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  • Isabel Leonard as Frida Kahlo in Gabriela Lena Frank's El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego) at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York

    Tom Service on music
    double quotation markStart spreading the news… New York’s opera giveaway shows UK politicians how to be brave

    Tom Service
    New York’s mayor Mamdani is putting his political capital behind one of our greatest art forms with his pledge of Opera for All – and 70,000 free tickets to prove it
  • Paraorchestra performance: two dancers move on a wooden floor as a seated crowd watches under stage lights

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    Paraorchestra; Sinfonietta/Jonny Greenwood – Reich’s kaleidoscopic music bursts into life

  • Portrait of Jakub Hrusa at a piano

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    ‘I never choose the cautious option’: Royal Opera’s Jakub Hrůša on collaboration, control and conducting Wagner

  • Composer Steve Reich, wearing glasses and a black cap, stands before bookshelves

    ‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back

  • Four digital Abba avatars perform on stage during the Abba Voyage concert under blue lighting

    Tom Service on music
    double quotation markThe living dead: we can watch ‘Janis Joplin’ perform or reunite the Beatles, but who are the real winners here?

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  • Performers in white blouses and dark pinafores raise knives above their heads, from Fire In My Mouth

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    Fire in My Mouth – Wolfe’s multimedia oratorio tells its tragic story with focus and power

  • Roomful of Teeth singers perform at microphones on stage, wearing colorful outfits

    Review
    Roomful of Teeth/Kahane – twisty and tuneful songs with a darkly comic edge

  • Conductor Edward Gardner raises a baton, leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra

    LPO/Edward Gardner review – Britten’s pacifist War Requiem lands with a bitterness and snarling irony

  • Aerial view of Hallé orchestra performing, with musicians and percussion arranged in sections

    Hallé/Wong review – MacMillan’s new symphony centres a great concert hall’s birthday celebrations

  • A Black woman with curly long hair and big glasses stands on stage with an orchestra and conductor applauding her

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at 80 review – birthday celebration champions bold creativity

  • Conductor Kazuki Yamada gestures with raised hands while CBSO violinists play around him

    CBSO/Yamada review – apocalyptic and soul-shaking Mahler opens the season

  • Sébastien Dutrieux, Audrey Bonnet and Lukáš Vasilek pose together for a portrait

    Honegger: Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher album review – faultless recording of an eclectic masterpiece

  • Himari Yoshimura smiles gently while holding a violin close to her face

    Himari: Debut album review – teenage prodigy’s playing has depth and feeling

  • Members of vocal ensemble Exaudi lean and peer through white window panes, smiling

    Exaudi: Pocket Universe album review – virtuoso vocals with a joyfully bonkers bent

  • Opus13 press publicity portrait

    Opus13: Mendelssohn and Grieg album review – an assured and distinctive debut

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  • Wynton Marsalis in a navy suit holds a trumpet while looking at the camera against a grey background

    Interview
    ‘Trumpeters? We think we’re the kings of the orchestra’: Wynton Marsalis prepares to blow the Edinburgh festival away

  • Anthony Hopkins

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    ‘Music was my first desire’: Anthony Hopkins releases single

  • Stephen Hough sits at a grand piano with sheet music open in his studio

    Dazzling, delightful – and unfairly dismissed: Stephen Hough on the art of the transcription

  • Benjamin Britten with raised baton stands before an orchestra and choir in a brick concert hall

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  • Jennifer Davis (Reiza) and Rachael Wilson (Fatima) rehearsing Oberon by Weber, part of the BBC Proms @ Royal Albert Hall. Sir Mark Elder conductor and Emma Doherty director. (Opening 06-08-26) ©Tristram Kenton 08-26

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  • Dancer Thulani Chauke warming up before the dress rehearsal of L’Orfeo by Monteverdi @ Glyndebourne. Directed by William Kentridge. Conductor, Jonathan Cohen. With the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Choreographer, Gregory Maqoma. Set Designer, Sabine Theunissen. Costume Designer, Greta Goiris. Lighting Designer, Urs Schönebaum. Video Designer, Janus Fouché. L’Orfeo is a co-production between Glyndebourne, the Metropolitan Opera and Greek National Opera. (Opening 14-06-26) ©Tristram Kenton 06-26

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