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Composer lived in Villa Verdi near Busseto for 50 years and it has been run as a museum while owners argued
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3 out of 5 stars.Energy to burn from the Welsh National Youth Opera turned Judith Weir’s work for children into a Covid-adjacent horror for all to enjoy
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Ethel Smyth’s long-neglected maelstrom of an opera is worth a plunge; and pianist Kirill Gerstein is on peak form in Liszt
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With a libretto by Alice Birch, who adapted Normal People, this Aldeburgh festival opener revolves around a collapsing world. Apt, given that – with the pandemic – its creators didn’t know it would ever make the stage
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5 out of 5 stars.
Koechlin: The Seven Stars Symphony; Vers la Voûte Etoilée review – dazzling display of orchestral imagination
5 out of 5 stars.An elegant performance to match the beauty and refinement of this bafflingly neglected master of 20th-century music
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5 out of 5 stars.Playing Bach’s mammoth work from memory, the US pianist brought wit, insights and lightness of touch
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The circus star turns singer in his new show, Room, which is designed to embrace chaos. He talks about the mystery of theatre and his movie missions
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BBC Concert Orchestra residency aims to inspire children and improve wellbeing in Norfolk town
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4 out of 5 stars.
The Wreckers review – Glyndebourne bring Smyth’s rarity to vivid and passionate life
4 out of 5 stars.Director Melly Still and conductor Robin Ticciati have done Ethel Smyth’s 1906 opera proud, with dynamic and intense performances from an excellent cast and chorus.
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Covent Garden’s future stars make the most of a tricky double bill
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Feshareki’s hypnotic soundworld encompasses medieval alchemy and Daphne Oram, while Charlston sings up for Dido, Boudicca and other forsaken heroines
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She was bisexual, served a prison sentence, and was so outraged by cuts to her opera The Wreckers that she stormed the orchestra pit. Finally, this summer, it will be heard as its extraordinary composer intended
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Xenakis: Music & Maths review – visceral intensity takes us beyond theory
4 out of 5 stars.