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Mahler and Boulez conducted by Hannu Lintu. Photo: BBC/ Andy Paradise

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Mahler probably had the right instincts in feeling that his first part needed rethinking, and indeed he spent his entire career making adjustments and alterations to his scores, but he never approached anything he did with the
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Nil Venditti and BBCNOW. Photo: Chris Christodoulou/BBC

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This was a packed and ambitious program. While some pieces, particularly the more established repertoire, appeared to suffer from a lack of sufficient rehearsal time, there were nonetheless some memorable moments.
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Dido and Aeneas Photo: Matthew Williams-Ellis

Longborough's closing offering this season pairs its emerging artists with the Norwegian ensemble Barokksolistene in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1689).
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Kuligin (Charles Cunliffe), Savël Prokofjevič Dikoj (John Tomlinson), Váňa Ku drjáš (Sam Furness)and Angel (Miryam Tomè). Káťa Kabanová, Glyndebourne Festival 2025 © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Marc Brenner

Unveiled during weather inclement enough to recall Ostrovsky’s storm over the Volga, Damiano Michieletto’s COVID-era production garnered mixed reviews on its initial outing. This first revival will fare similarly.
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Die Liebe der Danae Premiere. Photo: Geoffroy Schied

Described as a ‘cheerful mythology’ which adapts some stories about the Greek gods, Claus Guth’s new production of Strauss’s penultimate opera turns its wit into more of an urgent morality tale for our time, with a strain of satire.
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Penelope 2025. R.Shaham S.Lee D.Jones J.Williams Z.Rioux Photo: Bernd Uhlig

If Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande was the antithetical response of one French composer to the influence of Wagner – and Parsifal in particular – Fauré’s yet later Pénélope (1913) was another.
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BBC Concert Orchestra percussion celebrating Viennese-Style. Photo: BBC/ Chris Christodoulou

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Can you ever have too many slices of different gâteaux with whipped cream on top? Too many bowlfuls of strawberries and cream?
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Yunchan Lim (piano) with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kazuki Yamada. Photo: BBC/ Mark Allan

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No doubt about the main event. Yunchan Lim has been playing this Rachmaninov concerto a good deal lately, in Taiwan and South Korea as well as in Paris where I was lucky enough to nab one of the last remaining seats.
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Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste. Photo: BBC/ Chris Christodoulou

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The orgiastic orchestral opulence of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances had barely stopped resonating beyond the mushroom sound reflectors in the Royal Albert Hall, but the stage had been cleared of all but two rows of chairs
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Elsa Barraine (1940). Photo: Bibliothèque nationale de France

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The first of two pitch-perfect Proms on the last evening of July, was a cleverly programmed concerto of four works composed within a decade, spanning the outbreak of the Second World War.
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. Photo: BBC/Mark Allan

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..two orchestral masterpieces delivered masterfully. If Wigglesworth had conducted the Eroica from the score he perchance would have lifted it as he had the score of Birtwistle’s Earth Dances
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The BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Tadaaki Otaka. Photo: BBC/ Mark Allan

#BBCProms #PromsReview @BBCProms A Prom at the Royal Albert Hall is always an occasion, but tonight's concert with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the baton of Tadaaki Otaka was particularly poignant, marking Otaka’s final concert as Conductor Laurea
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Sean Shibe and Ema Nikolovska. Photo: Thomas Jackson / TyneSight Media

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This early evening Final Prom at The Glasshouse in Gateshead, "Sean Shibe and Friends," offered a fascinating and at times challenging journey through contemporary music, reprising...
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CBeebies Wildlife Jamboree. Photo: Thomas Jackson / TyneSight Media

#BBCProms #PromsReview @BBCProms is @GlasshouseICM #BBCPromsInTheNorthWest The CBeebies Prom: Wildlife Jamboree brought an hour of delightful and educational musical adventure to The Glasshouse in Gateshead, captivating a hall filled approximately three-quarte
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Teatro Nuovo Sonnambula Abigail Raiford as Lisa with Teatro Nuovo Chorus. Photo: Steven Pisano

On the second night of its two-performance visit to City Center Will Crutchfield’s Teatro Nuovo presented Vincenzo Bellini’s melodramatic La Sonnambula.
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth perform Ryan Wigglesworth: for Laura, after Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (Mariam Batsashvili piano) and Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major as part of the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall. Photo: Mark Allan / BBC

