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Apollo’s Fire blazes in dueling concertos to open Ohio season

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United StatesUnited States ‘Fencing Match, Round One’ – Various: Kathie Stewart (flute), Daphna Mor (recorder), Alan Choo, Susanna Perry Gilmore, Emi Tanabe (violins), René Schiffer, Rebecca Landell (violas da gamba), Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor). Bath Church, Ohio, 8.8.2025. (MSJ)

Apollo’s Fire led by Jeannette Sorrell © Apollo’s Fire

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Beatrice Rana’s fresh performance of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini wows Prommers

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [12] – Dukas, Rachmaninov, Bartók: Beatrice Rana (piano), BBC Singers (chorus master: Neil Ferris), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Josep Pons (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 8.8.2025. (LJ)

Josep Pons conducts the BBC SO © BBC/Mark Allan

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Sofia Opera’s open air Les Misérables is a spectacular triumph of wonderful singing and acting

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BulgariaBulgaria Opera on the Square Summer Festival – Boublil and Schönberg, Les Misérables: Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of Sofia Opera and Ballet / Constantin Trinks (conductor). Alexander Nevsky Square, Sofia, 2.8.2025. (GT)

Sofia Opera’s Les Misérables in Alexander Nevsky Square

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Capella de la Torre show spirit in their high-voltage (if quite tiring) Les Éléments in Périgord

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FranceFrance Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 [2]: La Roche Baroque [2] – Les Éléments: Capella de la Torre. Église Saint-Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 1.8.2025. (CC)

Capella de la Torre at Église Saint-Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt

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A very musical day at Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 begins in a perfect way with La Risonanza

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FranceFrance Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 [2]: La Roche Baroque [1] – Handel and his Contemporaries: La Risonanza. Église Saint-Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 1.8.2025. (CC)

La Risonanza at the Église Saint-Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt

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Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green in conversation with Harvey Steiman

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Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green on the Ring road to Wotan

Ryan Speedo Green © Jiyang Chen

In the nine years since a book about Ryan Speedo Green told his story of a troubled African-American youth redeemed by opera, the bass-baritone has risen from short opera roles to a career that has made him a star at the Metropolitan Opera. His latest triumph is an astonishingly mature portrayal of Wotan in Wagner’s Die Walküre at Santa Fe Opera [click here].

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Sofia Ballet’s freshly exciting Romeo and Juliet is a terrific success in the setting of Pancherovo Lake  

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BulgariaBulgaria Muses on the Water Summer Festival – Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Soloists, Corps de Ballet and Orchestra of Sofia Ballet / Igor Bogdanov (conductor), Pancherovo Lake, Sofia, 1.8.2024. (GT)

Marta Petkova (Juliet) and Frederico Pinto (Romeo)

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