Wayne Marshall © Greg Macvean

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Noah Zhou’s tremendous Wigmore Hall recital… even with the minor quibble

23/01/202522/01/2025 by Marc Bridle

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rachmaninoff, Clementi, Liszt: Noah Zhou (piano). Wigmore Hall, 15.1.2025. (MBr)

Noah Zhou

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NOVO Quartet at the Wigmore Hall show they are going from strength to strength

21/01/2025 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven: NOVO Quartet. Wigmore Hall, London, 19.1.2025. (CC)

NOVO Quartet rehearsing at the Wigmore Hall

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WNO Orchestra celebrate style hongrois in their New Year’s Concert

21/01/2025 by Lucy Jeffery

United KingdomUnited Kingdom A New Year’s Celebration: WNO Orchestra / David Adams (violin, leader, concertmaster) and Associate Artists (Erin Rossington, soprano, and William Stevens, bass). Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 17.1.2025. (LJ)

WNO Orchestra

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