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English Touring Opera’s Spring season 25 February – 27 May 2023
English Touring Opera presents two brand new productions of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia and Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims in Spring 2023
Spring season also includes a revival of the acclaimed 2020 production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare
London, Poole, Sheffield, Norwich, York, Durham, Chester, Cambridge, Snape, Canterbury, Cheltenham, Buxton, Leamington Spa and Exeter
50 years of Lambeth Orchestra
Lambeth Orchestra celebrates 50 years of music-making with an ambitious programme at Queen Elizabeth Hall on 18th January 2023.
Lambeth-born Nadine Benjamin joins the celebrations by performing Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. The rest of the programme includes Humperdinck’s Overture, Hansel and Gretel, and Mahler’s Symphony No.1 (including Blumine)
The Ultimate #MeToo Revenge Opera – Saffron Opera Group presents Don Giovanni with superb youthful cast of rising stars at 2.30pm on Sunday 19 February 2023
BALLET ICONS GALA: 19 February 2023, London Coliseum, 7.00pm
‘All danced so beautifully’ – Evening Standard
‘An exceptional talent, unmissable on stage…’ – Dance Tabs
‘…Feels like the night of a thousand stars, the very best the world of ballet has to offer… is the Grand Prix of the dance calendar, a celebration of choreography, compositions and most importantly dancers… Across the evening, the performance standard is outstanding…’ – The Reviews Hub
The annual Ballet Icons Gala is one of the world’s ballet highlights. Dedicated audiences experience the most illustrious classical and contemporary choreography.
Critically acclaimed chamber orchestra joined by legendary soloists to perform Wagner in huge first for the Highlands The Mahler Players, a chamber orchestra composed of professional musicians living in the Highlands, gives a concert performance of the complete Act II of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, the Preludes to Act I and III, and the Liebestod. … Read more
Bill Kenny (5 September 1938 – 31 October 2022)
Emeritus Editor, Seen and Heard International
We are sad to learn of the passing of Bill Kenny at the age of 83 last Monday October 31, 2022. He had not been well for a while. His character was best exemplified by himself in his own gently self-deprecating profile on MusicWeb International:
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