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EdinburghBach St Matthew Passion

© Christopher Bowen
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Maxim Emelyanychev; Nick Pritchard; Matthew Brook; Hilary Cronin

GlasgowBach St Matthew Passion

© Christopher Bowen
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Maxim Emelyanychev; Nick Pritchard; Matthew Brook; Hilary Cronin

PooleMessiah

© Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Handel: Messiah
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Paul McCreesh; Bournemouth Symphony Chorus; Anna Dennis; Anna Harvey; Thomas Walker

OsloEaster Concert: Hear Bach's St John Passion

Oslo Philharmonic
Bach: St John Passion, BWV245
Oslo Philharmonic; Richard Egarr; Joshua Ellicott; Matthew Brook; Berit Norbakken Solset; Marianne Beate Kielland
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Opera North’s Susanna: how a woman stood up to her abusers

Anna Dennis (Susanna), Tony Polo and Aaron Chaplin from Phoenix Dance Theatre © Tristram Kenton
Handel's oratorio is staged by Olivia Fuchs and conducted by Johanna Soller in Opera North's latest successful collaboration with Phoenix Dance Theatre. 
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The power of words: Mendelssohn’s Elijah closes the Three Choirs

Matthew Brook © Laura Bremer
The closing concert of this year’s Three Choirs Festival in Hereford delivers a dramatic account of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, showcasing the power of bass-baritone Matthew Brook.
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Academy of Ancient Music are inspired in Handel's Orlando

Iestyn Davies and the Academy of Ancient Music © Mark Allan | Barbican
“A concert performance with neither scenery nor action would be a sacrilege,” wrote one authority of this opera. Nobody told the Academy of Ancient Music...
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Aleko on the Arno: Bryn Terfel leads fine new GPO double bill

Sir Bryn Terfel (Gianni Schicchi) © Marc Brenner

An unlikely pairing opens Grange Park Opera's season, the two works united by the dominant central character of each opera – Sir Bryn Terfel.

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Leipzig 300: Dunedin Consort explores the Thomaskantor shortlist

John Crockatt © Dunedin Consort
The Dunedin Consort explores the 1723 Thomaskantor shortlist:  Georg Philipp Telemann, Christoph Graupner and Johann Sebastian Bach in a programme directed by John Butt. 
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The devil is in the detail: Stephen Layton’s Hallé Messiah

Jess Dandy and Hilary Cronin © Bill Lam, The Hallé
The Hallé orchestra and choir pack out Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall for a Messiah which both delights and disappoints. 
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ParisAriodanteNew production

Répétition d'Ariodante à l'Opéra national de Paris © E. Bauer / Opéra national de Paris
Handel: Ariodante
Harry Bicket; Robert Carsen; Opéra national de Paris; Luis F Carvalho; Peter van Praet; The English Concert

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Handel: Samson
Harry Bicket; The English Concert; Stuart Jackson; Paula Murrihy; Matthew Brook