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Verdi & the 50th anniversary of the birth of punk: La traviata from St Paul’s Opera fuses Victorian morality with punk rebellion La Clemenza di Tito: despite a lack of staging, Christopher Rousset & Les Talens Lyriques light up the stage in Mozart’s great final opera at The Grange Festival Songs for a Mad King: Manchester Camerata investigates mental health The Trial of Dhegdheer: a Somali folktale is the inspiration for a new community opera bringing together communities of Butetown & Grangetown in Cardiff Now in its sixth year, Joshua Ballance’s High Barnet Chamber Music Festival continues to offer some of the finest chamber musicians of their generation

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Slipped Disc August 20, 2024

LSO puts Spaniard in the works

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Spanish cellist Salvador Bolón has begun playing this month on tour with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Also joining the LSO this season is flute player Imogen Royce.

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