Festival 2024

Cumbria Opera Group’s brand new work Kings, Witches, Lovers and Souls showcases the region’s mythic past

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jen Hartley, Kings, Witches, Lovers and Souls: Eleanor McIntosh (soprano), Anne Elizabeth Cooper (mezzo-soprano), Johnny Hill (baritone), Jonny Danciger (director), Cumbria Youth Chorus, Cumbria Opera Group / Joe Davies & Alastair Burton (co-musical directors), Penrith Playhouse, 31.8.2024. (SRT)

Eleanor McIntosh (soprano), Anne Elizabeth Cooper (mezzo-soprano), Johnny Hill (baritone) and members of Cumbria Opera Group © Christopher Tribble

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An important nineteenth-century voice given his Salzburg due by Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2024 [11] – Smetana: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 26.8.2024. (MB)

Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Kirill Petrenko at the Salzburg Festival 2024 © SF/Marco Borrelli

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An excellent cast brings Peter Sellars’s Salzburg production of The Gambler vividly to life

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2024 [10] – Prokofiev, The Gambler: Soloists, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Timur Zangiev (conductor). Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 25.8.2024. (MB)

[l-r] Sean Panikkar (Alexey), Violeta Urmana (Babulenka) and Asmik Grigorian (Polina) © SF/Ruth Walz)

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For all the power of Rihab Chaieb’s (anti-)hero, this was a mixed Glyndebourne Carmen at the Proms

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom PROM 52 – Bizet, Carmen from Glyndebourne: Soloists, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Anja Bihlmaier (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 29.8.2024. (CC)

Bizet’s Carmen from Glyndebourne at the BBC Proms © BBC/Andy Paradise

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A blazing Glagolitic Mass from Hrůša and the Czech Philharmonic at the Proms

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom PROM 50 – Kaprálová, Dvořák, Janáček: Mao Fujita (piano), Corinne Winters (soprano), Bella Adamova (mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), Pavel Švingr (bass), Christian Schmitt (organ), Prague Philharmonic Choir (choirmaster Lukáš Vasilek), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Jakub Hrůša (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 28.8.2024. (CK)

Jakub Hrůša conducts pianist Mao Fujita and the Czech Philharmonic © BBC/Andy Paradise

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