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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2023-24 season

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra continues its 2023/24 season, which is supported by Season Sponsor Investec and filled with symphonic performances across the South West and beyond.

Kirill Karabits © Mark Allan

Highlights include performances under the baton of Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits in his final season, which concludes in a three-week celebration of music that both reflects on his tenure to date and the BSO’s ongoing commitment to repertoire from Karabits’s native Ukraine and its surrounding regions.

Kirill Karabits celebrates his 15-year tenure as Chief Conductor following a sensational relationship lasting a decade and a half. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s final season with Kirill Karabits as Chief Conductor began last autumn and sees the BSO celebrate a broad range of repertoire with Karabits, from the symphonies of Brahms, Bruckner and Borodin to rarities including a concert performance of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (8 May).

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Bampton Classical Opera in 2024

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Bampton Classical Opera 2024 Season

Giuseppe Gazzaniga, L’isola d’Alcina – Alcina’s Island (1772)

Performances:
The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire – Friday 19, Saturday 20 July
Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire – Monday 26 August
The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex – Saturday 31 August
St John’s Smith Square, London – Friday 13 September

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London’s Opera Holland Park in 2024

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Introducing Opera Holland Park’s 2024 Season, including current casting and booking dates

Comedies, tragedies and a cavalcade of deceptions and disguises

Characters from carnival, commedia dell’arte and classical myth tell stories of transformation, enchantment and revenge in Opera Holland Park’s 2024 Season. A diva confronts a corrupt chief of police in the grit and glamour of 1960s Rome. A barber plays puppet-master in Seville, outwitting his clients in an attempt to prevent an unwanted wedding. A Flemish knight must choose between vice and virtue, while a sea nymph tries to elude an amorous Sicilian cyclops. In London and Calabria, the arrival of travelling players leads to chaos. And in an elegant villa in Piedmont, a newly married couple navigate their first falling out.

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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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