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Royal Opera sees generation change as Jakub Hrůša and Speranza Scappucci come in

The Royal Opera in London is embracing a new era with Jakub Hrůša as music director and Speranza Scappucci as principal guest conductor

The Independent UK

LSO/Pappano review – Musgrave’s Phoenix rises and Vaughan Williams’ London stirs the soul

An all British programme featured music by Thea Musgrave, Vaughan Williams and William Walton, with Antoine Tamestit an expressive and sensitive soloist in the latter’s Viola concerto

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pappano review – big, bold and filled with blazing conviction

Bernstein’s Symphony No 3 evoked the Cuban missile crisis before Copland’s Third Symphony lifted us on a tide of postwar optimism

The Guardian - UK

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Salome at the Barbican review: a gripping performance from a dream cast

5/5 Soprano Asmik Grigorian astounds in the title role, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano

Evening Standard

Salome review – a frankly astonishing concert performance

Asmik Grigorian heads one of the finest casts you could hope to hear, and every flicker of detail and colour in Strauss’s score hits home, as Antonio Pappano’s first season with the LSO climaxes in remarkable style

The Guardian - UK

Die Walküre review – Kosky’s formidable staging is full of magic and menace

The second of the Royal Opera’s new Ring cycle again places Erda, the ancient Earth Mother, at its heart to create a memorable new production full of very fine singing and playing

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Raja Shehadeh’s cultural highlights

The Palestinian writer and campaigner on Mahler, Gaza, Edinburgh – and the peace of his West Bank garden

The Guardian - UK

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London Symphony Orchestra conductor Antonio Pappano goes underground — he takes the Tube to work

Conductor Antonio Pappano is leading the orchestra on a 13-concert U.S. tour to California, Florida and New York that ends this week with its first Carnegie Hall concerts since 2005

The Independent UK

LSO/Pappano review – salty breezes and a balmy Mediterranean sunset

An all-British programme – of Maconchy, Walton and Vaughan Williams – brought vivid colours and plenty of atmosphere

The Guardian - UK

Jenůfa review – this opera is in Hrůša’s DNA, his account is not to be missed

The Royal Opera’s incoming music director conducts a performance of rare intensity and authority, with Corrine Winters and Karita Mattila compelling in the two central roles

The Guardian - UK

New heights, fond farewells and daring acrobatics – the year in classical music

It was a thrilling year with glittering new works, an electrifying Proms season, Puccini in a laundry and Britten on a trapeze

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pappano review – postwar Vaughan Williams at his most ferocious and compelling

Antonio Pappano delivered a masterclass in dynamic control with VW’s final symphony, leaving the perennially popular Elgar cello concerto that followed feeling almost toothless

The Guardian - UK

La Rondine review – Pappano and the LSO make Puccini glitter

The London Symphony Orchestra’s concert performance under their chief conductor made a compelling case for Puccini’s little-performed opera

The Guardian - UK

La Rondine at the Barbican review: this little-known Puccini work deserves a regular place in opera's canon

5/5 An Antonio Pappano favourite, Puccini’s eigth opera builds to the kind of heart-stopping climax familiar from the composer’s better-known works

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pappano/Wang/Lapwood review – high on feelgood factor

Soloists Yuja Wang and Anna Lapwood brought style and spectacle to Rachmaninov and Saint-Saëns

The Guardian - UK

‘Thrilling, unforgettable … there is nothing else like it!’: readers on their Proms highlights

As 2024’s festival comes to a close, readers tell us about their favourite performances of the eight-week season that saw 90 concerts in the Royal Albert Hall and beyond, all live on BBC Radio 3

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pappano review – new era begins with ghosts and great beauty

Chief conductor’s kicks off his first season with the London Symphony Orchestra with energy and thrilling drama in beguiling Sibelius and a new work from James MacMillan

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Marriage of Figaro; Proms 53, 54, 55 & 56 – review

Notable cameos and young new leads light up David McVicar’s latest Mozart revival. At the Proms, a moving tribute to conductor Andrew Davis and streamlined perfection from the Berlin Phil

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The week in classical: Prom 37: Britten’s War Requiem; The Turn of the Screw – review

Britten’s explosive work is a rallying cry at the Proms, while a twilit production of his chamber opera feels properly ghostly

Evening Standard

War Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall review: sincere and theatrical in the hands of Antonio Pappano

This was one of those occasions to treasure that the Proms does so well

The Guardian - UK

Prom 37: Britten’s War Requiem review – a tragically relevant act of remembrance

Antonio Pappano seized every opportunity to build dramatic tension, while the London Symphony Orchestra played with fire and focus

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Andrea Chénier; The Barber of Seville review – brio and ballistic B-flats

Antonio Pappano bows out with a blazing performance of Giordano’s red-blooded opera, while a fine cast brings out the vitality of Rossini’s classic in spite of the weather

The Guardian - UK

Andrea Chénier review – Pappano ends on a high with this sensational, thrilling revival

David McVicar’s 2015 staging of Giordano’s French Revolution opera is the final production of Antonio Pappano’s tenure as music director of the Royal Opera. With leads Jonas Kaufmann and Sondra Radvanovsky, it is an exciting, affecting evening

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Carmen; Celebrating 22 Years of Antonio Pappano – review

Glyndebourne hits 90 with Bizet’s sultry crowd-pleaser. Elsewhere, a starry farewell to a much loved maestro, and the fight to save Welsh National Opera

The Guardian - UK

Antonio Pappano Gala review – farewell concert celebrates the best thing that has happened to the Royal Opera

Singers including Jonas Kaufmann joined newer vocal stars such as Aigul Akhmetshina to honour the much loved music director on an evening that ended with the royal seal of approval

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