Season Previews

Season Previews from around the world

San Francisco Opera’s upcoming 2023-2024 season emphasizes fresh works

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San Francisco Opera – September 2023 to June 2024

Music director Eun Sun Kim and general director Matthew Shilvock © Codey Pickens

Works by contemporary composers Mason Bates, Rhiannon Giddens and Kaija Saariaho bring fresh voices to San Francisco Opera’s next season at the War Memorial Opera House and continues a trend to present new works.

Adding to last fall’s world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra by John Adams and this coming June’s El último sueño de Frida y Diego by Gabriela Lena Frank, these three pieces place San Francisco squarely in an era that is reviving interest in modern opera.

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Go to New York without leaving your hometown with the Met Opera’s Live in HD performances in 2023  

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The Met: Live in HD – January to June 2023 

Tim Yip’s set design for Parsifal

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of high-definition cinema broadcasts, distributed in the UK by Trafalgar Releasing, offers a unique opportunity to visit New York from the comfort of your local cinema in 2023. From January – June 2023, seven incredible performances will be broadcast live from the Met stage in New York to cinemas worldwide. Audiences will also enjoy exclusive behind-the-scenes access, including backstage interviews with artists and more.

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Classical Vauxhall returns for its fourth edition in March 2023

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Classical Vauxhall
Thursday March 2nd to Sunday 5th March
St Mark’s Church, Kennington

For more about Classical Vauxhall click here

Classical Vauxhall is delighted to announce the fourth edition of the acclaimed classical music festival in the heart of London’s most diverse and electric neighbourhoods. Running from March 2nd to 5th we welcome Nicky Spence and Sholto Kynoch, Rakhi Singh, The Julian Bliss Septet, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Clifton Harrison and Jamal Aliyev. 

Tickets for all concerts are £20, with concessions. You can read the full lineup and how to purchase tickets here.

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English Touring Opera’s national tour Spring 2023

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English Touring Opera’s Spring season 25 February – 27 May 2023

English Touring Opera presents two brand new productions of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia and Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims in Spring 2023

Spring season also includes a revival of the acclaimed 2020 production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare

London, Poole, Sheffield, Norwich, York, Durham, Chester, Cambridge, Snape, Canterbury, Cheltenham, Buxton, Leamington Spa and Exeter

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RPO’s Journeys of Discovery and the rest of Vasily Petrenko’s 2022-23 season

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Vasily Petrenko

Vasily Petrenko’s 2022-23 season includes Mahler’s ‘Symphony of a Thousand’, major tours with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, debut concerts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, returns to the Oslo Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony and Cleveland orchestras and bringing the season to a close to with Bavarian State Opera’s production of Boris Godunov

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