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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.” Benjamin Britten, born on this day in 1913:
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November 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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Cocteau-esque camp: Alden’s Partenope returns to English National Opera
✍️ Mark Valencia
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November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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Harmony in motion: Maxime Pascal shows his mettle in Boulez and three world premieres with the @londonsymphony.bsky.social
✍️ Peter Quantrill
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November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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Laura Karpman’s opera Balls tells a great story, but overshoots the line
✍️ David Karlin
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November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM

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London City Ballet at the Linbury: joy and sorrow at its best
✍️ Deborah Weiss
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November 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM

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Sliding doors moments: the Royal Academy's Carmen has too many what-ifs
✍️ Dominic Lowe
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November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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Indifference and impatience: Osmo Vänskä ruins Sibelius and Shostakovich in Birmingham
✍️ Simon Cummings
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November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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Contour and colour in New York: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Ravel’s complete piano works
✍️ Edward Sava-Segal
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November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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A spirited revival of the Velvet Revolution from Oramo and the Czech Philharmonic
✍️ Frank Kuznik
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November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM

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"All six singers then featured in a Sunday brunch recital... packed to the gunwales with rarities and premieres, accompanied deftly by Giulio Zappa" - @bachtrack.com @larkingrumple.bsky.social

Some pictures from our recent trip to Bergamo for our new collab. with the Donizetti Opera Festival!

November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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Two rediscovered organ works by JS Bach performed in Leipzig
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November 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM

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ENO chief Jenny Mollica departs to head up the Roundhouse
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November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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Man of the hour: Hermann Bäumer joins Prague State Opera
Interview ✍️ Frank Kuznik
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November 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM

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Shipwrecked: Donizetti’s Il furioso nell’isola di San Domingo comes a cropper in Bergamo bachtrack.com/review-il-fu...

November 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM

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“Renga does a very sensitive job, not least around the issue of dementia.” Donizetti's Il furioso nell'isola di San Domingo reviewed at the Donizetti Opera festival
✍️ Mark Pullinger
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November 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM

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A young cast impresses in flawed Donizetti double bill
✍️ Mark Pullinger
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November 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM

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Caterina Cornaro has a chequered history. Donizetti himself never saw it performed, but it proves a stylish – if controversial – opener to this year's Donizetti Opera festival.
✍️ Mark Pullinger
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November 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM

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“Give me a laundry bill and I will set it to music.”
The great Gioachino Rossini died on this day in 1868. Here, our editor picks his ten greatest works:
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