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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 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
Musikfest Berlin 2025: Tickets for the Initial Concert Highlights Available Now
The 2025 Musikfest Berlin will take place from 30 August to 23 September, hosted by Berliner Festspiele in co-operation with the Foundation Berliner Philharmoniker. Eight concerts featuring international guest orchestras from the Netherlands, France and Italy have been announced, and tickets can be purchased now as part of a promotion campaign.
The Cambridge University Schola Cantorum: A New Choir For Cambridge University
Students from Cambridge University are proud to present the unprecedented foundation of The Cambridge University Schola Cantorum. While The University Of Cambridge’s individual college choirs have been widely celebrated throughout the world, there has never before been a liturgical choir under the University’s banner, nor a University choir with national and international prestige: A cross-college ensemble of the Cambridge’s most talented singers and an elite group of vocalists from the University – the equivalent of a sporting blue for music in the choral tradition.
Next event – Carol Concert on Wednesday 11 December 2024 at St Mary le Bow, Cheapside, London. For more information click here.
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 (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
Discovery of a lost British concerto – Violinist Midori Komachi’s journey from the archives to a London performance and broadcasts in Tokyo
Based between London and Tokyo, violinist, writer and composer, Midori Komachi, is reviving a neglected British violin concerto by Imogen Holst with a performance in London and live broadcast and lecture recital in Japan, as part of her latest project bridging UK and Japanese cultures through music. As soloist, Komachi will give the First Public Performance with the Elgar Sinfonia conducted by Adrian Brown at St Andrew’s Church, Holborn, London at 16:30, Sunday 24 November 2024.
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.