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

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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

First public performance of Imogen Holst’s Violin Concert at Holborn’s St Andrew’s Church on 24 November

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Discovery of a lost British concerto – Violinist Midori Komachi’s journey from the archives to a London performance and broadcasts in Tokyo

Midori Komachi (©Shizuki Kumanda) Imogen Holst (© George C. Beresford)

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.

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Longborough Festival Opera’s new Wagner Club

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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 Tomlinson, Susan Bullock CBE and Alan Rusbridger.

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Kings Place’s Earth Unwrapped begins in January 2025

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KINGS PLACE’S EARTH UNWRAPPED: SIRENS FOR A WOUNDED PLANET

Mercury Prize nominated singer-songwriter Sam Lee, composer and producer Gazelle Twin and sound artist Jason Singh are Artists in Residence

Premieres and commissions from Erland Cooper, Raquel García-Tomas, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Josephine Stephenson and Julia Wolfe

Highlights include a weekend of deep listening curated by Daniel Pioro, Folk Weekend inspired by birdsong and new Soundscape installation from Alice Boyd, The Sound of King’s Cross

Artists include Alice Coote, Andrew Staples, Aurora Orchestra, BBC Singers, Carice Singers, Laura Cannell, Mary Bevan, Manchester Camerata, Nicolas Altstaedt, Olivia Chaney, Piatti Quartet, Sacconi Quartet, Soumik Datta, The House of Bedlam, Voces8 and more

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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

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom English National Ballet’s Swan Lake in-the-round: Dancers 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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Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers coming to cinemas nationwide from 6 November 2024

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A NEW VISION OF VINCENT VAN GOGH

PRIVILEGED ACCESS TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY’S BLOCKBUSTER EXHIBITION
COMING TO CINEMAS NATIONWIDE ON 6 NOVEMBER 2024

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO FIND A SCREENING CLICK HERE

Explore the passion which drove one of the world’s favourite artists to change art forever.

The combination of exhibition and film rewrite the narrative and celebrate Van Gogh’s genius without exploiting his suffering.

It is time to truly understand this iconic artist.

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London Opera Company’s Siegfried at Sinfonia, Smith’s Square, on 2 November 2024

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London Opera Company assembles world class singers and full orchestra for Wagner’s Siegfried at Sinfonia, Smith’s Square

Following a series of performances which have delighted audiences and critics alike in recent years (including our sold-out and acclaimed performance of Tristan und Isolde last year), the London Opera Company returns to Sinfonia, Smith’s Square, London on Saturday 2 November for Wagner’s Siegfried, their latest production.

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Strauss’s Don Quixote with John Sharp and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on 24 to 26 October 2024

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John Sharp and Don Quixote: Chicago Symphony’s principal cellist returns to a classic role

Cellist John Sharp © Todd Rosenberg

‘It was intimidating and it was thrilling. That is what I remember about my first audition week’, John Sharp says, reflecting on his first moments with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. ‘To see Solti conduct and the way the orchestra played – it was really incredibly exciting’.

Sharp, now the CSO’s principal cellist, began his musical journey far from the concert stage. Growing up in Texas, it was a stroke of luck that led him to the cello. ‘It was complete chance, really. I raised my hand’, he recalls, thinking back to his early days with the cello. ‘I was trying all kinds of things and ended up choosing the cello’. The choice propelled him on a professional journey that, starting on 24 October, will see him perform Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote with the CSO under the baton of Sir Donald Runnicles.

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