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Royal Opera House appoints Jakub Hrůša as Music Director
The Royal Opera House today announces the appointment of Jakub Hrůša as Music Director of The Royal Opera. Hrůša will assume the position of Music Director Designate with immediate effect and will begin his tenure as Music Director in September 2025.
The London Opera Company will bring a new concert performance of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde to St John’s Smith Square, London on Saturday 29 October 2022, featuring top-flight international singers and musicians.
Ukrainian opera star Yuriy Yurchuk leads a special one-off fundraising concert in support of Ukraine
Royal Opera House principal artist and Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk will be joined by Armenian soprano Anush Hovhannisyan and pianist Ed Battling for an evening of world-class music in this special one-off fundraising concert. The night will feature a programme of much-loved arias and crowd favourites, with more information to be released over the coming days.
Maestro Alsop brings the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra to Carnegie Hall for the first time in the orchestra’s history
For Marin Alsop, it is about working in partnership and extending an opportunity to the world to immerse themselves, as listeners, in new experiences of place, people and culture. On 14 and 15 October, Maestro Alsop will bring the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra to Carnegie Hall for the first time in the orchestra’s history, as part of a North American tour. She has had a long relationship as their Music Director from 2013-2020, and she spoke to me about her vision coming together in these two days of concerts at Carnegie Hall. She now holds the title of Conductor of Honor.
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Vasily Petrenko’s 2022-23 season includes Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand’, major tours with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, debut concerts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, returns to the Oslo Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony and Cleveland orchestras and bringing the season to a close to with Bavarian State Opera’s production of Boris Godunov
RICK WAKEMAN revisits his classic albums in two unique concerts with band and choir
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The London Palladium, 22 and 23 February 2023
The 17th International Malcolm Arnold Festival 2022 – The Dancing Master
8-9 October 2022 (live in London)
30th October (Free and Livestreamed from around the UK)
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