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Royal Albert Hall, London © Igor Sporynin | Unsplash

Royal Albert Hall, London

© Igor Sporynin | Unsplash

Symphony Hall, Birmingham © Page Park - Matthew Westgate 2021

Symphony Hall, Birmingham

© Page Park - Matthew Westgate 2021

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music © Karl Moran

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

© Karl Moran

Royal Albert Hall, London © Igor Sporynin | Unsplash

Royal Albert Hall, London

© Igor Sporynin | Unsplash

Symphony Hall, Birmingham © Page Park - Matthew Westgate 2021

Symphony Hall, Birmingham

© Page Park - Matthew Westgate 2021

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music © Karl Moran

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

© Karl Moran

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Katherine McIndoe © Matthew Ferguson

One woman with many faces: a new operatic double bill

Mark-Anthony Turnage © James Bellorini

Mark-Anthony Turnage returns to Festen

Sabrina Lenzi and Kevin O’Hare in Sir Frederick Ashton’s Birthday Offering © Bill Cooper, 1995

Reviving Sir Frederick Ashton’s Birthday Offering

Marion Tait as the Mother, Joseph Cipolla as Death, Karen Waldie as the Woman in The Green Table © Leslie E Spatt 1992

Before the war came: why The Green Table is urgent today

Juilliard rehearsing Wayne McGregor's Augmented © Jessica Wright

Triple threat! McGregor, Rambert and Juilliard Schools

Anne Sofie von Otter © Ewa-Marie Rundquist

From Paris to Weimar with Anne Sofie von Otter

The Royal College of Music © Phil Rowley

Training opera’s next generation at the RCM

Bridgewater Hall auditorium © Sharyn Bellemakers | The Hallé

Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and beyond

Cassa Pancho, Artistic Director of Ballet Black © Ollo Weguelin

Breaking barriers: 25 years of Ballet Black

Mark Ravenhill © bec.photography | @becphoto

Mark Ravenhill gets his teeth into Salome

Birmingham Royal Ballet in Sir Peter Wright's The Nutcracker © Johan Persson

Sofia Liñares on Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker

London walks

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre © India Roper-Evans | Southbank Centre

A walk to the Southbank Centre

View of Kings Place © Monika S Jakubowska

A walk through King’s Cross via Kings Place

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Vatalaro, Tinker, McNeill, Ziminska, McDermott, Housley, Davis, Grenfell, Thomas, Wright, Wright, Etuk, Llewellyn

BBC Proms

Royal Albert Hall

Thu 20 Aug at 19:00

Rodrigo, Gershwin, Davis

Hazama, Harris, Akinmusire, Raghavan, Brown, BBC Concert Orchestra

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Holland Park Theatre

Thu 20 Aug at 19:30

Trouble in Tahiti, The Seven Deadly Sins

Wake-Edwards, Perboni, Gaston, Opera Prelude, Holton, Moon, Lidbetter, Hetherington, Haigh, Gowler, Kayne, Nicolaides

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Nicky Spence © André Godinho

Coleridge-Taylor’s The Song of Hiawatha reappraised at the Edinburgh International Festival

By David Smythe

Steven Osborne © Benjamin Ealovega

Edinburgh International Festival launches its Alfred Brendel tribute

By Simon Thompson

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra © BBC | Chris Christodoulou

Rumble! A Berlioz Requiem to shake the soul at the BBC Proms

By Mark Pullinger