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Phantom in London’s West End was cut short by the pandemic last year. “It’s a shocking situation,” artistic director Lyndon Terracini said. “In all sorts of ways, it is worse than it was last year.” During Sydney’s last lockdown, OA controversially sacked 56 members of its full-time workforce, including 16 orchestral players, sparking protests and legal action. But Terracini pledged there would be no further staff cuts. “We made some horrible decisions last year which we can’t...

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When was the last time you went to the opera? No, here’s a better trivia question: what two shows are being staged by New Zealand Opera this year? Can you

Brighter days … a visitor to London’s Southbank this month. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock Brighter days … a visitor to London’s Southbank this month. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock Tue 25 May 2021 09.24 EDT Last modified on Tue 25 May 2021 09.51 EDT Perhaps not right at the top of the list of the things that most people remember about 2020 is the fact that it was the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. But on the afternoon of Sunday 16 March 2020, I w...

Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s Sibylline Prophecies 2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising Vom Pagen und der Königstochter O...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic...

Launching with an unprecedented production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold at Topgolf, Virginia Opera’s return to live performance includes La Bohème, Three Decembers, The Marriage of Figaro, and an exciting new partnership with the Virginia Arts Festival Virginia Opera is thrilled to announce the return to fully produced performances beginning in September 2021. The Season begins with Richard Wagner’s first installment in his epic Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold. This newly conceived production wi...

Verdi’s Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. ** 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, wri...

The 2021-2022 season begins with Richard Wagner’s first installment in his epic Ring Cycle, "Das Rheingold." This newly conceived production will be performed outdoors exclusively at Topgolf Virginia Beach and Topgolf Richmond.