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There’s sweeping age old European classics, stirring symphonies from the ‘New World’ and more lined up for Warwick Arts Centre’s 2025-2026 Orchestral Season.
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, Paul Lewis CBE and Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha join Chineke!, CBSO, RPO and more. Plus we celebrate the musicians of tomorrow with the best youth orchestras, Lunchtime Concerts and more.
Opera Holland Park announces its 2026 Season
In a year that honours 30 years since Opera Holland Park was established, the 2026 Season will open with a new production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West.
Waterperry Opera Festival appoints John Savournin as new CEO and Artistic Director
2025 biggest season so far, Handel’s Semele transfers to Opera Holland Park
The Board of Trustees at Waterperry Opera Festival is delighted to announce that John Savournin has been appointed as CEO and Artistic Director with effect from 1 September 2025.
SAFFRON OPERA GROUP PRESENTS DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED CAST IN WAGNER’S TEMPESTUOUS TALE OF DOOMED LOVE SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2025, at 2.30pm ‘Saffron Opera is on top form… a brilliant account’ Seen and Heard International on Die Meistersinger (2024) ‘Passionate commitment’ The Guardian Having garnered outstanding reviews in the national press for performances of … Read more
An interview with violinist Miranda Cuckson who will perform in Anthony Cheung’s the echoing of tenses at New York’s Alice Tully Hall on 16 July
The Cleveland Orchestra’s Blossom Music Festival 2025
Germany Shostakovich’s composing colleagues – 22nd Musicological Symposium: University of Music and Theatre ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ Leipzig, 19 & 20.5.2025. (GT)
Lammermuir Festival 2025 In venues across East Lothian, in southeast Scotland Thursday 4 – Monday 15 September 2025 The Lammermuir Festival has carved out an enviable reputation for a distinctive and carefully curated programme of rare gems and fresh takes on popular works which attracts some of the world’s finest musicians to East Lothian each … Read more