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Hamburg State Opera’s 2025-26 season

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[l-r] Dr Ralf Klöter, Tobias Kratzer, Dr Carsten Brosda, Omer Meir Wellber, and Demis Volpi © Kiran West

‘No risk, no fun’
2025/26 season at Hamburgische Staatsoper under new leadership team

For full details and how to book tickets CLICK HERE

A new generation of leaders takes over at Hamburg State Opera, all in their early to mid-forties: artistic director Tobias Kratzer, general music director Omer Meir Wellber, and Demis Volpi, artistic director of the ballet company (appointed in the summer of 2024). Managing director Dr Ralf Klöter praised their ability to achieve balance of continuity and new departure, while Dr Carsten Brosda, the city state of Hamburg’s senator for culture and media, emphasised how much Hamburg’s citizens were looking forward to the developments at their opera house. Indicative of the collaborative spirit of the season, the opera, ballet and concert departments gave a joint press conference, and their season is represented in a single combined brochure.

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Pierre Audi introduces the 77th edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (4 – 21 July 2025)

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The 77th edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence from 4 – 21 July 2025

The metamorphosis of Calisto, the reincarnation of Buddha, the transformation of Louise, the protean Don Giovanni… The focus of the 2025 edition of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (for more information click here) is clearly on the inexorable mutability of all things and the perpetual reinvention of the self. ‘There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature’ says Ovid in his Metamorphoses; and this is reflected in Cavalli’s La Calisto, which depicts a fascinating continuum between nature, mankind and the gods.

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Opera Holland Park’s 2025 Season opens on 27 May

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Opera Holland Park’s 2025 Season

New productions of two dark Gothic fantasies. The return of an explosive contemporary classic. Sentiment and satire in two co-productions with Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte. A succession of significant role and house debuts, a recital series exploring the connections between opera and song, and a revival of a much-loved tragedy of first and last love.

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The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 – 21 to 30 August

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The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 – Opera for Everyone

The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 (full details CLICK HERE) will be ten days of Operas, Concerts, and Education Workshops throughout the most beautiful area of Britain. Following our Opera Festivals in 2021 and 2023, both critically acclaimed by international publications, the 2025 Festival will be even more exciting, engaging, and accessible: we will show that Opera is for everyone, and for everywhere.

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Teatro Colón in 2025

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Teatro Colón 2025 – new productions and a premiere

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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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