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Cheltenham Music Festival 2024 begins on 6 July

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Cheltenham Music Festival 2024 from 6 July to 13 July

Click here for the Festival website and full details

Cheltenham Music Festival has announced a sparkling line-up for its seventy-ninth year, the Festival will host some of the most exciting names of today’s classical music world.

The programme builds on the Festival’s longstanding reputation as one of the UK’s premier platforms for new work, alongside a plethora of older gems both to be found and rediscovered.

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Edinburgh International Festival begins on 2 August

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Edinburgh International Festival from 2-25 August 2024

Festival Director, Nicola Benedetti, celebrates the launch of the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival with dancer Aakash Odedra and musicians Calum MacCrimmon and Conal McDonagh from Breabach at the National Museum of Scotland © Mihaela Bodlovic

Edinburgh International Festival presents a hand-picked selection of leading international and local artists in the world’s Festival City, with 24 days of world-class opera, dance, music and theatre.

For full details of this year’s EIF click here.

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Paola Prestini’s new opera Sensorium Ex premieres at Omaha’s The Common Senses Festival in 2025

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‘To Have A Voice Is Everything’ – New opera in the spotlight at National Sawdust

At the end of ‘Opera Evolved: Genre Fluidity’, my friend turned to me and said, ‘Well, are we going to Omaha?’ Nebraska hardly trips off the tongue when it comes to opera destinations, but perhaps it should. In 2025, The Common Senses Festival will present the world premiere of Sensorium Ex, a remarkable new opera by composer Paola Prestini with a libretto by poet Brenda Shaughnessy.

Hailey McAvoy (mezzo-soprano), Jerron Herman (director/choreographer) and Paola Prestini (composer) © Jill Steinberg

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