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Tippetts hochdramatisches A Child of Our Time in Nürnberg

Patrick Hahn © Musikfest ION
Abschluss des Musikfests ION Nürnberg: Michael Tippetts Oratorium A Child of Our Time erzählt angesichts der Nazi-Herrschaft eine bewegende Geschichte der Menschlichkeit, Überwindung von Gewalt und der Versöhnung.
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Peter Grimes a raging, powerful, defiant start to the new ENO season

Gwyn Hughes Jones (Peter Grimes) © Tom Bowles
English National Opera opens its new season with a revival of David Alden's masterly production. 
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Strauss à la Fellini: Ariadne auf Naxos at Opera North

Elizabeth Llewellyn (Ariadne) and Ric Furman (Bacchus) © Richard Hubert Smith
Rodula Gaitanou sets Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's comedy in the Cinecittà film studios of the 1950s. 
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Vivid late autumn colours from Martyn Brabbins and the BBCSSO

Elizabeth Llewellyn © Shirley Suarez

The programme featured Sibelius's vividly terrifying Tapiola, alongside a gorgeous Four Last Songs with Elizabeth Llewellyn and Vaughan Williams's wistful Fifth Symphony.

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Manze steers the BBC ship as Brits make waves in the Royal Albert Hall

Andrew Manze © BBC | Chris Christodoulou
 “Behold, the sea itself!” Prom 16 is all at sea with Doreen Carwithen's Bishop Rock and Grace Williams' Sea Sketches ahead of RVW's great Sea Symphony.
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Engaging with the past at the Three Choirs Festival

The Philharmonia in Hereford Cathedral © Dale Hodgetts and James O'Driscoll
Rolf Martinsson opts for clichéd opulence in his song cycle Ich denke Dein…, while Emilia Hoving delivers a sublime, conflicted account of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.
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