Festivals

Much to admire at Aix about Les Talens Lyriques’s Bach cantatas

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FranceFrance Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival [4] – Bach: Anna El-Khashem (soprano), Mari Askvik (alto), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Adrien Fournaison (bass), Namur Chamber Choir, Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 20.4.2025. (CC)

Tenor Nick Pritchard and conductor Christophe Rousset © Caroline Doutre/Festival de Pâques

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Aix’s carefully programmed Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Mozart is an afternoon of great beauty and power

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FranceFrance Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival [3] – Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Grand Concert pour les Aixois: The Strings of Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra / Gábor Takács-Nagy (conductor). Cathédale Saint-Saveur, Aix-en-Provence, France, 20.4.2025. (CC)

Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts The Strings of Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra © Caroline Doutre/Festival de Pâques

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Memorable Chan, Capuçon and OSR concert at Aix, with moments of magic beyond count in Prokofiev

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FranceFrance Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival [2]: Ogonek, R. Strauss, Prokofiev: Renaud Capuçon (violin), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Elim Chan (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 19.4.2025. (CC)

Elim Chan conducts the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande © Caroline Doutre/Festival de Pâques

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Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic elevate Madama Butterfly in Baden-Baden

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GermanyGermany Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, Tschechischer Philharmonischer Chor Brünn, Berliner Philharmoniker / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Festpielhaus Baden-Baden, 20.4.2025. (AL-L)

Eleonora Burrato (Cio-Cio-San) and Teresa Iervolino (Suzuki) © Monika Rittershaus

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Notable young talent on violin, flute, and viola excel at Aix

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FranceFrance Ravel, Fauré, Saint-Saëns – Génération @ Aix: Anneleen Lenaerts (harp/mentor), Thomas Briant (violin), Sara Ferrández (viola), Alberto Navarra (flute). Théâtre du Jeu de Palme, Aix-en-Provence, 19.4.2025. (CC)

[Clockwise from l] Anneleen Lenaerts, Thomas Briant, Sara Ferrández and Alberto Navarra

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Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina at the Salzburg Easter Festival

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AustriaAustria Osterfestspiele Salzburg 2025 – Mussorgsky, Khovanshchina: Soloists, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Bachchor Salzburg, Salzburger Festspiele and Theater Kinderchor, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 12.4.2025. (AL-L)

Khovanshchina at the Salzburg Easter Festival 2025 © Inés Bacher

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Edinburgh International Festival 2025 – 1 to 24 August

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Edinburgh International Festival 2025
Breaks Boundaries in a Year Exploring ‘The Truth We Seek’

[l-r] Laura Beth Salter (Kinnaris Quintet), Festival Director Nicola Benedetti and Mia Habis (Dance People) © Laurence Winram

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Edinburgh International Festival’s 2025 programme offers opportunities to experience world-class artists in thought-provoking and unconventional ways – including an eight-hour choral extravaganza, a distinctive outdoor promenade dance piece and a circus infused opera. Audiences can also get involved in many Festival performances, from an outdoor mass-singalong to interactive concerts where the audience chooses the repertoire.

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