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What is the Coronation order of service?

The complete order of service was published by the Church of England on Saturday, April 29, before the historic event at Westminster Abbey

Evening Standard

13 unusual coronation customs from gold ingots to the threat of a duel

Celebrations over the years have featured secret recipes, a pardon for criminals and a royal stay in the Tower of London.

The Independent UK

Arminio review – confident staging returns Handel rarity to its starting point

This lesser-known darkly compelling work is given a smart production that fizzes with contemporary relevance and puts female voices to the fore

The Guardian - UK

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James Bowman obituary

Countertenor with a clean, focused and lyrical approach to both early and new music, including roles in two Britten operas

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: In the Realms of Sorrow; Alexander’s Feast; Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Bloch – review

The raw, ravishing power of four solo cantatas is taken to the next level at the London Handel festival, while young star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason works overtime

The Guardian - UK

The English Concert/Bicket review – Handel of grace and elan as Bicket takes us back to 1749 London

Recreation of the composer’s benefit concert for the Foundling Hospital was beautifully delivered

The Guardian - UK

Handel the Philanthropist at Barbican Hall review: stirring stuff with sparks aplenty

It may not be top-drawer Handel but this performance still set it alight

Evening Standard

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The week in classical: Handel’s Messiah: The Live Experience; Manchester Collective

Poetry, video and dance overwhelm one crowded Messiah, while Manchester Collective embrace danger, jeopardy and the new

The Guardian - UK

Yule love it: the best culture of the festive season

From magical ballet to adult panto, Arthurian exhibits to a touring troupe of comics, we present December’s hottest remaining tickets

The Guardian - UK

Samantha Morton glad to make new Weinstein film after he ‘bullied’ her

ACTOR Samantha Morton is happy to be in the new film She Said, about the American journalists who brought down Harvey Weinstein — becausethe producer almost bullied her out of the industry.

Evening Standard

The week in classical: The Yeomen of the Guard; Alcina – music under siege

ENO stands firm amid extreme funding cuts with a Gilbert and Sullivan staging full of vim and vigour, while animal magic ripples through Richard Jones’s new Alcina

The Guardian - UK

I’ve booed at the opera before. But what happened to a young soprano this week was plain cruel

On Tuesday evening in Covent Garden, during a performance of Handel’s Alcina, a 12-year-old child was heckled on stage, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Royal Opera House bans heckler for life after he shouted ‘rubbish’ at child singer

The incident occurred while Malakai M Bayoh, 12, was singing on the opening night of Handel’s Alcina on Tuesday

Evening Standard

How low can you go? Singer Iestyn Davies’s melancholic playlist

What connects a tea towel, a double-decker bus and a facial? The countertenor picks his 10 favourite tracks that distil the beauty of tears, pull at the heart strings and suspend time

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The week in classical: Tosca; Ottone review – faith and fantasy

Christof Loy digs for psychological depth in ENO’s time-shifting new Puccini production, while English Touring Opera’s autumn Handelfest gets off to a sparkling start

The Guardian - UK

Amadigi review – winning recording should gain Handel’s romantic tale new fans

There are glorious and nuanced performances in a new recording of this lesser-known Handel opera, courtesy of Christian Curnyn and his Early Opera Company

The Independent UK

‘Beautiful’ organist duet with railway station guard began with national anthem

Anna Lapwood, the director of music at Pembroke College, Cambridge had an impromptu duet with a security guard in a tribute to the Queen.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve been trying to play Mozart for 60 years. On this, my last recording, I think I’ve finally cracked it’

Mozart’s sublime music is deceptively difficult to play. Conductor Roger Norrington explains how the composer’s own father helped rewire brains and eradicate wobble

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The Guardian - UK

Proms & ENO: Glass Handel review – arias meet beatboxing in a creative but baffling cacophony

Anthony Roth Costanzo’s neon-lit ‘operatic experience’ brought together Handel and Philip Glass plus dancers, a painter … and films of erotic puddings

Chicago Sun-Times

Fall classical music guide 2022: Collaborative Works Festival showcases Chicago composers, poets

Riccardo Muti’s last season as music director of the CSO, and Lyric Opera’s “Don Carlo” are also among the highlights of the season.

Chicago Sun-Times

Music of the Baroque marking pavilion debut at Ravinia with celebration of Haydn, Bach

The relaxed atmosphere at Ravinia is ideal to present audiences with new styles or periods of music with which they might not be familiar, like the sounds of the 17th and 18th centuries in which Music of the Baroque specializes.

Bangkok Post

RBSO presents evening of Mozart, Handel and Bach

Two talented Thai stars will perform with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra during "San Jittakarn Plays Mozart Piano Concerto No.17" in the Small Hall of Thailand Cultural Centre, Ratchadaphisek Road, on Aug 9 at 7.30pm.

The Guardian - UK

Looking West/Philharmonia Baroque review – soaring ambition and vividly projected Handel

Julian Philips sklifully evokes the history and drama of the Cumbrian landscape while the PBO bookend a nicely contrasted new work with some vivacious arias

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Alcina; The Blue Woman

Handel’s sorceress goes to the cabaret in Francesco Micheli’s fabulously glitzy production, while Katie Mitchell directs a powerful exploration of violence against women

Evening Standard

Pick of the BBC Proms 2022: Presenters on the concerts they can’t wait to see

From the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, to a celebration of Aretha Franklin and the music of video games, BBC TV presenters on the Proms not to miss this summer

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