A melody heard in a dream, a tribute to a dying genius, a vision of cosmic beauty: Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 is the composer’s musical memorial to Richard Wagner.
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Photo: Thomas Jackson / TyneSight Media /BBC

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While the Bach presented its challenges, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Dinis Sousa, the soloists, and the magnificent choirs delivered a Mendelssohn that was nothing short of glorious.
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Angeline Morrison Photo: Thomas Jackson / TyneSight Media / BBC

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The Glasshouse in Gateshead recently played host to a truly remarkable and profoundly moving evening with Angeline Morrison's The Sorrow Songs (Folk Songs of Black British Experience) 
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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus ensemble and BBC Singers conducted by Karen Ní Bhroin with Claudia Winkleman as presenter perform a Prom inspired by the tv show Traitors as part of the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall Photo: Mark Allan/ BBC

By order of the Traitors, you’re invited to a spine-tingling celebration of musical treachery! Claudia Winkleman is our host as we explore this worldwide television phenomenon, with its tense and haunting sound-world.
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Teatro Nuovo Macbeth Ricardo José Rivera and Alexandra Loutsion as the Macbeths Photo: Steven Pisano

For the first performance in their two-day visit to City Center, Teatro Nuovo, a company and training institution specializing in bel canto opera established by Will Crutchfield in 2018, mounted an electrifying rendition of Verdi’s Macbeth, the first
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JADE. Photo: Thomas Jackson / TyneSight Media

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This evening’s concert marked a significant milestone: the first Prom to be televised beyond the capital, celebrating four years of the Proms' presence in Gateshead.
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The Scottish Chamber of Orcherstra conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev perform Jean‐Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes – suite, Camille Saint‐Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’ (Alexandre Kantorow: soloist), Jay Capperauld: Bruckner’s Skull and Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor as part of the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall Photo: Mark Allan/ BBC

The lure of the East runs through this Prom given by Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oromo perform Igor Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale, Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor (Augustin Hadelich: soloist), Anthony Davis: Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey and the European premiere of Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks as part of the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall on Photo: Mark Allan/ BBC

A musical bestiary – of sorts, including nightingales, both real and mechanical, a superstar violinist, a cheeky monkey and an even more cheeky medieval imp – came together for a wonderful Prom masterminded by Sakari Oramo and the Proms’ house band, the BBC
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BBC Proms Royal Albert Hall, London, UK; Photo: Chris Christodoulou/BBC

On a darkened stage, a lone trombonist, dressed as a clown, lumbered on the Royal Albert Hall stage, with outsize shoes, frock coat and orange curly wig.
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BBC Proms Royal Albert Hall, London, UK; Photo: Chris Christodoulou/BBC

Continuing the French theme of the week, whether planned or just plain serendipity, two French ensembles appeared at the Proms tonight, following Le Consort’s debut on Sunday morning and the BBC Philharmonic’s thrilling Berlioz Symphonie fantastique on
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Rivkala. Photo: Chris Caspell

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WGH Macbeth - Witches Photo: West Green Opera House

For all that Shakespeare’s Macbeth combines something of history and tragedy, it’s probably the play’s elements of fantasy and supernaturalism that stand out most in many people’s minds, and which clearly inspired Verdi and Piave to adapt it as an opera.
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Yewon Han (Ophélie) and Gregory Feldmann (Hamlet) Photo: Genevieve Girling

‘No one but a barbarian or a Frenchman would have dared to make such a lamentable burlesque of so tragic a theme’ was one English critic’s verdict on Ambroise Thomas’s adaptation of Hamlet (1868)
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Owain Rowlands and Jessica Hopkins with Richard McCabe (Leo) Photo: Genevieve Girling

If there was ever any basis for the rivalry between Mozart and Salieri, it was on the occasion of an amicable competition set up by Joseph II in 1786 (not
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Ross Cumming (3rd trio member) Harun Tekin (2nd trio member) Chloé Hare-Jones (1st trio member) Charles Rice (Sam) and Hanna Hipp (Dinah) Photo: Genevieve Girling

Although these two works were written only seven years apart, Bernstein and Poulenc are probably not composers often thought of together.
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