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Season Previews from around the world

Teatro Colón in 2025

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Teatro Colón 2025 – new productions and a premiere

Teatro Colón

Ongoing but albeit improving difficult economic conditions in Argentina are reflected in the forthcoming 2025 opera season at the Teatro Colón – not least in the sparse prospectus for the year, compared with the more comprehensive and substantial editions of previous years.

Like 2024, the 2025 season foresees just seven works but a diverse selection and four of them as new local productions with only two having been put on previously within the last decade.

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Lost Dog, NEBT, Ballet Nights and Let’s Dance International Frontiers at the start of 2025

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SHARIF AFIFI (2023 Olivier nominee: The Band’s Visit (Donmar Warehouse) stars in LOST DOG’s award-winning, spectacularly popular, critically acclaimed one-man take on Milton’s epic poem: ‘Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)’. February 6 and 7 – Chichester Minerva Theatre March 15 to April 5 – London, Battersea Arts Centre (Tues-Sat each week) ‘PARADISE LOST…’ is … Read more

The 2025 Musikfest Berlin takes place from 30 August to 23 September

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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.

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Kings Place’s Earth Unwrapped begins in January 2025

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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

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Regents Opera’s two full Ring cycles at Bethnal Green’s York Hall in February/March 2025

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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.

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2024-2025 season

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s 107th season

Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni/TCO

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.

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Varna International Ballet returns to the UK in 2025

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Varna International Ballet presents stunning classical ballets to UK audiences

RG Live presents the return of the celebrated Varna International Ballet and Orchestra to the UK following a breathtaking debut tour in 2023. The company will visit 20 venues around the UK in 2025 with beloved classics Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Romeo and Juliet.
For more information and to book tickets CLICK HERE

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