Month: April 2025

First-rate Dublin concert of Dessner and Stravinsky featuring great playing from the soloists and the NSO

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IrelandIreland Bryce Dessner, Stravinsky: Bryce Dessner and David Chalmin (guitars), Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos), National Symphony Orchestra / André de Ridder (conductor). National Concert Hall, Dublin, 11.4.2025. (RB)

André de Ridder conducts pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque and the NSO in Bryce Dessner’s Concerto for Two Pianos

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Edinburgh International Festival 2025 – 1 to 24 August

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Edinburgh International Festival 2025
Breaks Boundaries in a Year Exploring ‘The Truth We Seek’

[l-r] Laura Beth Salter (Kinnaris Quintet), Festival Director Nicola Benedetti and Mia Habis (Dance People) © Laurence Winram

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Edinburgh International Festival’s 2025 programme offers opportunities to experience world-class artists in thought-provoking and unconventional ways – including an eight-hour choral extravaganza, a distinctive outdoor promenade dance piece and a circus infused opera. Audiences can also get involved in many Festival performances, from an outdoor mass-singalong to interactive concerts where the audience chooses the repertoire.

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Bampton Classical Opera in 2025

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BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2025
Antonio Salieri La locandiera (‘The Landlady’) (1773)

READ OUR REVIEW HERE

Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday 18, Saturday 19 July
Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: Monday 25 August
The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex: Saturday 6 September
Smith Square Hall, London SW1: Tuesday 16 September

For more information CLICK HERE.

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