Year: 2025

Rouvali triumphs in a sparkling ‘Summers at Severance’ program in Cleveland

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United StatesUnited States ‘Summers at Severance’ 2025 [2]: Cleveland Orchestra / Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 17.7.2025. (MSJ)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Cleveland Orchestra © Aireonna McCall-Dube/TCO

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Waterperry Opera Festival in 2025 and its new CEO and Artistic Director John Savourin

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Waterperry Opera Festival appoints John Savournin as new CEO and Artistic Director 

2025 biggest season so far, Handel’s Semele transfers to Opera Holland Park

The Board of Trustees at Waterperry Opera Festival is delighted to announce that John Savournin has been appointed as CEO and Artistic Director with effect from 1 September 2025.

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Cleveland opens Blossom with Osmo Vänskä leading piercing performances of mythical epics

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United StatesUnited States Blossom Music Festival 2025 [1]: Shelén Hughes (soprano), Reginald Mobley (countertenor), John Brancy (baritone), Blossom Festival Chorus, Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus, Cleveland Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, 12.7.2025. (MSJ)

Osmo Vänskä conducts Carmina Burana with soloists (from l) Reginald Mobley, John Brancy and Shelén Hughes © Roger Mastroianni/TCO

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In Eugene Onegin Wild Arts’s greatest strength is that it acts as a collective not a collection of starry individuals

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin (arr. Orlando Jopling, sung in English translation by Siofra Dromgoole): Soloists, The Wild Arts Ensemble / Otis Lineham (conductor). (conductor). Thaxted Parish Church, Essex, 12.7.2025. (CC)

Xavier Hetherington (Lensky) and Timothy Nelson (Onegin) © Allan Titmuss

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