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The English National Opera (ENO) announces our 2023/24 main stage season
Following a difficult six months for the company beginning with the Arts Council’s removal of its National Portfolio status and a delay in the confirmation of future funding, the ENO returns with an opera season showcasing the work the company is most renowned for.
English National Ballet’s Cinderella in-the-round at Royal Albert Hall Thursday from 15 – Sunday 25 June 2023
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English National Ballet returns to Royal Albert Hall from 15 – 25 June 2023 to present Cinderella in-the-round by award winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon.
The Met Orchestra to embark on international tour in June 2023, its first in more than 20 years
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to lead orchestra with stops in Paris, London, and Baden-Baden
Concerts to feature Met stars Angel Blue, Joyce DiDonato, and Russell Thomas
Works include Act IV of Verdi’s Otello, selections from Berlioz’s Les Troyens, and music by Bernstein, Matthew Aucoin, and Tchaikovsky
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2023: 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
SUMMER PRODUCTION – UK première Antonio Salieri’s ‘At the Venice Fair’ (La fiera di Venezia) (1772)
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire: 21, 22 July; Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire: 28 August; St John’s Smith Square, London: 13 September
Exhibition of costumes, props and artefacts celebrating 30 years of Bampton Classical Opera: Bampton Community Archive, Old Grammar School, Church View, Bampton OX18 2NE – 13 June-6 August, every day 10-4pm, admission free, with accompanying book for sale written by Jeremy Gray.
F J Haydn double-bill ‘The Diva’/’The Apothecary’ – 15 June, 6.30pm
The Northern Aldborough Festival 2023: St. Andrew’s Church, Aldborough, YO51 9ER
F J Haydn’s ‘The Apothecary’ – 9 September.
The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 6LU
Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers’ Competition 2023
Public Final 25th November: The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford, OX2 6UD
Public booking opens for The Royal Opera House’s 2023/24 season opens on Wednesday 2 August
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The Royal Opera House 2023/24 Season is a bold programme of thrilling new work, UK premieres and much-loved revivals, alongside the biggest national learning programme in our history, exciting new regional partnerships, and a host of daytime events, behind the scenes tours, exhibitions and artistic Insights at our home in the heart of Covent Garden.
Festival Director Nicola Benedetti launches the 2023 Edinburgh International Festival – 4-27 AUGUST 2023
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General booking for the 2023 International Festival opens on Wednesday 3 May, with tickets currently on-sale to Members and supporters.
New Festival Director Nicola Benedetti’s first Edinburgh International Festival programme is revealed.
Benedetti sets out a vision for the 2023 Festival to deliver the deepest possible experience, with the highest quality performances, to the broadest possible audience.
Following the Festival’s 75th anniversary, under the direction of a new Festival Director, this year’s programme is themed around the question ‘where do we go from here?’.
Comprising 295 separate events from 4-27 August, Edinburgh International Festival 2023 features work from over 2000 local and international artists from across 48 nations.
The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2023/24 London season
Key highlights:
The Music in You – a festival celebrating the creativity that is in us all and embraces all kinds of artistic expression and art forms including dance, music, theatre and audience participation as well as pieces for mobile phones and metronomes
Tania León’s inaugural season as Composer-in-Residence including a world premiere
Principal Conductor Edward Gardner opens the season with Mahler’s Symphony No.2 (Resurrection) and later in the season conducts Holst’s The Planets and Stravinsky’s Petrushka
Conductor Emeritus Vladimir Jurowski closes the season with the long-awaited conclusion of his Wagner Ring Cycle: Götterdämmerung
Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8 and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4
We welcome the LPO’s two inaugural Fellow Conductors: Luís Castillo-Briceño and Charlotte Politi
New works by Daniel Kidane and Francisco Coll and UK premieres from Victoria Vita Polevá, Luís Tinoco and John Williams
The LPO welcomes back Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, Robin Ticciati, Paavo Järvi, Christian Tetzlaff and Danielle de Niese, amongst others
Artists making their debut with the Orchestra include conductors Jonathon Heyward, Tianyi Lu and Oksana Lyniv, pianist Julian Joseph, accordionist João Barradas and organist Anna Lapwood
BBC Proms – Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September 2023
84 Proms to feature over 3,000 musicians bring the UK together in celebration of classical music with eight weeks of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, a new weekend festival at Sage Gateshead and Proms in all four nations
The 2023 Proms features a huge breadth of programming, from Berlioz to Bollywood, large scale symphonic and choral work to intimate chamber concerts and exciting Proms debuts.