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Cast and orchestra bring down the house in Met Opera’s glowing Turandot revival

By Susan Stempleski, 23 September 2025

With a standout cast, fine orchestral playing under Carlo Rizzi, and newly refurbished sets, Zeffirelli’s 1987 staging of Puccini’s epic fairy tale appears as bright as ever.

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New York City

23 Sep 2025

Cast and orchestra bring down the house in Met’s glowing Turandot

By Susan Stempleski

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London

Stealing away to friendship and joy: Tippett and Beethoven embrace at the Barbican

By Christopher Woodley, 23 March 2025

An evocative reading of Tippett's early masterpiece sits proudly alongside a blistering performance of Beethoven's lasting gift to the world.

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London

23 Mar 2025

Stealing away to friendship and joy: LSO plays Tippett and Beethoven

By Christopher Woodley

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London

The LSO and Pappano's Sea Symphony sweeps all before it

By Chris Garlick, 09 February 2025

Another British music extravaganza from Sir Antonio Pappano and LSO proves to be a hit for an enthusiastic full house at the Barbican.

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London

09 Feb 2025

The LSO and Pappano's Sea Symphony sweeps all before it

By Chris Garlick

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Manchester

An overwhelming Resurrection from The Hallé and Kahchun Wong

By Rohan Shotton, 16 January 2025

In Bridgewater Hall, Kahchun Wong conducts the second Mahler symphony of his Hallé tenure.

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Manchester

16 Jan 2025

An overwhelming Resurrection from The Hallé and Kahchun Wong

By Rohan Shotton

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London

Magnificent Elijah from Pappano and the LSO

By Roy Westbrook, 28 January 2024

Sir Antonio Pappano leads the massed forces of the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra in a rousing rendition of Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio.

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London

28 Jan 2024

Magnificent Elijah from Pappano and the LSO

By Roy Westbrook

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Edinburgh

A Child of Our Time: deeply moving and impressive at the Edinburgh International Festival

By David Smythe, 20 August 2023

The RSNO, Sir Andrew Davis and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus perform Tippett's oratorio with an excellent line-up of soloists.

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Edinburgh

20 Aug 2023

A Child of Our Time: deeply moving and impressive in Edinburgh

By David Smythe

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London

Green shoots: the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the Proms

By Dominic Lowe, 05 August 2023

Prieto conducted the young musicians in three compositions from the 1940s which showed the budding talent to which we have to look forward.

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London

05 Aug 2023

Green shoots: the National Youth Orchestra at the Proms

By Dominic Lowe

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London

Andrei Serban's Turandot returns once more to the Royal Opera House

By Dominic Lowe, 10 March 2023

Riddle me this: what is the result of combining Andrei Serban's beloved staging of Turandot with Antonio Pappano's first stage outing of the piece? Answer: a thrilling evening.

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London

10 Mar 2023

Andrei Serban's Turandot returns once more to the Royal Opera House

By Dominic Lowe

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Rome

A weighty hymn of praise at the Santa Cecilia

By Mark Pullinger, 26 November 2022

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha is the pick of the soloists in a weighty reading of Mendelssohn's Lobgesang under Kazuki Yamada. But can Schubert's Fifth withstand the same approach?

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Rome

26 Nov 2022

A weighty hymn of praise at the Santa Cecilia

By Mark Pullinger

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London

Back with a bang: Verdi's Requiem opens the BBC Proms season in grand style

By Mark Pullinger, 15 July 2022

A huge hall, a huge orchestra and a huge chorus letting rip with a monster of the choral repertoire… We've missed this.

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London

15 Jul 2022

Back with a bang: Verdi's Requiem opens the BBC Proms season

By Mark Pullinger

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Manchester

Premier League Vaughan Williams from The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder

By Rohan Shotton, 30 April 2022

Memorable performances of Vaughan Williams' darkest and brightest symphonies at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

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Manchester

30 Apr 2022

Premier League Vaughan Williams from The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder

By Rohan Shotton

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London

Jaunty Mahler from Ádám Fischer and the OAE

By Mark Pullinger, 08 March 2022

With his impish grin, the Hungarian conductor revels in Mahler's “heavenly” Fourth Symphony as clothed in refreshing period instrument colours.

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London

08 Mar 2022

Jaunty Mahler from Ádám Fischer and the OAE

By Mark Pullinger

London

The present and the future of opera: JPYA summer performance at Covent Garden

By Kevin W Ng, 17 July 2021

The Jette Parker Young Artists take on their most ambitious programme yet, showcasing some of the most promising Verdian voices of the future.

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London

17 Jul 2021

The present and the future of opera: JPYA summer performance

By Kevin W Ng

London

A live audience returns to Covent Garden, but those watching at home get the better deal

By Stephen Pritchard, 17 October 2020

Christine Rice gives an astonishingly performance in an evening of four powerful chamber pieces.

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London

17 Oct 2020

A live audience returns to Covent Garden

By Stephen Pritchard

London

JPYA make a decent fist of Handel's Susanna in the Linbury Theatre

By Mark Valencia, 05 March 2020

The evening’s most unbuttoned applause was reserved for two native anglophone artists, countertenor Patrick Terry and bass-baritone Michael Mofidian.

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London

05 Mar 2020

JPYA make a decent fist of Handel's Susanna in the Linbury Theatre

By Mark Valencia

London

Great Britten: Death in Venice returns to Covent Garden in superb new staging

By Mark Pullinger, 21 November 2019

Benjamin Britten's final opera hasn't been staged by The Royal Opera in over 25 years, but his setting of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice receives a great new production by Sir David McVicar.

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London

21 Nov 2019

Great Britten: Death in Venice returns to Covent Garden

By Mark Pullinger

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Brussels

Alain Altinoglu conduit ses forces de la Monnaie au triomphe dans le Requiem de Verdi

By Patrice Lieberman, 13 November 2024

Des forces orchestrales et chorales exemplaires, des solistes de premier plan et un chef inspiré : il n'a rien manqué à l'œuvre de Verdi, écoutée dans un silence religieux par une salle captivée.

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Brussels

13 Nov 2024

Le Requiem de Verdi triomphal d'Alain Altinoglu à la Monnaie

By Patrice Lieberman