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Notes from the Spa: A Few Days at Kissinger Sommer
Each summer, the small German spa town of Bad Kissingen hosts Kissinger Sommer, a classical music festival that brings international artists to an otherwise quiet corner of Franconia. Jonathan Whiting caught a cross-section of this year’s varied programme – from lesser performed oratorios to symphonic mobs
Jonny Whiting
Jul 211 min read
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Salieri: La locandiera at Bampton Classical Opera | Review
'I don’t believe I’ve ever enjoyed the text of an opera more than the music before!'
Jonny Whiting
Jul 201 min read
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Preview | Jane Eyre at the Arcola Theatre
This summer, John Joubert’s final opera is fully staged for the first time. Director Eleanor Burke tells us how memory, music, and sustainability converge in a radical reimagining of Brontë’s classic – and how a labour of love finally reaches the stage
Jonny Whiting
Jul 171 min read
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Amopera at the Wiener Konzerthaus | Review
The 'dystopian ballad' by Klangforum Wien and Needcompany is a multimedia meta-opera exploring love through the medium of 20th and 21st-century works
Jonny Whiting
May 181 min read
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Bizet: Carmen at the Royal Opera | Live Review
Every production of Carmen lives and dies by its leading lady, and Aigul Akhmetshina is certainly key to this production’s success
Jonny Whiting
Apr 131 min read
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The five unmissable new classical recordings this week, featuring Bach’s B Minor Mass, Thomas Adés and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
This week – Brahms Piano Quartets, Ravel’s complete piano works, Adès’s orchestral suites, Bach’s Mass in B Minor and piano works from the Belle Époque
Jonny Whiting
Apr 33 min read
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10 pieces comissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society
To mark the 200th anniversary of the UK premiere of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9, we chart some of the greatest works commissioned by the RPS from its inception in 1813 to today
Jonny Whiting
Mar 211 min read
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