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Power couple leave US festival

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Power couple leave US festival

The California summer festival Menlo@music is to lose its founding leadership.

David Finckel and Wu Han have let it be known they will retire after the 2026 festival, having given quarter of a century to the event. The festival now  attracts an attendance of 10,000 people. Finckel, former cellist of  the Emerson Quartet, and Wu, co-director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, were able to call in top performing talent..

 

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A bold, atmospheric work rooted in English folklore, ritual, & superstition: Shadwell Opera & Opera North give the stage premiere of Isabella Gellis’ The Devil’s Den

Dramatic Messiah: Wild Arts brings its dramatised presentation of Handel’s oratorio back for a third tour

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Fascinating, distracting & frustrating: Janáček's Makropulos Case gets its first production at Covent Garden in director Katie Mitchell's farewell to opera

Fascinating, distracting & frustrating: Janáček’s Makropulos Case gets its first production at Covent Garden in director Katie Mitchell’s farewell to opera

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