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

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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Opera Holland Park’s 2025 Season opens on 27 May

Opera Holland Park’s 2025 Season

New productions of two dark Gothic fantasies. The return of an explosive contemporary classic. Sentiment and satire in two co-productions with Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte. A succession of significant role and house debuts, a recital series exploring the connections between opera and song, and a revival of a much-loved tragedy of first and last love.

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Lloyd’s Choir premieres Jacques Cohen’s new choral work on 27 March at St Giles Cripplegate Church

LLOYD’S CHOIR SPRING 2025 CONCERT WILL FEATURE PREMIERE OF NEW WORK BY JACQUES COHEN, COMMEMORATING THE SINKING OF HMT LANCASTRIA DURING WORLD WAR II

Lloyd’s Choir Spring Concert 27 March 2025, 7pm – St Giles Cripplegate Church, Fore Street, London, EC2Y 8DA

Lloyd’s Choir
Cohen Ensemble
Jacques Cohen (conductor and music director)

Mendelssohn – Psalm 114
Jacques Cohen – ‘Lancastria’
Rossini – Stabat Mater

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Bampton Classical Opera in 2025

BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2025
Antonio Salieri La locandiera (‘The Landlady’) (1773)

Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: Friday 18, Saturday 19 July
Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: Monday 25 August
The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex: Saturday 6 September
London performance to be announced

For more information CLICK HERE.

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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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The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 – 21 to 30 August

The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 – Opera for Everyone

The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 (full details CLICK HERE) will be ten days of Operas, Concerts, and Education Workshops throughout the most beautiful area of Britain. Following our Opera Festivals in 2021 and 2023, both critically acclaimed by international publications, the 2025 Festival will be even more exciting, engaging, and accessible: we will show that Opera is for everyone, and for everywhere.

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