Find your way around a symphony orchestra with our weekly series of interviews with some of London's top classical musicians
Read moreUntil Fri May 30, English National Opera
John Copley directs a new production of Franz Lehár's operetta, involving the recently widowed, and very glamorous, Hanna Glawari
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Until Sat May 24, Royal Opera House
Verdi's tale of plots, rebellion, betrayal, assassination and passion. John Eliot Gardiner conducts
Critics' Choice
Fri May 9, Barbican Hall
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Sir Andrew Davis, with Philip Quast (baritone). Vaughan Williams' 'Toward the Unknown Region' and Symphony No 6 in E minor; Dominic Muldowney's 'Tsunami'...
Critics' Choice
Fri May 9, Royal Festival Hall
Luigi Nono's final masterpiece 'Prometeo'. Performed by London Sinfonietta, Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble under Diego Masson and Patrick Bailey....
Critics' Choice
Sat May 10, St Pancras Parish Church
The Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse, sing works by Michael and Lennox Berkeley, Edgar Bainton, Knut Nystedt, Tarik O'Regan, Philip Moore, Will...
Critics' Choice
Sun May 11, Barbican Hall
Pierre Boulez conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, with Michelle De Young (mezzo-soprano) and Peter Fried (bass). Schoenberg's 'Die...
Critics' Choice
Tue May 13, St Martin-in-the-Fields
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra directed from the harpsichord by Ton Koopman, with harpsichordists Tini Mathot, Patrizia Marisaldi and Pietro Paganini. Bach's...
Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s latest opera, ‘The Minotaur’, is premiered this week. Time Out meets the septuagenarian perfectionist and discovers a man as unpretentious as his music
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