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July 18, 2022
Programme announced for CBeebies Prom: Ocean Adventure
The BBC Proms today announces the full programme for the CBeebies Prom, taking place on Saturday 23 July at 11am and 3pm at the Royal Albert Hall. Created especially for the Proms’ youngest audience members, it features music reflecting…
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July 14, 2022
Britten Pears Arts announces its Autumn 2022 season
Britten Pears Arts announces its Autumn 2022 season  Highlights include: Two performances of Laura Bowler and Laura Lomas’ new opera The Blue Woman directed by Katie MitchellFestival of New presents three days…
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July 13, 2022
Sad news: Bramwell Tovey, Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, has died
We are deeply saddened by the news that Bramwell Tovey, Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, has died. Keen to popularise classical music, he was also a successful composer,…
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March 17, 2022
Pianist Orli Shaham joins Juilliard piano faculty
This week, the Juilliard School announced that Orli Shaham is joining the prestigious school’s piano faculty in the 2022-23 academic year. Ms. Shaham is an alumna of the school (Pre-College ’93; and the cross-registration…
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March 16, 2022
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra announces 2022/23 Assistant Conductors cohort
The CBSO has announced the appointment of six new Assistant Conductors. Marking the first time the orchestra has appointed a cohort of Assistant Conductors, the scheme also builds on the orchestra’s…
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March 11, 2022
VERBIER FESTIVAL GOLD, A JOINT LABEL FROM THE VERBIER FESTIVAL AND DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, UNEARTHS TREASURES FROM THE ARCHIVES AND PRESENTS STUNNING CONCERT RECORDINGS
The Verbier Festival and Deutsche Grammophon are delighted to announce the launch of Verbier Festival Gold – a joint venture between the two classical music powerhouses. Boasting a vast archive overflowing with…
March 7, 2022
Opera Holland Park announces a new commission for 2023
Opera Holland Park is delighted to announce a new commission and world premiere for 2023: Itch. Based on Simon Mayo’s bestselling novels Itch and Itch Rocks, composer Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton…
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March 4, 2022
John Andrews Conducts Concert for International Women’s Day 
On Friday 11 March 2022, award-winning conductor John Andrews will conduct a concert to mark International Women’s Day with British mezzo-soprano Heather Lowe and St Paul’s Sinfonia. The concert features Louise Farrenc’s Overture in E flat, Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, Emilie Mayer’s Symphony in…
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February 11, 2022
Mozart’s rollercoaster comic opera Così fan tutte returns to the English National Opera
This March, the ‘hilarious production’ that ‘combines clever comedy and sublime arias’ (Daily Express), Mozart’s Così fan tutte returns to the English National Opera (ENO). Last staged in 2014, Mozart’s dark comic…
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February 8, 2022
American Countertenor RANDALL SCOTTING Debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper in premiere of Thomasby Georg Friedrich Haas
In an evocative new staging, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, “the world’s opera capital” (The New York Times) presents a production of the opera Thomas as part of its 2022 its ”Ja Mai”…