Season Previews

Season Previews from around the world

London’s Southbank Centre in 2024-25

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From Vivaldi to virtual reality: Southbank Centre announces Classical Music Autumn/Winter 2024/25 programme

[l-r] Paraorchestra © Paul Blakemore; Lawrence Power © Jessie Rodger; Julia Bullock © Allison Michael Orenstein

The Southbank Centre and its family of six Resident Orchestras – Aurora Orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Philharmonia Orchestra – has announced the Classical Music Autumn/Winter 2024/25 programme.

A presentation of the dynamic variety and staggering influence of the genre in all its forms, the programme features soaring symphonic works, powerful premieres, ambitious anniversary events performed by ground-breaking orchestras and ensembles.

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Bayerische Staatsoper in 2024-25

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The 2024–25 season at the Bayerische Staatsoper

Nine new Bayerische Staatsoper productions and three new Bayerisches Staatsballett productions, the fourth edition of the UniCredit September Festival, the third Ja, Mai Festival and a variety of concerts with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester as well as the Ballet Festival Week and the Munich Opera Festival provide the framework for the coming season in the Bayerische Staatsoper’s divisions.

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North Yorkshire’s Ryedale Festival – 12 to 28 July 2024

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Ryedale Festival – Friday 12 – Sunday 28 July 2024 – North Yorkshire

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The Ryedale Festival aims to make North Yorkshire one of the best places in Europe to enjoy and encounter classical music, and to do it with a sense of vision and adventure.

This year’s summer festival takes place between Friday 12th – Sunday 28th July and features 58 performances in 35 beautiful and historic locations across the county.

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Classical music at London’s Barbican in 2024-25

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The Barbican announces its autumn and winter season of classical music for 2024-2025

Across the 2024-25 season, with its family of orchestral residents, associates and partners, the Barbican will present a typically eclectic programme of symphonic magnitude, technical mastery and illuminating storytelling – across a millennium of human creativity and music making.

Helen Wallace, Head of Music says: ‘The Barbican music programme always strives to be ambitious, international and relevant. Across both our own programme, and those of our resident and associate ensembles, 2024-25 hums with creativity. From exciting new music theatre work and cross-cultural collaborations, welcome returns from both the Simón Bolivar Orchestra and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Yo-Yo Ma and Darbar Festival, to debuts from Sir Antonio Pappano as the LSO’s Chief Conductor, Spinifex Gum, LOD muziektheater and more, we’re offering audiences a rich array of perspectives, captivating performances and, above all, brilliant art music.‘

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Bampton Classical Opera in 2024

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BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2024 SEASON

For their summer production Bampton Classical Opera will present Giuseppe Gazzaniga’s bubbling comedy L’isola d’Alcina, with a libretto by Giovanni Bertati. It will be sung in a new English translation by Gilly French as Alcina’s Island. Performances will be conducted by Thomas Blunt and directed by Jeremy Gray.

The company will also give a performance of Haydn’s delightful comic opera The Apothecary (Lo speziale) on May 6 at The Manor House, Dorchester on Thames, as part of the 2024 Dorchester Festival.

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Opera North announces season of magic and mystery for 2024-2025

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Opera North announces its new season for 2024-2025, featuring a raft of shows full of magic, mystery and magnificent music.

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The Leeds-based opera company is also finding more ways than ever to make the extraordinary experiences of great opera and music accessible for everyone, including 6pm start times for some performances, more matinee performances, English subtitles at all performances, and sign-interpretation, audio description and touch tours on selected dates.

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