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Season Previews from around the world

Hampshire’s The Grange Festival in 2024

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The Grange Festival celebrates its 2024 season with an exciting and eclectic mix of ballet, opera and jazz (6 June – 6 July)

The Grange Festival presents an opening night of dance followed by new productions of L’incoronazione di Poppea, Tosca and The Rake’s Progress and showcases the unique talents of vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Dan Tepfer

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Tippet Rise Art Center’s summer season 2023

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Tippet Rise – where music, art and nature combine to nourish the soul There are no bounds to Lindsey Hinmon’s enthusiasm when describing what makes Tippet Rise Art Center such a magical place. She and her husband, Pete, are its co-directors, tasked with running an art center situated in a 12,500-acre working ranch – a … Read more

Updated: Oxford International Song Festival – 18 to 28 October 2023

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Oxford International Song Festival (formerly Oxford Lieder Festival)

13 to 28 October 2023 Art:Song – Images, Words, Music

  • The UK’s largest festival of song celebrates its first festival under a new name with a fortnight featuring over 75 events.
  • World premieres include song cycles by FEDORA Opera Prize-winning British-Chinese composer Alex Ho (Oxford International Song Festival’s Associate Composer), Geoffrey Gordon, Mahdis Golzar Kashani, and Héloïse Werner, and a new work by Roxanna Panufnik co-commissioned with Presteigne Festival.
  • World-class singers and pianists, alongside emerging stars, take to the stage for evening song recitals, complemented by a wide-ranging series of events including lunchtime concerts, talks, tours, workshops, dance, masterclasses, and more.
  • With tickets starting at £5, several free events, £8 tickets for under-35s at every event, and a choice of discounts and concessionary rates, the Festival is accessible to all.

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András Keller and Concerto Budapest tour the UK and Ireland in September

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András Keller and Concerto Budapest to embark on UK & Ireland Tour in September with Pierre-Laurent Aimard

András Keller conducts Concerto Budapest

12 September 2023* – Croydon Fairfield Hall
13 September 2023 – Guildford G-Live
14 September 2023 – London Cadogan Hall
15 September 2023 – Cheltenham Town Hall
17 September 2023 – Edinburgh Usher Hall
19 September 2023 – Dublin National Concert Hall

András Keller conductor / Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano / *Mihaly Berecz piano

Programme includes Liszt’s Rhapsody No.2, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5, Mozart Symphony No.40 in G Minor, Bartók’s Piano Concerto No.3 and Beethoven’s Symphony No.3 ’Eroica’

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Royal Opera House at the cinema in 2023-24

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Royal Opera House announces 2023-2024 international Cinema Season

13 productions broadcast to over 500 UK cinemas
8 productions broadcast to 1,300 cinemas across the world
The Royal Opera House’s first cinema collaboration –
with Sadler’s Wells and Universal Music UK
A truly international roster of talent,
including Jonas Kaufmann and Sondra Radvanovsky

For more information and to book tickets CLICK HERE

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Munich’s Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2023-24

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GermanyGermany Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 2023-24 Season Presentation with Sir Simon Rattle: Nikolaus Pont (orchestra manager) and Sir Simon Rattle (chief conductor). Munich, 17.5.2023. (RF)

Sir Simon Rattle, new Chief Conductor of the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, giving his presentation © BR/Vera Johannsen

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra presented its programme for the 2023-34 season, the first under the long-awaited musical direction of Sir Simon Rattle. In a press conference together with orchestra manager Nikolaus Pont it was announced that Rattle will conduct a wide range of subscription concerts, special concerts, a ‘Musica Viva’ concert, the orchestra academy and the Bavarian Youth Orchestra. He will also be scouring the Bavarian countryside for five brass bands to play in a ‘Symphonischer Hoagascht’ together with the BRSO. He said that he has felt very much at home with the orchestra since first conducting it in 2010. The press conference made it clear that Rattle will be involved in all possible activities, including outreach and education.

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