Festivals

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

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United KingdomUnited 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

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

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

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC PROMS 2025 [14] – Varèse, Thovaldsdottir, Ravel, Stravinsky: Johannes Moser (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Eva Ollikainen (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 13.8.2025. (CC)

Eva Ollikainen conducts cellist Johannes Moser and the BBC SO © BBC/Andy Paradise

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Compelling directorial craftsmanship and musical excellence come together in Bayreuth’s new Die Meistersinger

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2025 [4] – Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nϋrnberg: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Daniele Gatti (conductor). 11.8.2025. (DM-D)

Die Meistersinger Act I © Bayreuther Festspiele/Enrico Nawrath

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In Bayreuth, Semyon Bychkov explores the primordial depths of the Tristan und Isolde score

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2025 [3] – Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Bayreuther Festspielhaus, 10.8.2025. (DM-D)

Tristan und Isolde Act I: [l-r] Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Andreas Schager (Tristan), Jordan Shanahan (Kurwenal),  Camilla Nylund (Isolde) and Günther Groissböck (King Marke) © Bayreuther Festspiele/Enrico Nawrath

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