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Musikfest Berlin 2025: Tickets for the Initial Concert Highlights Available Now
The 2025 Musikfest Berlin will take place from 30 August to 23 September, hosted by Berliner Festspiele in co-operation with the Foundation Berliner Philharmoniker. Eight concerts featuring international guest orchestras from the Netherlands, France and Italy have been announced, and tickets can be purchased now as part of a promotion campaign.
KINGS PLACE’S EARTH UNWRAPPED: SIRENS FOR A WOUNDED PLANET
Mercury Prize nominated singer-songwriter Sam Lee, composer and producer Gazelle Twin and sound artist Jason Singh are Artists in Residence
Premieres and commissions from Erland Cooper, Raquel García-Tomas, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Josephine Stephenson and Julia Wolfe
Highlights include a weekend of deep listening curated by Daniel Pioro, Folk Weekend inspired by birdsong and new Soundscape installation from Alice Boyd, The Sound of King’s Cross
Artists include Alice Coote, Andrew Staples, Aurora Orchestra, BBC Singers, Carice Singers, Laura Cannell, Mary Bevan, Manchester Camerata, Nicolas Altstaedt, Olivia Chaney, Piatti Quartet, Sacconi Quartet, Soumik Datta, The House of Bedlam, Voces8 and more
The ‘End of the World’ will go ahead, as plucky Regents Opera forge onwards to complete opera’s epic undertaking, Wagner’s full Ring cycle
As larger houses around the world are forced to stop after the third instalment, Regents Opera navigates obstacles to ensure its full cycle will go ahead in February 2025.
Ben Woodward completes the biggest undertaking of the cycle so far, the distillation of Götterdämmerung.
The full Ring cycle transfers to a new venue, York Hall in Bethnal Green.
The Cleveland Orchestra’s 107th season
The Cleveland Orchestra will launch its 107th season on 19 and 22 September with the return of Franz Welser-Möst conducting Prokofiev’s ‘Classical’ Symphony, Schumann’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’ Symphony. It is Welser-Möst’s twenty-third season at the helm of the orchestra, and the programs are typical of the unexpected juxtapositions and contrasts that have been a feature of his tenure here. Many more such combinations lie ahead.
Jerusalem Quartet to play Shostakovich cycle in new Cleveland Chamber Music Society season
Royal Ballet and Opera announces 2024/25 Cinema Season
Tickets on sale 11 June
11 productions screened in 1,500 cinemas across the globe
Bringing The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera to 50 countries
Seven live broadcasts
Beloved classics including Cinderella, The Nutcracker and The Marriage of Figaro
New opera productions: The Tales of Hoffmann and Die Walküre
Cinema tickets on sale from 11 June for more information click here
Buckle up Wagnerians! the Ring cycle is coming to Surrey
Starting in 2026, Grange Park Opera undertakes the mammoth feat of staging the complete Ring cycle across four successive years.
Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen (usually known simply as the Ring cycle) starts in 2026 with Das Rheingold, followed by Die Walküre (2027), Siegfried (2028) and finishing with Götterdämmerung in 2029.