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Vladimir Jurowski conducts Haydn, Kurtág, and Adams in a welcome return to the LPO

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom On the Transmigration of Souls – Haydn, Kurtág, Adams: Anna Devin (soprano), Hanna Hipp (mezzo-soprano), Rupert Charlesworth (tenor), Trevor Eliot Bowes (bass), Tiffin Youth Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, Jonathan Green (sound designer), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 18.1.2025. (CC)

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Erina Takahashi is bidding farewell as an ENB dancer in their delicate and poignant Giselle

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mary Skeaping’s Giselle: Dancers of English National Ballet, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Gavin Sutherland(conductor), London Coliseum, 15.1.2025. (JO’D)

Erina Takahashi (Giselle) and Francesco Gabriele Frola (Albrecht) in Mary Skeaping’s Giselle © Photography by ASH

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Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony’s Barbican Hall musical journey from Venezuela to Russia

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Odisea – Lorenz, Grau, Tchaikovsky: Jorge Glem (Venezuelan cuatro), Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 16.2.2025. (CC)

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela © Nohely Oliveros

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Intense, all-encompassing Mahler from Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mahler: Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Tiffin Choirs children’s choir, London Symphony Chorus, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 15.1.2025. (CK)

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony in Barbican Hall © Mark Allan

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Michieletto’s absinthe-fuelled Tales of Hoffmann for The Royal Opera gets a delightful musical performance

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Offenbach, The Tales of Hoffmann (Les contes d’Hoffmann): Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Filmed (directed by Rhodri Huw) at the Royal Ballet and Opera in November 2024 and shown at the Everyman Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 15.1.2025. (JPr)

Julie Boulianne (rear, Nicklausse) and Juan Diego Flórez (Hoffmann) © Camilla Greenwell

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