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Stunning realisation of Messiaen’s visionary Saint François d’Assise at the Salzburg Festival

26/08/202621/08/2026 by Mark Berry

Austria Salzburg Festival 2026 [5] – Messiaen, Saint François d’Assise: Soloists, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera (chorus director: Jozef Chabroň), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Maxime Pascal (conductor). Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 23.8.2026. (MB)

Messiaen’s *Saint François d’Assise* at the Salzburg Festival © SF/Monika Rittershaus

A thrilling Symphonie fantastique at the Proms from the National Youth Orchestra and Thomas Adès

11/08/202609/08/2026 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom BBC Proms 2026 [13] – Liszt, Adès, and Berlioz: National Youth Orchestra / Thomas Adès (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 8.8.2026. (MB)

Thomas Adès conducts the National Youth Orchestra © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

Musicians ill-served by a dreadful, uncomprehending ‘AI’ Ring cycle production at Bayreuth

04/08/202604/08/2026 by Mark Berry

Germany Bayreuth Festival 2026 [5] – Wagner, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Christian Thielemann (conductor). Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 28.7. – 1.8.2026. (MB)

This Fliegende Holländer revival proves quite a tonic after the anti-human beginning to the ‘AI’-Ring

30/07/202630/07/2026 by Mark Berry

Germany Bayreuth Festival 2026 [4] – Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Oksana Lyniv (conductor). Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 29.7.2026. (MB)

Benjamin Bruns (Erik) and Elisabeth Teige (Senta) © BF/Enrico Nawrath

Bayreuth’s AI Das Rheingold: Wagner, musicians, audience and the world deserves better

28/07/202628/07/2026 by Mark Berry

Germany Bayreuth Festival 2026 [2] – Wagner, Das Rheingold: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra / Christian Thielemann (conductor). Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 27.7.2026. (MB)

Bayreuth’s AI *Das Rheingold* © Enrico Nawrath

The Bayreuth Rienzi we saw and heard was ultimately an opportunity for which to be grateful.

28/07/202628/07/2026 by Mark Berry

Germany Bayreuth Festival 2026 [1] – Wagner, Rienzi: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor). Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 26.7.2026. (MB)

Gabriela Scherer (Irene) and Jennifer Holloway (Adriano) © BF/Enrico Nawrath

A programme of cultural encounters and mystical unity of human experience from Sulayman and Shibe

18/07/202617/07/2026 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom ‘Broken Branches’ – Various: Karim Sulayman (tenor), Sean Shibe (guitar). Wigmore Hall, London, 14.7.2026. (MB)

Sean Shibe (guitar) and Karim Sulayman (tenor) at the Wigmore Hall © Darius Weinberg/WH

A depressingly ill-conceived production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Berlin

10/07/202609/07/2026 by Mark Berry

Germany Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Soloists, Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka), Staatskapelle Berlin / Thomas Guggeis (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 5.7.2026. (MB)

Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s *Die Entführung aus dem Serail* © Stephan Rabold

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