Some musical highlights of Musicus Fest 2024 in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s Musicus Fest 2024 in Hong Kong

In 2010, a group of music enthusiasts in Hong Kong founded the Musicus Society. Under the artistic direction of Trey Lee, the organization has become an integral part of the cultural life of this Asian metropolis over the last 15 years.

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Royal Ballet and Opera and The Metropolitan Opera to widen its cinema audience in the UK and US

Royal Ballet and Opera and The Metropolitan Opera join forces with new cinema collaboration

First of its kind collaboration to widen access to world-class ballet and opera across the UK and US

Broadcasts of the Met’s production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Royal Ballet’s classic, The Nutcracker

Click here for RBO and here for the Met and find your local cinema screening

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The Covent Garden Sinfonietta return to Vienna’s Musikverein with more life-affirming music

Refinement to the most delicate lyrical detail

The Covent Garden Sinfonietta, under the baton of its maestro Daniel Oren, made the Wiener Musikverein resonate with a two-night performance on 10 and 12 November. The siblings Adam Gutseriev (piano) and Dali Gutserieva (cello) excelled as soloists.

Pianist Adam Gutseriev

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English National Opera launches plans for a new partnership with Greater Manchester

English National Opera (ENO) announced the first wave of plans for a major new partnership between the company and the city-region of Greater Manchester for the next three years, enabling ENO to be firmly established within Greater Manchester by 2029. NEW IMMERSIVE PRODUCTION OF PHILIP GLASS AND ROBERT WILSON’S EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH UK PREMIERE … Read more

Longborough Festival Opera’s new Wagner Club

Longborough Festival Opera is proud to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Anthony Negus as its esteemed Music Director in 2025 by announcing the launch of the Longborough Wagner Club

Anthony Negus conducts Die Walküre © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Anthony Negus will be the Club’s Founder President, and its distinguished ambassadors include Stephen Fry, Sir John TomlinsonSusan Bullock CBE and Alan Rusbridger.

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(P)review of a unique cinematic event: ENB’s Swan Lake in-the-round on the big screen from 30 October

United KingdomUnited Kingdom English National Ballet’s Swan Lake in-the-roundDancers of English National Ballet, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Gavin Sutherland (conductor). Filmed (directed by Peter Jones) at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 22.6.2024. (JPr)

Dancers of English National Ballet in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake in-the-round © Ian Gavan

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Operalia 2024 in Mumbai: a mixed bag

IndiaIndia Operalia 2024: Various composers and soloists, Symphony Orchestra of India / Plácido Domingo and Kamal Khan (conductors), Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, 21.9.2024. (JSM)

Conductors Plácido Domingo and Kamal Khan and participants of Operalia 2024

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