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SEEN AND HEARD'S RECENT REVIEWS

  • Cav and Pag: Michieletto’s splendid production at Covent Garden is revived once again (01/12/2023)
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  • Schubert is a great success in an Edinburgh concert of two halves from the SCO Chorus (01/12/2023) __________________________________
  • Turandot is back at the Liceu in an updated version of the Nuria Espert production (01/12/2023) __________________________________
  • Conductor swap and pianistic brilliance from Noseda, Piemontesi and the Tonhalle Orchestra (30/11/2023) __________________________________
  • The fraught love story of Frida and Diego is turned into myth at LA Opera  (28/11/2023) __________________________________
  • Cross-cultural impulses inspire the opening concert of Hong Kong Musicus Society’s 2023 festival (28/11/2023) __________________________________
  • A high-level cast and ‘La Dolce Vita’ setting charm from the get-go in San Francisco Opera’s The Elixir of Love (27/11/2023) __________________________________
  • An outstanding Daughter of the Regiment at Lyric Opera of Chicago (27/11/2023) __________________________________
  • Exuberant full house for Chineke! greets Joan Armatrading’s symphonic debut (27/11/2023) __________________________________
  • Elder statesman steps in to conduct a majestic Mahler’s Third with the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall (27/11/2023) __________________________________
  • Near-overwhelming Glanert and fine Brahms from Bychkov and the BBC SO (27/11/2023) __________________________________
  • Gustavo Dudamel and a cuatro virtuoso take San Francisco Symphony on a great ride (26/11/2023) __________________________________
  • The autumn season of Jamiel Devernay-Laurence’s Ballet Nights reaches its Grande Finale (26/11/2023) __________________________________
  • AAM’s revelatory, richly satisfying, Command Performance: Music for an Empress (25/11/2023) __________________________________
  • Sudbury Choral Society’s gutsy Mozart Requiem with outstanding soloists (24/11/2023) __________________________________
  • INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES, NEWS, AND SEASON PREVIEWS

    • Symphony Orchestra of India returns to the UK this November and December (27/11/2023)
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  • London’s Opera Holland Park in 2024 (18/11/2023) __________________________________
  • Hampshire’s The Grange Festival in 2024 (18/11/2023) __________________________________
  • R.I.P. BRITISH BASS-BARITONE KEEL WATSON (1964-2023) (09/11/2023) __________________________________
  • Updated! English National Ballet in 2023/24: introducing Maria Seletskaja their new music director (07/11/2023) __________________________________
  • CALLAS – PARIS, 1958 in cinemas soon should not be missed by opera lovers of whatever vintage (06/11/2023) __________________________________
  • Gregor Tassie in conversation with soprano Ayla Dobreva (31/10/2023) __________________________________
  • Robert Beattie in conversation with pianist Sandro Russo (24/10/2023) __________________________________
  • Further news on the future of English National Opera (16/10/2023) __________________________________
  • Chelsea Opera Group’s Un ballo in maschera on 22 October opened their 2023-24 London season (10/10/2023) __________________________________
  • Geoffrey Newman in conversation with conductor Gerard Schwarz (07/10/2023) __________________________________
  • Gregor Tassie in conversation with mezzo-soprano Gergana Rusekova (06/10/2023) __________________________________
  • Christian Thielemann to become new General Music Director of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (27/09/2023) __________________________________
  • Gregor Tassie in conversation with conductor Constantin Trinks (16/09/2023) __________________________________
  • Creative Scotland declines to fund this year’s Lammermuir Festival (15/09/2023) __________________________________
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