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The Nice Philharmonic Orchestra brings the 2021/22 season to a close with a programme of music by Smetana, Tchaikovsky and Dvořák. The concerts are led by Niçois Lionel Bringuier – the Philharmonic’s Artiste Associé – with guest soloist Parisian cellist Edgar Moreau. Edgar Moreau charted the course of his career at a young age, becoming…

In the second production of its new season at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco Opera stages the return of Dream of the Red Chamber. A Company-commissioned work, Dream of the Red Chamber is based on the classic 18th century Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin, with a score by Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng, who…

Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra and Co-Founder and Artistic Director Laureate of the New World Symphony in Miami, this week leads the Czech Philharmonic in a programme of music by Aaron Copland and Franz Schubert. The featured works are Copland’s ballet score…

San Francisco Opera opens its new season with the final part of its multi-year Mozart-Da Ponte Trilogy in which the Company has presented all three collaborations by Mozart with librettist Lorenzo De Ponte. Each of these productions has been set in the same American house at different stages of a 300-year span. With production once…

German conductor Ruth Reinhardt makes her debut with the San Francisco Symphony in a concert which stars Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov performing the West Coast Premiere of Mason Bates’ new Piano Concerto, co-commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The program opens with Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski’s Om fotspår och ljus (Of…

On 19th May, The Royal Ballet presents Tchaikovsky’s legendary Swan Lake live in cinemas around the United Kingdom, with an encore on Sunday 22nd May. This revival – based on the original choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov – is by the late Liam Scarlett, a former dancer with the company and Artist in…

As part of its ongoing The Met: Live in HD series, the Metropolitan Opera streams Puccini’s grand opera Turandot in cinemas the world over this coming weekend. This spectacular production, by Italian director, designer, and producer of opera, theatre, motion pictures and television, the late Franco Zeffirelli, is described by the Huffington Post as “….…

It is gratifying to see how many arts organisations are giving performances in support of the people of Ukraine, and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo is no exception. This month, the Company dedicates the opening performance of Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Œil pour Œil to this inspirational cause. Created in 2001, and originally premiered at the Grimaldi Forum…

Gustavo Dudamel, surely one of the most charismatic conductors of his time, leads the San Francisco Symphony this week in a program of music by Mozart and Mahler. The featured works are Mozart’s Symphony No 38 in D major, known as the Prague Symphony, and Mahler’s Symphony No 5. Music and Artistic Director of the…

Over the next week, the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin returns to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, where it opened on March 25th. Produced by Deborah Warner, Eugene Onegin stars soprano Ailyn Pérez as Tatiana, baritone Igor Golovatenko as Onegin, mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan as Tatiana’s sister Olga,…