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LondonLessons in Love and ViolenceHalbszenische Aufführung

© Jason Bell
Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence
Edward Gardner; Dan Ayling; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Nathaniel Sullivan; Georgia Jarman; Gyula Orendt

LondonLaurence Kilsby / Toby Spence / James Newby / James Baillieu

Wigmore Hall
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Laurence Kilsby; Toby Spence; James Newby; James Baillieu

AlresfordEugene OneginNeuinszenierung

Ruzan Mantashyan (Tatyana) © Richard Hubert Smith
Tschaikowsky: Eugen Onegin
Lidiya Yankovskaya; Max Webster; The Grange Festival; Frankie Bradshaw; Jack Knowles; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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Thomas Adès‘ The Tempest verzaubert an der Wiener Staatsoper

Caroline Wettergreen (Ariel) © Wiener Staatsoper | Michael Pöhn
Ewig faszinierender Shakespeare in zeitgenössischer Musik und modernem Gewand, das „hat was“.
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Compelling Ruzan Mantashyan makes the Grange’s Onegin unmissable

Ruzan Mantashyan (Tatyana) © Richard Hubert Smith
The Armenian soprano makes her Grange Festival debut – a casting coup that proves the single most compelling reason to see Max Webster’s new production.
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Charting new waters: Flying Dutchman brings Wagner back to Ireland

Jordan Shanahan (Dutchman) © Patrick Redmond
Ireland’s first Wagner opera in over a decade dazzles with a captivating production by Rachael Hewer for Irish National Opera. 
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Sir Bryn Terfel anchors The Royal Opera's Holländer revival

Sir Bryn Terfel (Dutchman) and Elisabet Strid (Senta) © ROH | Tristram Kenton
Terfel's performance as the legendary sailor is stronger than ever and, one or two issues aside, this revival of Tim Albery's production is a compelling account of Wagner's first mature work. 
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Hearing in colour: Kochanovsky conducts ecstatic Scriabin

Stanislav Kochanovsky © Mark Allan
Multi-sensory music? Scriabin's Prometheus, Poem of Fire tickles the senses in an ecstatic performance under Stanislav Kochanovsky. 
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Janáček crowns the LPO's coronation day concert

Alina Ibragimova, Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra © London Philharmonic Orchestra
After a rare treat to hear Tippett's commemoration of King Charles' birth and Alina Ibragimova's Mendelssohn, the crowning achievement of this concert is Edward Gardner's majestic reading of Janáček's Glagolitic Mass.
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