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BBC SO Total Immersion: music from the prison camps thoughtfully anticipates Holocaust Memorial Day

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC SO Total Immersion – Music for the End of Time: Soloists, Simon Wallfisch (baritone), Guildhall School Musicians, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Alpesh Chauhan, Nicholas Chalmers, Josep Pons (conductors). Barbican Hall, Milton Court Concert Hall, London, 23.1.2022. (MB)

Der Kaiser von Atlantis – Hanna Hipp (Drummer Girl), Thomas Johannes Mayer (Kaiser Overall) and Robert Murray (Harlekin) (c) Mark Allan

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It’s only January but OAE’s triumphant Aci, Galatea e Polifemo might be one of the events of the year

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Handel, Demons in the Bath: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo: Zoë Brookshaw (soprano, Aci); Bethany Horak-Hallett (mezzo-soprano, Galatea); Trevor Bowes (bass, Polifemo); Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Steven Devine (director, harpsichord). Cadogan Hall, London, 23.1.2022. (CC)

Aci, Galatea e Polifemo at Cadogan Hall (c) OAE

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Verdi’s La forza del destino gets a new staging and new orchestration from Regents Opera

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Regents Opera (formerly Fulham Opera) present La forza del destino
16 February – 5 March 2022 at St John’s Church, Fulham, London

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  • Regents Opera (the new name for Fulham Opera) to stage Verdi’s La forza del destino
  • New orchestration for 11 instruments by Ben Woodward
  • New production directed by Rory Fazan
  • Regents Opera are the most ambitious fringe opera company in London, having staged numerous major works including Don Carlo, Falstaff, Die Meistersinger and a complete Ring cycle since their founding in 2011
  • Recent 5star Opera Now review and 4star The Times review for 2021 Die ägyptische Helena

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Opera Holland Park in Summer 2022

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Five new productions to celebrate the return of summer

Opera Holland Park’s 2022 new productions of the classic nineteenth-century tragedies Eugene Onegin and Carmen take us from the palaces of St Petersburg to the streets of Seville. The UK premiere of Mark Adamo’s 1998 opera Little Women leads to progressive New England, where Jo March recalls her first love in the shadow of the American Civil War. A double bill of Delius’s Parisian melodrama Margot la Rouge and Puccini’s Gothic fantasy Le Villi contrasts a crime of passion with supernatural punishment, while a co-production of HMS Pinafore with Charles Court Opera proves that no one can mock English mores more successfully than the English themselves. The City of London Sinfonia returns as resident orchestra for all five productions.

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