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Opera North in 2025/26

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Opera North’s new season celebrating talent, creativity and storytelling

New productions of Handel’s Susanna in collaboration with Phoenix Dance Theatre and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro directed by Louisa Muller

Return of two much-loved favourites conducted by Opera North Music Director Garry Walker: Puccini’s La bohème and Britten’s Peter Grimes

Contemporary ‘sort of opera’ Pass the Spoon in the Howard Assembly Room

Judith Weir’s The Secret of the Black Spider performed by the Opera North Youth Company

New interactive Big Opera Mystery to introduce opera to young children and their families

New partnership with Nevill Holt Festival in Leicestershire

For all the dates of the 2025-2026 season and how to book your tickets CLICK HERE

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English National Ballet in 2025/26 and other recent news

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English National Ballet announces its 2025-2026 Season 

English National Ballet offers a diverse programme of work, opening up the possibilities of ballet
Company to perform works by Martha Graham and Crystal Pite for the first time
World premiere from rising choreographic talent, Kameron N. Saunders
Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty revived with national tour and first Royal Albert Hall performances
Increased national touring as ENB takes innovative, new programme to Theatre Royal Plymouth
Akram Khan’s Giselle marks 10th anniversary with first performances at the London Coliseum
Extensive programme of creative health, learning and participation offered throughout the season

For more information and to book tickets  CLICK HERE.

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Opera Rara’s Donizetti Song Project’s recent Cadogan Hall recital: Watch the stream now on YouTube

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DONIZETTI SONG PROJECT: MICHAEL SPYRES & MARIE-NICOLE LEMIEUX – VOLS. 3&4 (ORR256&257) – release date: Friday 21 February

LONDON RECITAL – Monday 10 March, 7pm at Cadogan Hall

WATCH NOW ON OPERA’S RARA’s YOUTUBE (available 30 days from 16 March)

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Oxford Opera Company stage Puccini’s Tosca at Oxford Playhouse – 28 & 29 March

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Oxford Opera Company’s TOSCA at the OXFORD PLAYHOUSE
Friday 28 & Saturday 29 March 2025 

Oxford Playhouse is excited to announce a brand-new production of Puccini’s iconic opera Tosca, presented by Oxford Opera Company.

Following the success of their 2022 production of The Magic Flute, the company will return to The Playhouse stage on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 March with a fresh take on Puccini’s classic opera. The brand-new production will be sung in English and will feature a new translation commissioned exclusively for the company.  

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The Brentwood School’s International Music Competition launches in 2025

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Brentwood School proudly announces the launch of the First Brentwood International Music Competition, a landmark initiative designed to attract and celebrate the world’s most talented young musicians. This exciting new venture marks a significant milestone for the school’s Specialist Music Programme, which has already demonstrated exceptional promise in its inaugural term.

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Pierre Audi introduces the 77th edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (4 – 21 July 2025)

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The 77th edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence from 4 – 21 July 2025

The metamorphosis of Calisto, the reincarnation of Buddha, the transformation of Louise, the protean Don Giovanni… The focus of the 2025 edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (for more information click here) is clearly on the inexorable mutability of all things and the perpetual reinvention of the self. ‘There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature’ says Ovid in his Metamorphoses; and this is reflected in Cavalli’s La Calisto, which depicts a fascinating continuum between nature, mankind and the gods.

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