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Apollo’s Fire and its founder-director Jeannette Sorrell to join forces with members of the English Baroque Soloists for a thrilling musical fencing match during weekend residency at St-Martin-in-the-Fields (Friday 24 & Saturday April 2026)
American period-instrument ensemble’s latest UK tour also includes a recreation of music made in the four quarters of Jerusalem’s Old City, the imagined sounds of a 17th-century pub and a visit to a Middle Eastern café of c.1700
Tour ends with a repeat of Fencing Match programme at Snape Maltings Concert Hall (Sunday 26 April), including double concertos by Vivaldi, Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach
7 Jan 2026
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Sakari Oramo’s guest conducting engagements in 2025-26, comprising dates in Cologne, Dresden, Hamburg and Leipzig, reinforce his fruitful creative association with Germany’s leading orchestras
Finnish conductor marks his 60th-birthday year with Mendelssohn and Elgar with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in debut performances with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Season includes six concerts as Artistic Partner of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and a visit to Paris to perform monumental works by Saariaho and Mahler with the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France
27 Oct 2025
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The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet’s recording of Richard Wagner’s Der fliegende Höllander has won the 2025 Opera Award from Gramophone, the world’s leading magazine for classical record reviews. The coveted accolade, chosen from a formidable shortlist of six nominees, was awarded to the Company by an expert panel of Gramophone critics.
16 Oct 2025
