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EdinburghSeason Finale: Ode to Joy
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Mendelssohn Bartholdy, MacMillan, Beethoven
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Patrick Hahn; Eleanor Dennis; Karen Cargill; Joshua Ellicott; Andrew Hamilton
GlasgowSeason Finale: Ode to Joy
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Mendelssohn Bartholdy, MacMillan, Beethoven
Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Patrick Hahn; Eleanor Dennis; Karen Cargill; Joshua Ellicott; Andrew Hamilton
PaisleyMozart's Requiem with BBC Singers & Eric Whitacre (Paisley Abbey)
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Whitacre, Walker, Shaw, Mozart
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Eric Whitacre; Eleanor Dennis; BBC Singers
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Doomed Dutchman wants a wife: Wagner makes Opera Holland Park debut
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Amid the rough winds of late May, Julia Burbach directs Opera Holland Park's first venture into Wagner – The Flying Dutchman.
Bly or Bedlam? ENO’s new The Turn of the Screw
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Isabella Bywater directs an evocative new production of Britten’s ghost opera, well performed at the Coliseum.
An enthralling Walküre at Longborough Opera Festival
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Who wouldn't relish the chance of seeing a Ring cycle at close quarters? Longborough's Die Walküre isn't perfect, but it consistently delivers on the story and on character interpretation.
Prescient then, terrifying now: The Handmaid’s Tale at ENO
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Margaret Atwood’s dystopic novel, masterfully adapted for the operatic stage, is strongly performed at ENO and rings even truer today than it did when it was written.
Lucid in music and narrative: ENO's Rhinegold
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Martyn Brabbins conducts an excellent ENO orchestra and consistently good ensemble cast as Richard Jones delivers a wealth of narrative detail to introduce Wagner's Ring.
The Grange Festival opens with Britten's Dream
Britten's four lovers were costumed in quasi-contemporary, even glamorous manner, stripping to their underwear for the end of Act 2... so more Love Island than Ancient Athens.