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Anna Netrebko, Freddie De Tommaso, Marina Rebeka, Bryn Terfel, Aigul Akhmetshina, Lisette Oropesa, Juan Diego Flórez & Pretty Yende Lead Royal Ballet & Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” in a new production by Oliver Mears. Anna Netrebko and Aleksandra Kurzak share the title role. Freddie De Tommaso and Gerald Finley also star. Performance Dates: Sept. 11-Oct. 7, 2025 Speranza Scappucci conducts Verdi’s “I vespri siciliani” in a revival of Stefan Herheim’s production. Marina {…}

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English Touring Opera Announces 2023-24 Season & New Initiatives

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(Photo credit: Richard Hubert Smith) Robin Norton-Hale, the General Director of the English Touring Opera (ETO), has unveiled the company’s upcoming season and launched a multiple digital events, and educational initiatives. Beginning the position in January of this year, Notron-Hale introduced several fundamental changes to expand ETO’s work. These initiatives will feature multi-disciplinary programming, revamped repertoire, commissioned English translations of {…}

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English Touring Opera Announces 2022 ‘Handelfest’

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English Touring Opera is set to present “Handelfest” this fall. The company will showcase three operas across several cities throughout the UK. Kicking things off will be “Ottone.” The opera will star James Hall, Nazan Fikret, Kieron-Connor Valentine, Lauren Young, and Edward Jowie. Christopher Moon-Little will be the revival director with Gerry Cornelius conducting The Old Street Band. The opera {…}

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Dame Sarah Connolly, Iestyn Davies, Roderick Williams, Dorothea Röschmann, Elizabeth Llewellyn Headline Oxford Lieder Festival 2022

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The Oxford Lieder Festival has announced its 21st season. The season opens with “Culture, Counterculture, and Conviviality,” a two-part event that features a look at the salon culture, followed by a more specific look at that music world through Pauline Viardot’s own involvement. The event features speaker Natasha Loges and such artists as Charlotte Bowden, Alexandria Moon, Zahid Siddiqui, Johnathan {…}

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Kathleen Ferrier Competition Announces Winners

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The Kathleen Ferrier Competition has announced its winners. The finals, which were held on April 22, saw Esme Bronwen-Smith win the first prize of £12,500. The second prize went to Emma Roberts who took home £6,000.  She also won the Loveday Song Prize for her performance of Debussy’s Colloque sentimental. The Help Musicians Accompanist Prize was awarded to Avishka Edirisinghe. {…}

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Kathleen Ferrier Competition Announces Finalists

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The Kathleen Ferrier Competition has announced its finalists. The competition, which will take place on Friday, April 22, 22022 in Wigmore Hall, will see each singer perform alongside a pianist. The finalists are soprano Elena Zamudio and pianist Bradley Wood, bass-baritone Charles Cunliffe and pianist Francesca Orlando, mezzo-soprano Emma Roberts and pianist Lucy Colquhoun, soprano Charlotte Bowden and pianist Roelof {…}