Ballet Icons Gala returns on 9 March 2025 at the London Coliseum

BALLET ICONS GALA IN 2025 WILL BE A MESMERIZING CELEBRATION OF DANCE AND WILL HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF THE GLOBAL ENVIROMENTAL CRISIS

Globally recognized Ballet Icons Gala is set to enchant audiences once again at the London Coliseum on 9 March 2025. A global highlight on the ballet calendar, this much-anticipated event promises an unforgettable evening, celebrating the unparalleled beauty of classical and contemporary ballet.

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Some musical highlights of Musicus Fest 2024 in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s Musicus Fest 2024 in Hong Kong

In 2010, a group of music enthusiasts in Hong Kong founded the Musicus Society. Under the artistic direction of Trey Lee, the organization has become an integral part of the cultural life of this Asian metropolis over the last 15 years.

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Royal Ballet and Opera and The Metropolitan Opera to widen its cinema audience in the UK and US

Royal Ballet and Opera and The Metropolitan Opera join forces with new cinema collaboration

First of its kind collaboration to widen access to world-class ballet and opera across the UK and US

Broadcasts of the Met’s production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Royal Ballet’s classic, The Nutcracker

Click here for RBO and here for the Met and find your local cinema screening

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The 2025 Musikfest Berlin takes place from 30 August to 23 September

Musikfest Berlin 2025: Tickets for the Initial Concert Highlights Available Now

The 2025 Musikfest Berlin will take place from 30 August to 23 September, hosted by Berliner Festspiele in co-operation with the Foundation Berliner Philharmoniker. Eight concerts featuring international guest orchestras from the Netherlands, France and Italy have been announced, and tickets can be purchased now as part of a promotion campaign.

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The Cambridge University Schola Cantorum’s Carol Concert at London’s St Mary le Bow on 11 December

The Cambridge University Schola Cantorum: A New Choir For Cambridge University

Students from Cambridge University are proud to present the unprecedented foundation of The Cambridge University Schola Cantorum.  While The University Of Cambridge’s individual college choirs have been widely celebrated throughout the world, there has never before been a liturgical choir under the University’s banner, nor a University choir with national and international prestige:  A cross-college ensemble of the Cambridge’s most talented singers and an elite group of vocalists from the University – the equivalent of a sporting blue for music in the choral tradition.

Next event – Carol Concert on Wednesday 11 December 2024 at St Mary le Bow, Cheapside, London. For more information click here.

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The Covent Garden Sinfonietta return to Vienna’s Musikverein with more life-affirming music

Refinement to the most delicate lyrical detail

The Covent Garden Sinfonietta, under the baton of its maestro Daniel Oren, made the Wiener Musikverein resonate with a two-night performance on 10 and 12 November. The siblings Adam Gutseriev (piano) and Dali Gutserieva (cello) excelled as soloists.

Pianist Adam Gutseriev

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English National Opera launches plans for a new partnership with Greater Manchester

English National Opera (ENO) announced the first wave of plans for a major new partnership between the company and the city-region of Greater Manchester for the next three years, enabling ENO to be firmly established within Greater Manchester by 2029. NEW IMMERSIVE PRODUCTION OF PHILIP GLASS AND ROBERT WILSON’S EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH UK PREMIERE … Read more

First public performance of Imogen Holst’s Violin Concert at Holborn’s St Andrew’s Church on 24 November

Discovery of a lost British concerto – Violinist Midori Komachi’s journey from the archives to a London performance and broadcasts in Tokyo

Midori Komachi (©Shizuki Kumanda) Imogen Holst (© George C. Beresford)

Based between London and Tokyo, violinist, writer and composer, Midori Komachi, is reviving a neglected British violin concerto by Imogen Holst with a performance in London and live broadcast and lecture recital in Japan, as part of her latest project bridging UK and Japanese cultures through music. As soloist, Komachi will give the First Public Performance with the Elgar Sinfonia conducted by Adrian Brown at St Andrew’s Church, Holborn, London at 16:30, Sunday 24 November 2024.

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