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Saffron Opera Group’s Le nozze di Figaro at Saffron Hall on 25 February 2024

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SAFFRON OPERA GROUP IN THEIR TENTH ANNIVERSARY SEASON PRESENT MOZART’S SPARKLING COMEDY LE NOZZE DI FIGARO with a cast of internationally renowned stars and rising talents on Sunday 25 February 2024, at 2.30pm

After a dazzling and highly lauded performance of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier earlier in 2023, Saffron Opera Group (SOG) now turns its attention to the comedy which provided a major source of inspiration for Strauss: Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Having already had huge success with Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni, SOG thus now completes the cycle of the of the three ‘Da Ponte Operas’ (so named after their librettist Lorenzo da Ponte) and is delighted to announce the return of many audience-favourite singers – and some shining new talents – to their cast.

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2023-24 season

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra continues its 2023/24 season, which is supported by Season Sponsor Investec and filled with symphonic performances across the South West and beyond.

Kirill Karabits © Mark Allan

Highlights include performances under the baton of Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits in his final season, which concludes in a three-week celebration of music that both reflects on his tenure to date and the BSO’s ongoing commitment to repertoire from Karabits’s native Ukraine and its surrounding regions.

Kirill Karabits celebrates his 15-year tenure as Chief Conductor following a sensational relationship lasting a decade and a half. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s final season with Kirill Karabits as Chief Conductor began last autumn and sees the BSO celebrate a broad range of repertoire with Karabits, from the symphonies of Brahms, Bruckner and Borodin to rarities including a concert performance of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (8 May).

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Bampton Classical Opera in 2024

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Bampton Classical Opera 2024 Season

Giuseppe Gazzaniga, L’isola d’Alcina – Alcina’s Island (1772)

Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire – Friday 19, Saturday 20 July
Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire – Monday 26 August
The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex – Saturday 31 August
St John’s Smith Square, London – Friday 13 September

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Updated!: Further news on the future of English National Opera

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English National Opera and Greater Manchester announce plan for new home in city-region

English National Opera (ENO) and Greater Manchester are pleased to announce a new working partnership to develop a new home for the opera company.

The partnership will see ENO and Greater Manchester work together on plans to bring the company’s globally renowned cultural offer to a main base in the city-region by 2029.

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Symphony Orchestra of India returns to the UK this November and December

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Symphony Orchestra of India returns to the UK for eight-concert tour in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Coventry, Bradford, Croydon and Cambridge (29 November – 8 December 2023)

Performing European premiere of Zakir Hussain’s Triple Concerto and mix of Western classical works. Programmes to be conducted by Alpesh Chauhan and Richard Farnes, with soloists Zakir Hussain, Niladri Kumar and Rakesh Chaurasia, Pavel Kolesnikov and Marat Bisengaliev

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London’s Opera Holland Park in 2024

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Introducing Opera Holland Park’s 2024 Season, including current casting and booking dates

Comedies, tragedies and a cavalcade of deceptions and disguises

Characters from carnival, commedia dell’arte and classical myth tell stories of transformation, enchantment and revenge in Opera Holland Park’s 2024 Season. A diva confronts a corrupt chief of police in the grit and glamour of 1960s Rome. A barber plays puppet-master in Seville, outwitting his clients in an attempt to prevent an unwanted wedding. A Flemish knight must choose between vice and virtue, while a sea nymph tries to elude an amorous Sicilian cyclops. In London and Calabria, the arrival of travelling players leads to chaos. And in an elegant villa in Piedmont, a newly married couple navigate their first falling out.

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Hampshire’s The Grange Festival in 2024

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The Grange Festival celebrates its 2024 season with an exciting and eclectic mix of ballet, opera and jazz (6 June – 6 July)

The Grange Festival presents an opening night of dance followed by new productions of L’incoronazione di Poppea, Tosca and The Rake’s Progress and showcases the unique talents of vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Dan Tepfer

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Die Walküre takes flight at SJSS this November with The London Opera Company

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The London Opera Company’s Die Walküre at St John’s Smith Square on 25th November 

‘In a very short period of time The London Opera Company have shown themselves to be leaders in Wagner’ (OMH review)

Fans of Wagner’s epic tale of love, feuding families, betrayal and retribution are in for a treat on Saturday 25th November.

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