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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.
The Cleveland Orchestra’s 107th season
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.
Jerusalem Quartet to play Shostakovich cycle in new Cleveland Chamber Music Society season
Buckle up Wagnerians! the Ring cycle is coming to Surrey
Starting in 2026, Grange Park Opera undertakes the mammoth feat of staging the complete Ring cycle across four successive years.
Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen (usually known simply as the Ring cycle) starts in 2026 with Das Rheingold, followed by Die Walküre (2027), Siegfried (2028) and finishing with Götterdämmerung in 2029.
Elisabeth Sobotka and Christian Thielemann, the new artistic director and new general music director at Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 2024/25, present their first season at the opera house.
The future artistic director at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Elisabeth Sobotka and the future general music director Christian Thielemann presented their programme for their first joint season 2024/25 and look forward to working together.
English National Opera announces its 2024/25 London Coliseum Season
English National Opera (ENO) announces the programme for its 2024/25 London Coliseum season with eight world-class productions and concerts. The season will run from 26 September 2024 to 22 February 2025.
Diversity, imaginative classics and continuing courage for engaging with new formats are the key components of the Bremerhaven 2024/25 season
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