Festivals – Page 33 – Seen and Heard International

Scottish Ballet’s new Mary, Queen of Scots at the EIF tells a well-trodden story in their own, powerful way

18/08/2025 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival [9] – Mary, Queen of Scots: Soloists, Company and Orchestra of Scottish Ballet / Martin Yates (conductor). Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 16.8.2025. (SRT)

Evan Loudon (Darnley) and Roseanna Leney (Mary) © Andy Ross

Ben Grosvenor and the BBC NOW fill the Royal Albert Hall with a collage of sounds

17/08/2025 by Lucy Jeffery

United Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [15] – Gubaidulina, Ravel, Shostakovich: Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Kostas Smoriginas (bass-baritone), BBC National Chorus of Wales (chorus master: Adrian Partington), Synergy Vocals, BBC Orchestra of Wales / Ryan Bancroft (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 15.8.2025. (LJ)

The EIF now relies more on concert opera, but if it’s all as good as Suor Angelica there’s no complaint

17/08/2025 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2025 [8]: Puccini, de Sabata: Soloists, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, RSNO Youth Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 16.8.2025. (SRT)

London Symphony Orchestra’s *Suor Angelica* in Edinburgh © Jess Shurte

Recitals with distinctiveness and distinction spice up the 2025 festival in Aspen

17/08/202517/08/2025 by Harvey Steiman

United States Aspen Music Festival 2025 [12]: Harris Hall, Aspen. (HS)

Guitarist Sharon Isbin, celllist Lucas Chen and percussionists play Karen LeFrak’s ‘Habanera Nights’ © Diego Redel

An unmitigated triumph: Bieto’s and Sagripanti’s Zelmira at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro

17/08/202517/08/2025 by Andreas Bücker

Italy Rossini Opera Festival 2025 [1] – Rossini, Zelmira: Soloists, Coro del Teatro Ventidio basso (choir leader: Pasquale Veleno), Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Giacomo Sagripanti (conductor). Auditorium Scavolini, Pesaro, 10.8.2024. (AB)

Anastasia Bartoli (Zelmira), Edoardo Maria D’Angelo (Zelmira’s son) and Marina Viotti (Emma) in *Zelmira*

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Scottish Ballet’s new Mary, Queen of Scots at the EIF tells a well-trodden story in their own, powerful way

Ben Grosvenor and the BBC NOW fill the Royal Albert Hall with a collage of sounds

The EIF now relies more on concert opera, but if it’s all as good as Suor Angelica there’s no complaint

Recitals with distinctiveness and distinction spice up the 2025 festival in Aspen

An unmitigated triumph: Bieto’s and Sagripanti’s Zelmira at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro

The EIF’s Poland strand concludes with Polish music from multiple sources and multiple centuries

A most memorable Prom concert from Johannes Moser, Eva Ollikainen and the BBC SO

Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau scale lieder heights in Robert Schumann and Brahms.