classical music & opera
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Germany’s second largest city is where Brahms and Mendelssohn were born, Telemann and Mahler worked and the Beatles came of age
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Misogynistic? Dramatically unconvincing? Not at all. The key to understanding the universal truths of Mozart’s opera lie in these very contrivances, writes the director of a new Covent Garden production
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The controversial director’s fable about a woman told to sleep with other men by her paralysed husband is a work of extreme emotions – and now it comes complete with an orchestra, a chorus and heart-rending arias
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It’s hard to remember that Daniil Trifonov is still only 25. This double CD set reveals his sensitivity as well as his showmanship
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Sukanya, a Hindu tale named after the sitar great’s wife and completed by their daughter Anoushka, will be semi-staged at Leicester’s Curve with the LPO
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The RSC has teamed up with the Southbank Sinfonia to revive some of the most compelling scores written for our favourite Shakespeare plays
facing the music
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The tenor loves the Beatles, gets cosy to Nat King Cole and would have loved to sing with von Karajan
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Opera North’s music director on wishing he was a fly on the wall to see Wagner compose, why MP3 players are spoiling us for live music and his would-be career as a sci-fi author
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At 73, the conductor is still lobbying presidents and bellowing at the violins in five languages. But has his passion project – an orchestra of players from across the Middle East – achieved any real change? We meet him in Buenos Aires
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In the fourth in our series, we look at the Finnish capital and its music
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Losing one voice helped Sally Beamish find another. Two decades later she has come full circle. She tells how her daughter, her mentor Peter Maxwell Davies – and a blackbird – have inspired her new work, and her own return to playing
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What’s it like to play a cello concerto written by your brother? To conduct your wife? To sing alongside your daughter? Michael Hann meets the classical musicians who are keeping it all in the family this Proms season
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Exquisite harmonies, by candlelight, transported audiences in 1600s London out of filthy streets into a gilded world of kings and star-cross’d lovers. Composer-director Claire van Kampen explains why music was a key factor in the Bard’s success
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Adès’s macabre, fabulously inventive take on Buñuel’s film felt like a turning point for the composer – and for opera itself
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Tom Service's survey of the 50 symphonies that changed classical music
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Tom Service introduces 50 composers from the contemporary classical music scene
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First night Così fan Tutte, Royal Opera House – impressive ensemble cast focus on the wider questions