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Street-smart and subversive: Ailish Tynan talks Così fan tutte @ailishtynan.bsky.social
✍️ @jessicaduchen.bsky.social
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January 7, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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Ermonela Jaho returns in triumph to The Royal Opera’s Traviata
✍️ Mark Valencia
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January 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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Gianandrea Noseda and the NY Philharmonic play an exhilarating Shostakovich Four @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social
✍️ David Wolfson
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January 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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One of the best-known and loved English composers, Vaughan Williams was the great-nephew of Charles Darwin and the great-great-grandson of Josiah Wedgewood. He refused a knighthood multiple times...

...and he loved cats 😺

Seen here with 'Foxy'.
January 8, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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A new broom at the London Symphony Orchestra @londonsymphony.bsky.social
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January 7, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Street-smart and subversive: Ailish Tynan talks Così fan tutte @ailishtynan.bsky.social
✍️ @jessicaduchen.bsky.social
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January 7, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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“He was entirely paradoxical. You could meet him as easily in fashionable Parisian circles... or at Mass.” Nadia Boulanger on Frances Poulenc, born OTD, 1899.
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January 7, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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Zubin Mehta returns to Mumbai to launch 90th birthday celebrations
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January 6, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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News: @semyonbychkov.bsky.social has been appointed as Music Director of the Opéra de Paris
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January 6, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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What a bumper day! 🎹
January 5, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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Michelangeli was also born on this day (1920).
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Great pianists Alfred Brendel (1931) and Maurizio Pollini (1942) were born on this day. At the Barbican Centre this evening, there is a musical celebration for Brendel, who died last year: bachtrack.com/concert-even...
January 5, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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Twelve drummers drumming: which percussionist is behind the final window in our Twelve Days of Christmas? bachtrack.com/twelve-days-... 🥁
January 5, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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Great pianists Alfred Brendel (1931) and Maurizio Pollini (1942) were born on this day. At the Barbican Centre this evening, there is a musical celebration for Brendel, who died last year: bachtrack.com/concert-even...
January 5, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Eleven pipers piping? Just one over this musical sunrise...
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January 4, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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Mao Fujita takes the plunge into Romanticism at @wigmore-hall.org.uk
✍️ Mark Pullinger
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January 3, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Which leaping Lord lies behind the tenth door of our Twelve Days of Christmas celebration?
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January 3, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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Birmingham Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall is at its best @royalalberthall.bsky.social
✍️ Deborah Weiss
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January 2, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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We're up to nine ladies dancing, so it's time to explore the world of dance on Bachtrack: bachtrack.com/twelve-days-...
January 2, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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Vocal thrills in the Met Opera’s traditional new staging of Bellini’s I puritani
✍️ Susan Stempleski
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January 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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The Musikverein naturally features on our Strauss tour of Vienna, but there are other Strauss-related sites to visit:
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January 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Looking forward to the Vienna Phil's New Year Concert at the Musikverein? Warm up your waltzing with Mark and Elisabeth's top ten Johann Strauss II playlist! 🥂🍾
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January 1, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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Happy New Year! We're on the Eighth Day of Christmas and our maids are not milking but... dancing!
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January 1, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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Pondering how to celebrate this New Year's Eve? Join Jonas Kaufmann in Die Fledermaus in Vienna, or watch Christian Thielemann's Lehár gala at the Staatsoper Berlin, or join Benjamin Bernheim and the @berliner-philharmoniker.de
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December 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Which balletic treat could be behind the seventh window of our Twelve Days of Christmas? 🩰🦢
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December 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Jean-Christophe Maillot's Ma Bayadère is a stunning reinvention at Ballets Monte-Carlo
✍️ Elsa Giovanna Simonetti
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December 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM