Festivals

Pasteurised ‘Pastoral’, Incandescent Inferno: Gustavo Dudamel and LA Phil at the Proms

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2026 [15] – Beethoven, Adès: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 11.8.2026. (AV-E)

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the LA Phil © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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Triumphant Cesti’s Il pomo d’oro celebrates the Innsbruck Early Music Festival’s 50th anniversary

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AustriaAustria Innsbruck Festival for Early Music – Pietro Antonio Cesti, Il pomo d’oro: Soloists, Street Motion Studio, Compagnia Fattoria Vittadini, NovoCanto, Accademia Bizantina / Ottavio Dantone (conductor). Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck, 7 & 8.8.2026. (AB)

Ester Ferraro (Discordia), Neima Fischer (Proserpina) and José Coca Loza (Plutone) © Birgit Gufler

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Iolanthe at Buxton: Westminster’s politicians are taught a lesson

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Buxton International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival [3] – Iolanthe: Soloists of Charles Court Opera, National Festival Orchestra / David Eaton (conductor). Buxton Opera House, Derbyshire, 7.8.2026. (RW)

‘None shall part us from each other’ (Matthew Palmer as Strephon and Llio Evans as Phyllis) © Craig Fuller

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Youthful vitality, Vilde Frang, and Salonen’s all-encompassing technique made for a memorable Prom

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2026 [14] – Salonen Conducts 20th-Century Classics: Vilde Frang (violin), Juilliard Orchestra, Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 10.8.2026. (CC)

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts violinist Vilde Frang and players of the Juilliard Orchestra and Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra © BBC/Chris Christodoulou  

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Currentzis, Grigorian and Tetelman overcome Carrizo’s choreographic oddities in Salzburg’s Carmen

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2026 [1] – Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Utopia Choir (chorus master: Vitaly Polonsky), Salzburg Bach Choir (chorus master: Michael Schneider), Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor (chorus masters: Wolfgang Götz, Regina Sgier), Utopia Orchestra / Teodor Currentzis (conductor). Filmed (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, on 8.8.2026 and streamed on STAGE+ on 9.8.2026. (JPr)

Eurudike De Beul (Don José’s Mother), Jonathan Tetelman (Don José) and Kristina Mkhitaryan (Micaëla) © SF/Thomas Aurin

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