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 The BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Keith Lockhart, presents a showcase of the life and music of lyricist and composer, Stephen Sondheim, at the Southbank Centre on Sunday November 10th.  Sondheim: Inside Out is the Orchestra’s final performance as Artistic Partner of the festival entitled The Rest is Noise which has been running throughout the…

“We are New York City Ballet.  We Invite You Into Our World.”  Thus reads the strapline, and that’s exactly what one of the world’s foremost ballet companies has done, in a video documentary which has just gone live on AOL On. Entitled city.ballet., this documentary takes you beyond the footlights, the costumes and the glamour…

Since opening in the Principality of Monaco in 2007, the Grimaldi Forum’s exhibition, The Grace Kelly Years, Princess of Monaco, has been enchanting visitors around the world.  Initially conceived and presented as one of the Forum’s headline summer exhibitions, this tribute to the legendary woman who moved so effortlessly and stylishly from a career in…

Having recently returned from a tour to Asia, the BBC Symphony Orchestra resumes its 2013-14 season at the Barbican, a season which has more than a breath of French air about it – featuring, as it does, six French conductors, ten French soloists and music by 22 different French composers. The first programme, on October…

Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet has just opened its Fall Home Season in San Francisco, with two premieres – the first San Francisco performance of Writing Ground, created for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and the world premiere of a new work – Concerto for Two Violins – set to the music of J C Bach. LINES…

Anthony Minghella’s sublime production of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly returns to the London Coliseum this month – its fifth revival since it was first presented by English National Opera in London in 2005.  A co-production with the Metropolitan Opera New York and the Lithuanian National Opera, Madam Butterfly launched the artistic relationship between ENO and the…

San Francisco Ballet’s New York season continues on October 23 with a premiere performance for the city – Christopher Wheeldon’s highly creative production of Cinderella which played to sold-out houses when it opened in San Francisco earlier this year. A co-production with Dutch National Ballet, this presentation of Cinderella – set to Prokofiev’s glorious score…

San Francisco Ballet heads for New York City this coming week, with a showcase of mixed-bill programs, followed by the New York premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s spectacularly successful production of Cinderella. Founded in 1933, San Francisco Ballet is America’s oldest professional ballet company and one of the three largest in the United States.  Having performed…

Strauss’ classic comedy operetta Die Fledermaus has been a favourite with audiences since its first production in Vienna on April 5th, 1874.  It’s colourful, frivolous and fun, bubbling over with wonderfully memorable melodies – but it’s probably never been quite so much fun as English National Opera’s new production.  Racy, risqué and sophisticated, this is…

The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles is about to reach its 10th anniversary, and to mark this momentous occasion, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presents insideOUT, a month-long season of special celebratory events which opens this week. Led by Music Director Gustavo Dudamel, and featuring Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen, insideOUT celebrates Community, Collaboration and…