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Fulham Opera’s Die Ägyptische Helena – 19 – 30 October 2021 at St John’s Church, Fulham, London
The Bath Festival Orchestra presents a vibrant London debut, joined by Julian Bliss
From Imprisoned Suffragettes of the twentieth-century to Scottish composers of today’s world, the spirited players of the newly revived orchestra share virtuosic work from across the centuries.
Eboracum Baroque Autumn/Winter Season 2021
Eboracum Baroque’s Autumn and Winter season is an ambitious programme of events that will feature high quality concerts including dazzling choral works and intimate chamber music recitals.
For more information CLICK HERE.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is delighted to announce that Japanese conductor Kazuki Yamada has been appointed as its Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor with effect from 1 April 2023 for an initial four and a half-year period.
Opening of the 239th season of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg
Last season most performing companies including the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Companies staged season-long series of both opera and ballet across their performance stages. Today the Mariinsky boasts no less than four stages, two for opera and ballet and two concert halls. Last season, the performances were well attended and there is no reason not to expect full audiences in the forthcoming 239th season.
BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2021 – Christoph Willibald Gluck Paris and Helen
(1770 – 250th anniversary production)
FIRST-EVER LONDON STAGING, ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE, FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
‘..a work of shining beauty, an exquisite, at moments rapturous outpouring of romantic lyricism with few parallels in 18th-century opera‘ Max Loppert, Opera Magazine
Following performances at Bampton in July, and Westonbirt School on 30 August, Bampton Classical Opera (click here) will bring their highly-praised production of Gluck’s major work, Paride ed Elena to St John’s Smith Square on 24 September, which will be the first-ever London staging of this opera.
AN EVENING OF DANCE AND CONVERSATION WITH SERGEI POLUNIN
FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER 2021, 7.30 PM AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM
Join world-renowned iconic ballet dancer, actor and artist SERGEI POLUNIN at a one-night-only unique appearance: an unmissable evening of intimate conversation and UK premieres of new solos live on-stage at London’s Palladium theatre, to celebrate the publication of his autobiography FREE: A LIFE IN IMAGES AND WORDS (teNeues Publishing, 2021, click here).
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