NEW! Aldeburgh Festival from 12 – 28 June 2020
22/01/2020
Aldeburgh Festival 2020 (12 – 28 June)
For full programme information CLICK HERE
Priority booking will open from 14 January. General booking will open on 18 February. Read more
NEW! A Q&A WITH CHINESE SOPRANO HUI HE
16/01/2020
Hui He had a great success recently on her return to New York’s Metropolitan Opera as Madama Butterfly (review click here) and answers Seen and Heard International’s questions about her life and her career. Read on for more about her ‘journey in the world of opera’ from China’s Shaanxi province to Verona and the world’s greatest concert halls and opera houses. Read more
NEW! Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2020 from 29 April to 16 May in Leicester
14/01/2020
LET’S DANCE INTERNATIONAL FRONTIERS 2020
Leicester’s annual dance festival celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2020 with a thrilling programme of dance and performance from the UK, USA, Norway, Cuba, Martinique, Tanzania, Italy and more
April 29th – May 16th at venues across Leicester
Tickets: www.ldif.co.uk https://serendipity-uk.com/programme/ Read more
NEW! Beethoven 250 at London’s Barbican
01/01/2020
Barbican celebrates Beethoven at 250
Barbican Box Office: 0845 120 7550
www.barbican.org.uk Read more
NEW AND UPDATED! BEST OF 2019 FROM SOME OF OUR REVIEWERS
28/12/2019
Some Seen and Heard-International reviewers pick their Best of 2019 Read more
NEW! PIANIST ZLATA CHOCHIEVA IN CONVERSATION WITH GEOFFREY NEWMAN
28/12/2019
Zlata Chochieva talks to Geoffrey Newman
Zlata Chochieva © Evengy Evtyukhov
Since the release of her Piano Classics discs of Chopin and Rachmaninoff five years ago, 34-year-old, Moscow-born Zlata Chochieva has climbed firmly into the international spotlight. Read more
NEW! CONDUCTOR TOM HAMMOND IN CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT BEATTIE
28/12/2019
Tom Hammond talks to Robert Beattie
Tom Hammond (c) Gareth Barton
Tom Hammond is a London-based conductor, recording producer, and Festival Director. As well as being Music Director/Principal Conductor of the Finchley, Hertford and St Albans Symphony Orchestras, Tom also directs youth orchestras in Hatfield and Watford, and is a Guest Conductor for the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, Palestine, and in this country with the Orchestra of the Swan, which is based in Stratford-upon-Avon. Tom is a founding Artistic Director of the Hertfordshire Festival of Music, an annual summer celebration of classical music held in various venues in Hertfordshire which celebrates its fifth consecutive year in 2020. Read more
NEW! Opera and more in Buenos Aires during 2020
10/12/2019
Opera Buenos Aires 2020 – An interesting line up, including new Ring cycle
After a largely traditional season in 2019, the Teatro Colón’s programme for 2020 is varied and interesting with much to look forward to.
Despite the difficult economic conditions and major political changes, a regular feature of Argentine life that much of the populace and organisations generally appear to navigate without sinking, the season continues at the current level by number, with eight operas (one in concert), three chamber operas, three works in the choral symphony series and some noteworthy new names in the ‘great international interpreter’ series. Read more
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This joyous set of Beethoven's sonatas takes its place among the very best. 
In its own way, the Seven Words of Christ is just as sublime as the Stabat Mater. 
This sensitive, dynamic recording is a joy, and may even constitute a revelation. 
The pair exhibits a refined style on these illuminating performances. 
A deeply affecting experience that ought to win the opera many new admirers. 
Composed in 1803, at a time when Beethoven was also writing his second symphony and his third piano 
This production has worked hard to cut the story's racist stereotypes 
Byzantine, Aramaic, and Coptic Christian traditions are melded along with songs and chants – some of 
While other venues closed up shop for the festive season, Wigmore Hall has flown the flag for top-qu 
After a few troubles, the German star regains control and delivers a brilliant performance 
