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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

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2024

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

Evening Standard · Aug 19, 2024

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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 · Aug 18, 2024

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 · Jun 8, 2024

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 · May 31, 2024

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 · May 25, 2024

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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

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2024

King Charles applauded on Royal Opera House stage and says he's 'not too bad' amid cancer treatment

The event paid tribute to Sir Antonio Pappano, who was the conductor at the King’s coronation

Evening Standard · May 17, 2024

Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change

2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2024

LSO/Antonio Pappano at the Barbican review: the incoming director conjured the richest sounds from the players

If orchestras were football teams, the LSO would certainly be in the running for the Premier League title

Evening Standard · Apr 19, 2024

LSO/Pappano/Balsom review – elephant honks kick off Wynton Marsalis’s trumpet showcase

Soloist Alison Balsom delivered Marsalis’s playful new trumpet concerto with poise, expertise and wit – right down to the animal calls

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2024

‘Misguided wokeism’ puts people off opera, says top London conductor

LSO’s Antonio Pappano says many in UK are ‘embarrassed’ by art form and suspicious of cultural achievements

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2024

British music, birthdays and building work: LSO announce first season under Pappano

Boulez’s 100th and Rattle’s 70th are among the highlights of the LSO’s new season with chief conductor Antonio Pappano in which British music is a strong thread. The orchestra also announced an £8m redevelopment of LSO St Lukes

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2024

The week in classical: Netrebko, Kaufmann and Pappano thrill in Salzburg

Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko and Antonio Pappano pull off a buoyant La Gioconda; elsewhere, a fresh Verdi Requiem and a Byronic septuagenarian viola soloist made this a festival to remember

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2024

Elijah review – LSO and Pappano make it big, bold and beautiful

Antonio Pappano conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and an excellent lineup of soloists in this superbly detailed and rousing performance

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2024

The week in classical: Elektra; Jenůfa; Scottish Ensemble with Jasdeep Singh Degun – review

In the hands of two great conductors, high drama and outstanding playing converge in Strauss’s unyielding tragedy and Janáček’s dark masterpiece

Evening Standard · Jan 15, 2024

Elektra, Royal Opera House review: Nina Stemme and Karita Mattila power a revelatory take on Greek tragedy

The two sopranos at the centre of Christof Loy's production offer up fascinating new perspectives

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The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2024

Elektra review – Strauss’s intense and overwrought music drama doesn’t grip as it should

Antonio Pappano brings out every detail of Strauss’s technicolour score but Christof Loy’s static production, boasting star leads, offers few insights

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2023

Our top 10 classical recordings of 2023

Previously unexplored corners of repertoire, why Italians are outstanding Monteverdians, and a recording of Liszt with huge verve and personality

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2023

English National Opera cuts risk ‘killing off of art form’, warn prominent music directors

Former ENO conductors Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder and the Royal Opera House’s Sir Antonio Pappano said cuts would make company ‘an empty shell of its former self’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2023

The week in classical: Cumnock Tryst; LSO: A Dance to the Music of Time

James MacMillan’s inspiring four-day festival brings together top-class professionals and local performers, and Antonio Pappano gives the Barbican a tantalising taster

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023

LSO/Pappano review – Kopatchinskaja dazzles and ravishes in Say’s Violin Concerto

Fazil Say’s theatrical ‘1001 Nights in the Harem’ was terrific fun, played with exhilarating precision by the LSO and soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Rachmaninov of drama and power ended a concert full of colour

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2023

LSO/Pappano review – drama, colour and fun as orchestra embraces the new

Wheezing harmonicas and tinkling music boxes enliven Hannah Kendall’s elemental new work, while Alice Sara Ott gave a barnstorming account of Liszt’s Totentanz in a programme masterfully led by the London Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor designate

Evening Standard · Oct 5, 2023

LSO/Pappano at the Barbican review: the Covent Garden maestro steps into Simon Rattle’s shoes

This marked Sir Antonio Papano’s first concert as chief conductor designate of the London Symphony Orchestra

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