Festival 2025

Bedlam reigns at Longborough’s sparkling The Barber of Seville

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2025 [2] – Rossini, The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera / Elaine Kelly (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 8.6.2025. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s The Barber of Seville © Clive Barda

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Garsington’s delightful production of L’elisir d’amore captures its warm-hearted Italian spirit and comedy

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [2] – Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Chloe Rooke (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 7.6.2025. (CR)

[l-r] Oleksiy Palchykov (Nemorino), Madison Leonard (Adina) and Carles Pachon (Belcore) © Julian Guidera

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‘Eternal Light’: Summer Music in City Churches – 18 to 27 June 2025

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‘Eternal Light’ A series of concerts in the historic churches of the City of London: 18 – 27 June 2025 Venues: St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Fore Street, Barbican EC2Y 8DA St James Garlickhythe, Garlick Hill EC4V 2AF St Mary Abchurch, Abchurch Yard EC4N 7BA St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, Bishopsgate EC2M 3TL Kestrel Music presents its seventh annual festival, ‘Summer … Read more

Partnering with the Gewandhaus Quartet, Quatuor Danel’s rarely-heard Shostakovich is masterly

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GermanyGermany Shostakovich Festival Leipzig [7]: Quatuor Danel (Marc Danel [first violin], Gilles Millet [second violin], Vlad Bogdanas [viola], Yovan Markovitch [cello]), Gewandhaus Quartet (Frank-Michael Erben [first violin], Yun-Jin Cho [second violin], Vincent Aucante [viola], Jürnjakob Timm [cello]). Mendelssohn Hall, Gewandhaus, Leipzig, 18.5.2025. (GT)

Quatuor Danel © Emilian Tsubaki

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