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Varna International Ballet returns to the UK in 2025

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Varna International Ballet presents stunning classical ballets to UK audiences

RG Live presents the return of the celebrated Varna International Ballet and Orchestra to the UK following a breathtaking debut tour in 2023. The company will visit 20 venues around the UK in 2025 with beloved classics Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Romeo and Juliet.
For more information and to book tickets CLICK HERE

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Last two performances of the new opera Becoming Tosca are in Hastings on 23rd and 24th July

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Becoming Tosca: a new opera for Summer 2024 with two final performances soon in Hastings

Hastings-based Prologue Opera is presenting its new production of Becoming Tosca. After two successful early July performances it will be put on at The Stables Theatre in Hastings on 23rd and 24th July.

For more about Prologue Opera and to obtain tickets for the final performances click HERE.

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The Flying Dutchman in Birmingham next week is the UK’s first Black- and Asian-led Wagner production

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Ambitious and diverse production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman to be performed at Birmingham’s Bradshaw Hall on 7, 10 and 13 July 2024

The first Black- and Asian-led Wagner production in the UK, the project aims to break down racial barriers within the opera sector. This production of Wagner will be performed and seen by many people of mixed ethnic heritage who may never have experienced opera before.

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Southbank Sinfonia at St John’s Smith Square rebrands as Sinfonia Smith Square

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Southbank Sinfonia at St John’s Smith Square enters a new era as it announces rebrand to Sinfonia Smith Square

The newly rebranded Sinfonia Smith Square marks the start of an exciting new chapter in the organisation’s history. In April 2021, the renowned venue St John’s Smith Square merged with the much-loved Southbank Sinfonia to become one organisation, Southbank Sinfonia at St John’s Smith Square.

Now, in June 2024, the merged organisation is relaunching as Sinfonia Smith Square.

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