Festivals

Charming Purcell evening opens the winter season of the Stoke Newington Early Music Festival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom One Charming Night – Purcell, Lully: Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Toby Carr (lute), Sarah Sexton (violin), Sarah Moffat (violin), Rachel Stott (tenor viola), Sarah McMahon (violoncello). Stoke Newington Old Church, London, 18.1.2026 (JR)

One Charming Night at Stoke Newington Old Church

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‘E Pluribus Unum’ festival at the Boston Symphony: Loggins-Hull, Bernstein and Tchaikovsky

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United StatesUnited States Various: Lorna McGhee (flute), Seong-Jin Cho (piano), Tanglewood Festival Chorus (guest conductor: Jean-Sébastien Vallée), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor). Symphony Hall, Boston, 15.1.2026. (LV)

Flutist Lorna McGhee and conductor Andris Nelsons in Allison Loggins-Hull’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni © Hilary Scott

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Chamber music forged in performance: Dvořák and Brahms at ‘WinterFest 2026’

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United StatesUnited States ‘WinterFest 2026’ [3] – Dvořák, Brahms: Musicians of the Lyrica program. Lyrica Boston, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 11.1.2026. (LV)

Thompson Wang, May Tang, Zac Fung, Hannah Sohn and Aleksandre Roderick-Lorenz play Brahms’s String Quintet © Laurence Vittes

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Creative design and collaborative artistry make Prototype’s Precipice a triumph of small-production opera

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United StatesUnited States Prototype Festival 2026 [2] – Rima Fand, Precipice: Bass string quintet, piano & mandolin / Mila Henry (music director). La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, 9.1.2026. (DS)

Daisy Press and Alison Tolan-Mee in Precipice © Maria Baranova

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Trio Laval and the art of chamber music at Lyrica Boston’s ‘WinterFest 2026’

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United StatesUnited States ‘WinterFest 2026’ [1] – Martin, Dvořák: Trio Laval (Jordan Bartel [violín], Sarina Zhang [cello], Sean Terada Yang [piano]. Lyrica Boston, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 9.1.2026. (LV)

Trio Laval at Lyrica Boston’s ‘WinterFest 2026’ © Hannah Jieun Sohn

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An outstanding account of Handel’s Deidamia at Wexford

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IrelandIreland Wexford Festival Opera 2025 [3] – Handel, Deidamia: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / George Petrou (conductor). O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, 26.10.2925. (RB)

Bruno de Sá (l, Achilles) and Sophie Junker (c, Deidamia) and members of the cast of Deidamia © Pádraig Grant

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An excellent Wexford performance cannot disguise the flaws in Delius’s The Magic Fountain

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IrelandIreland Wexford Festival Opera 2025 [2] – Delius, The Magic Fountain: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Francesco Cilluffo (conductor). O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, 25.10.2025. (RB)

Wexford Festival Opera’s The Magic Fountain © Pádraig Grant

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