Colin Clarke

At the Lerici Music Festival, Sir Bryn Terfel confirms he is the Falstaff of today

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ItalyItaly Lerici Music Festival’s Sir John and Sir Bryn – Verdi, Falstaff (excerpts, concert performance): Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) and soloists, Orchestra della Magna Grecia / Gianluca Marcianò (conductor). Teatro all’Aperto della Rotonda Vassallo, 6.8.2022 (CC)

Benjamin Cho, Sir Bryn Terfel, Gianluca Marcianò and Orchestra della Magna Grecia

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One Night, Two Concerts: Payare’s two very different OSM programmes, two different audiences

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CanadaCanada |One Night, Two Concerts: The OSM and Rafael Payare: Sergio Tiempo (piano), James Ehnes (violin), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Rafael Payare (conductor). Maison symphonique, Montréal, Canada, 6.30pm and 8.15pm, 12.8.2022 (CC)

Rafael Payare © Antoine Saito

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A joyous – if sonically challenged – evening with the OSM at Olympic Park

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CanadaCanada The Many Colours of the Americas: The OSM at Olympic Park: Montréal Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (author), Jeremy Dutcher (singer), Jeanine De Bique (soprano), Pacho Flores (trumpets). Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Rafael Payare (conductor). Olympic Park, Montréal, 10.8.2022. (CC)

Pacho Flores (trumpet) with the OSM conducted by Rafael Payare © Antoine Saito

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Kopatchinskaja stars as the Aurora Orchestra plays Beethoven, Shostakovich and Xenakis

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2022 [12], Prom 22 – Xenakis, Shostakovich, Beethoven: Henry Baldwin (percussion), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Tom Service (presenter), Aurora Orchestra / Nicholas Collon (conductor / presenter). Royal Albert Hall, London, 2.8.2022. (CC)

Nicholas Collon conducts the Aurora Orchestra © BBC/Mark Allan

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The BBC Proms proves Smyth’s voice is as unique and as compelling as her dramatic sense in The Wreckers

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2022 [7], Prom 13 – Smyth, The Wreckers (semi-staged, sung in French): Soloists, The Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 24.7.2022. (CC)

Lauren Fagan (Avis), James Rutherford (Laurent) and Donovan Singletary (Harvey) © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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