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‘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

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

The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; The Rake’s Progress; The Flying Dutchman; Elena Urioste and Tom Poster – review

Dread runs through John Adams’s pulsating new ‘short symphony’; Stravinsky’s Rake has plenty of company at ETO; Bryn Terfel returns as the mythical Dutchman; and two lockdown favourites bring the house down

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LSO/Rattle review – Adams’ Frenzy debuts but Roy Harris’s Third is the real discovery

In an all-American programme, works by composers from Gershwin to an Adams world premiere were superbly presented by Rattle and LSO, with Harris’s 1939 symphony a revelation

The Guardian - UK

Conductor Simon Rattle says cutting UK tax relief for orchestras would be a catastrophe

Plea to protect arts funding as a growing number of city and county councils face bankruptcy

The Guardian - UK

Jenůfa review – muscle and lyricism as Rattle leads superb cast through Janáček’s formidable opera

With the power of the LSO on stage alongside them, this concert performance found Agneta Eichenholz magnetic in the title role and tenor Aleš Briscein a particular standout

The Guardian - UK

Folk Songs album review – Kožená and Rattle on gleaming, glistening form

The wife-and-husband team’s newest collaboration features Bartók, Berio and Ravel; songs that suit Magdalena Kozena’s voice well

The Guardian - UK

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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

Evening Standard

The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Nelsons – review

The LSO gave Simon Rattle an unforgettable send-off in Mahler’s Ninth, while the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons turned on the style with Stravinsky, Ravel and Gershwin

The Guardian - UK

Prom 56: LSO/Rattle review – a packed Albert Hall hung on every note in utter silence

In his last UK concert as the LSO’s music director, Simon Rattle bid farewell with an outstanding and assured performance of Mahler’s final symphony. The BBC Singers’ Poulenc, beginning the Prom, was expert and impassioned

The Guardian - UK

The BBC Proms fights for its future

Hurt by arts cuts, gender balance criticisms and a post-Brexit lack of musicians from Europe, this year’s event is rife with insecurity. But, says Opera Now’s editor Hattie Butterworth, there is also defiant innovation...

Evening Standard

'Angry, shocked' stage stars fear for future of British arts

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France: As a wealth of British theatre and opera maestros cross the Channel to perform at French festivals this summer, many are worried about the state of live arts back home.

Bangkok Post

Hooked on classics? But if you want to learn to play, you’d better be posh

My state school taught me the value of Bach and Vivaldi. Today’s pupils aren’t so lucky

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Dialogues des Carmélites; Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Rattle – review

Poulenc’s shattering opera disturbs and confounds in Barrie Kosky’s new Glyndebourne production; Wagner meets the pre-Raphaelites at Grange Park Opera. Plus, a thrilling farewell from Simon Rattle

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LSO/Rattle review – wistful and life-enhancing, a terrific farewell for the departing chief

Signing off with a joyous new commission from 96-year-old Betsy Jolas and a return to a longtime Messiaen favourite, Sir Simon led a regretful but sunny evening

The Independent UK

Bronze bust honouring conductor Sir Simon Rattle to be unveiled

The sculpture will be unveiled on June 15 before Sir Simon conducts his final concert as the London Symphony Orchestra’s (LSO) music director.

The Guardian - UK

The arts in Britain are teetering on the brink. Here is my plan to save them

The Arts Council should focus on high-quality performances while a new body deals with community-based initiatives, says Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director at the National Theatre

Evening Standard

BBC Proms 2023: the 20 concerts to book now, from Anna Lapwood to a Northern Soul night

From Portuguese Fado to the Rite of Spring played from memory, a Horrible Histories opera and a tribute to a Bollywood legend, there’s something for everyone

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Violin virtuoso joins ‘real battle’ to save classical music from UK funding cuts

Soloist Nicola Benedetti has added her voice to those speaking up for a genre now facing severe financial constraints

The Independent UK

Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto now conductor, to debut at Met

Nathalie Stutzmann gave up a quarter-century career as a contralto to become a conductor

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Blue; Bach: Mass in B Minor – review

A potent US tale of Black lives hits home with fervour and humanity at ENO. Plus shock and roar from John Eliot Gardiner at 80

The Guardian - UK

The arts are in a sorry state at a time when we need them most

Letters: Readers lament the damage to culture resulting from the government cutting funding

The Guardian - UK

Simon Rattle is right: Britain is becoming a cultural desert – and that’s a political choice

The arts and classical music say much about us as a country. Labour should fight for their place in our national life, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Simon Rattle: UK classical music is fighting for life after ‘swingeing’ funding cuts

The outgoing director of the London Symphony Orchestra says that cuts by Arts Council England and the BBC risk destroying the entire sector

The Guardian - UK

BBC Singers/LSO review – music, and words, of power as Rattle protests vandalism of UK’s musical life

Superbly executed Mahler was given fire by the addition of Poulenc’s work from the just saved BBC Singers – and a fierce attack on arts funding by the conductor

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