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The Met’s innovative and engaging new production of Don Giovanni features an outstanding cast

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United StatesUnited States Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera, New York / Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor). Broadcast Live in HD to Dundonald Omniplex Cinema, Belfast, 20.5.2023. (RB)

The cast of The Met’s new Don Giovanni © Karen Almond

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June 2023: Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts The Met Orchestra in Paris, London, and Baden-Baden

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The Met Orchestra to embark on international tour in June 2023, its first in more than 20 years

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to lead orchestra with stops in Paris, London, and Baden-Baden

Concerts to feature Met stars Angel Blue, Joyce DiDonato, and Russell Thomas

Works include Act IV of Verdi’s Otello, selections from Berlioz’s Les Troyens, and music by Bernstein, Matthew Aucoin, and Tchaikovsky

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‘Waiting for the Barbarians’: New sounds celebrate Greek poet C. P. Cavafy

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United StatesUnited States Various – Archive of Desire, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’: Eleni Calenos (soprano), Rufus Wainwright (singer), Helga Davis (performance artist), Laurie Anderson (narrator and tape-bow violin), Petros Klampanis (double bass), Brooklyn Youth Chorus / Dianne Berkun Menaker (conductor), The Knights / Eric Jacobsen (conductor). St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York, 2.5.2023. (RP)

‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue © Kevin Condon

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Grace and sophistication in Hamburg Philharmonic’s Carnegie Hall concert

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United StatesUnited States Brahms, Beethoven, Shepherd: Jan Vogler (cellist), Audi Jugendchorakademie, Members of Hamburger Alsterspatzen, Soloists of Dresden Kreuzchor, YoungClassX Ensemble, Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano (conductor). Carnegie Hall, New York. 22.4.2023 (DS)

Kent Nagano conducts the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra © Chris Lee

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