Today’s Young People Enjoy Performing Sullivan’s Music

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance: Soloists and Chorus of the Gilbert & Sullivan Festival Youth Production / Andrew Nicklin (Musical Director), Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate, 15.8.2015 (RJW)

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G&S Pirates of Penzance,br/>photo credit: Viv Hamilton

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Elementary, My Dear Prommers! Sherlock Holmes Celebrated at the BBC Proms

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Prom 41_CR_BBC_Chris Christodoulou

Prom 41: Sherlock Holmes a Musical Mind: Mark Sweet and Mark Gatiss (presenters), Jack Liebeck (violin), Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), Stile Antico, BBC Concert Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 16.8.2015. (JPr)

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St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s Swan Lake a Fairy Tale Romp

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Irina Kolesnikova London Season –  Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake: Soloists, corps de ballet, The St Petersburg Ballet Theatre and Orchestra / Timor Gorkovenko (conductor). London Coliseum, 13.8.2015. (JPr)

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Irina Kolesnikova as Odette (c) The St Petersburg Ballet Theatre

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Making Parsifal Accessible to the Younger Generation

GermanyGermany  Bayreuth Festival 2015[1] Richard Wagner für Kinder – Parsifal: Soloists and Musicians of the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder) / Boris Schäfer. (conducor), Probebühne IV, Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 2.8.2013. (JPr)

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(c) Jörg Schulze – the Flowermaidens in Richard Wagner für Kinder – Parsifal

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