Season Previews

Season Previews from around the world

The Grange Festival 2023 (8 June – 2 July)

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Notable debuts and established names highlight The Grange Festival’s 2023 season
8 June – 2 July

The Grange Festival presents new productions of Così fan tutte, Orfeo ed Euridice / Dido and Aeneas and The Queen of Spades, followed by two nights of jazz celebrating the music of jazz legend Duke Ellington 

‘Quality and courage. With two excellent productions [Macbeth and Tamerlano], The Grange Festival confirms its excellence and uniqueness amongst European summer festivals.’ Musica, September 2022  

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Grange Park Opera are searching for a donkey in summer 2023

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2023 at Grange Park Opera, Surrey … in search of a donkey – 8 June – 13 July 2023

The world has never needed opera more, and opera companies have never needed their audiences more. Grange Park Opera also really need a live donkey….

The 2023 season presents three great love stories, a Welsh Knight, and another of their highly acclaimed productions created on location and available for the whole world to stream for free.

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San Francisco Opera’s upcoming 2023-2024 season emphasizes fresh works

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San Francisco Opera – September 2023 to June 2024

Music director Eun Sun Kim and general director Matthew Shilvock © Codey Pickens

Works by contemporary composers Mason Bates, Rhiannon Giddens and Kaija Saariaho bring fresh voices to San Francisco Opera’s next season at the War Memorial Opera House and continues a trend to present new works.

Adding to last fall’s world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra by John Adams and this coming June’s El último sueño de Frida y Diego by Gabriela Lena Frank, these three pieces place San Francisco squarely in an era that is reviving interest in modern opera.

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Go to New York without leaving your hometown with the Met Opera’s Live in HD performances in 2023  

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The Met: Live in HD – January to June 2023 

Tim Yip’s set design for Parsifal

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of high-definition cinema broadcasts, distributed in the UK by Trafalgar Releasing, offers a unique opportunity to visit New York from the comfort of your local cinema in 2023. From January – June 2023, seven incredible performances will be broadcast live from the Met stage in New York to cinemas worldwide. Audiences will also enjoy exclusive behind-the-scenes access, including backstage interviews with artists and more.

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English Touring Opera’s national tour Spring 2023

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English Touring Opera’s Spring season 25 February – 27 May 2023

English Touring Opera presents two brand new productions of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia and Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims in Spring 2023

Spring season also includes a revival of the acclaimed 2020 production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare

London, Poole, Sheffield, Norwich, York, Durham, Chester, Cambridge, Snape, Canterbury, Cheltenham, Buxton, Leamington Spa and Exeter

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