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Chelsea Opera Group present Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito One of Mozart’s last works, reputedly written in 18 days to mark the crowning in Prague in 1791 of Leopold II as King of Bohemia. The action is set in Rome in the time of the emperor Titus who ruled from AD 79-81. The story is … Read more
Royal Opera House announces 2023-2024 international Cinema Season
13 productions broadcast to over 500 UK cinemas
8 productions broadcast to 1,300 cinemas across the world
The Royal Opera House’s first cinema collaboration –
with Sadler’s Wells and Universal Music UK
A truly international roster of talent,
including Jonas Kaufmann and Sondra Radvanovsky
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47th ST MAGNUS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL – Friday 16 June to Friday 23 June
Set in Orkney’s incredible landscape in the light nights of midsummer, the St Magnus Festival carves out a beautiful and distinct shape in the UK’s festivals landscape.
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Germany Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 2023-24 Season Presentation with Sir Simon Rattle: Nikolaus Pont (orchestra manager) and Sir Simon Rattle (chief conductor). Munich, 17.5.2023. (RF)
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra presented its programme for the 2023-34 season, the first under the long-awaited musical direction of Sir Simon Rattle. In a press conference together with orchestra manager Nikolaus Pont it was announced that Rattle will conduct a wide range of subscription concerts, special concerts, a ‘Musica Viva’ concert, the orchestra academy and the Bavarian Youth Orchestra. He will also be scouring the Bavarian countryside for five brass bands to play in a ‘Symphonischer Hoagascht’ together with the BRSO. He said that he has felt very much at home with the orchestra since first conducting it in 2010. The press conference made it clear that Rattle will be involved in all possible activities, including outreach and education.
The English National Opera (ENO) announces our 2023/24 main stage season
Following a difficult six months for the company beginning with the Arts Council’s removal of its National Portfolio status and a delay in the confirmation of future funding, the ENO returns with an opera season showcasing the work the company is most renowned for.
English National Ballet’s Cinderella in-the-round at Royal Albert Hall Thursday from 15 – Sunday 25 June 2023
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English National Ballet returns to Royal Albert Hall from 15 – 25 June 2023 to present Cinderella in-the-round by award winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon.
The Met Orchestra to embark on international tour in June 2023, its first in more than 20 years
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to lead orchestra with stops in Paris, London, and Baden-Baden
Concerts to feature Met stars Angel Blue, Joyce DiDonato, and Russell Thomas
Works include Act IV of Verdi’s Otello, selections from Berlioz’s Les Troyens, and music by Bernstein, Matthew Aucoin, and Tchaikovsky
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2023: 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
SUMMER PRODUCTION – UK première Antonio Salieri’s ‘At the Venice Fair’ (La fiera di Venezia) (1772)
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: 21, 22 July; Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: 28 August; St John’s Smith Square, London: 13 September
Exhibition of costumes, props and artefacts celebrating 30 years of Bampton Classical Opera: Bampton Community Archive, Old Grammar School, Church View, Bampton OX18 2NE – 13 June-6 August, every day 10-4pm, admission free, with accompanying book for sale written by Jeremy Gray.
F J Haydn double-bill ‘The Diva’/’The Apothecary’ – 15 June, 6.30pm
The Northern Aldborough Festival 2023: St. Andrew’s Church, Aldborough, YO51 9ER
F J Haydn’s ‘The Apothecary’ – 9 September.
The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 6LU
Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers’ Competition 2023
Public Final 25th November: The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford, OX2 6UD
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