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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.
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.
Teatro Colón 2025 – new productions and a premiere
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.
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
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.
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
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.