United Kingdom William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Filmed live (directed by Tim Van Someren) at London’s Donmar Warehouse in 2023 and released in cinemas across the UK, US, Australia and selected international territories from 5th February 2025. (JPr)
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Len Mullenger looks back at 30 years of MusicWeb International (founded in 1995)
30 years of MusicWeb International by Len Mullenger
2025 is the year in which MusicWeb achieves a significant milestone; it is thirty years ago that I founded the site, way back in 1995.
I hope I will be forgiven for blowing my own – and MusicWeb’s – trumpet. Over these thirty years we have diligently presented reviews of extremely high quality, unmatched in quantity by any other site. We are the number one leading site, with 61,000 CD reviews to date and multitudes of articles, and we are immensely proud of all that. I am immensely grateful to all the contributors to MusicWeb, both past and current, whose efforts have enabled us to achieve all this. My particular thanks go to my management team of David Barker, Ralph Moore, John Quinn and Jonathan Woolf whose strong support I rely so much on.
The 2025 Salzburg Festival – 18 July to 31 August
174 Performances on 45 Tagen at 16 Venues as well as 37 Performances as part of the Youth Programme jung & jede*r
‘I am being given birth into death,’ remarks Samuel Beckett’s character Malone in a monologue that dissolves time and space, leaving only the nothingness of the end. The endgame of human existence is where we find the protagonists of this summer’s Salzburg Festival: siblings languishing in the Russian provinces in Peter Eötvös’s Three Sisters, a woman lost in the forest in Schoenberg’s Erwartung and a mournful, lonely wanderer in Mahler’s ‘Der Abschied’. The doctor in Vladimir Sorokin’s deadly blizzard is likewise caught up in extreme circumstances, as is the despondent prophetess Cassandra in Michael Jarrell’s adaptation of Christa Wolf’s novella.
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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.
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
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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.
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 will be the Club’s Founder President, and its distinguished ambassadors include Stephen Fry, Sir John Tomlinson, Susan Bullock CBE and Alan Rusbridger.