Beethoven and Brahms

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Beethoven’s “problem child”: staging Fidelio

Mark Pullinger, 31st January

We speak to three directors – Amélie Niermeyer, Tobias Kratzer and Frederic Wake-Walker – about the challenges of staging Beethoven's only opera.

A sense of theatre: Sir Antonio Pappano

Mark Pullinger, 21st November

Sir Antonio Pappano reflects on recent performances of Fidelio and Norma and how his Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia has evolved and the difficulties staging Verdi.

Sir Mark Elder brings Beethoven and Brahms to Glyndebourne

Mark Valencia, 11th December

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment gets to strut its stuff on the Glyndebourne stage in a concert of Brahms and Beethoven.

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