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Filipina is lone outsider in Metropolitan Opera winners

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Filipina is lone outsider in Metropolitan Opera winners
Yesterday’s winners at the Met Opera’s Laffont Competition are:
Sadie Cheslak, 30, mezzo-soprano (Duluth, Minnesota)
Michelle Mariposa, 30, mezzo-soprano (Quezon City, Philippines)
Luke Sutliff, 28, baritone (Denver, Colorado)
Alissa Goretsky, 25, soprano (Los Angeles)
Emma Marhefka, 25, soprano (Allentown, Pennsylvania)

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Curated By… Ben Nobuto: an intimate programme exploring the music, composers and sonic ideas that have influenced his artistic development.

Curated By… Ben Nobuto: an intimate programme exploring the music, composers and sonic ideas that have influenced his artistic development.

From Beethoven & Britten to Caroline Shaw & Gavin Higgins: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s 2026/27 season will be chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan’s sixth

From Beethoven & Britten to Caroline Shaw & Gavin Higgins: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s 2026/27 season will be chief conductor Domingo Hindoyan’s sixth

Unashamedly romantic with an expressive use of dissonance & sophisticated atmosphere: the music of the remarkably youthful Christopher Churcher on Resonus Classics

Brass to the fore: this year’s Cumnock Tryst is a tribute to the late Scottish trumpeter John Wallace & a celebration of the tradition of brass band music in the Ayrshire coalfields

Meditations on life, death and Taoist wisdom: Phelim McDermott & Philip Glass’s Tao of Glass, @sohoplace theatre

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