Eugene Onegin

Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season and name change

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Eight new productions, a world premiere, a European premiere – and a name change: the Royal Ballet and Opera, as it is now known, announced on Tuesday an ambitious program on the main and Linbury stages for the 2024-2025 season. The world premiere is the opera Festen by Mark-Anthony Turnage, based on Thomas Vinterberg’s 1998 … Read more

Yuri Temirkanov obituary

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As head of two of Russia’s most important musical institutions, the Kirov (later Mariinsky) Opera and Ballet Theater (1976-88) and the Leningrad (later St. Petersburg) Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he was chief conductor for more than thirty years. 1988 Yuri Temirkanov, who has died at the age of 84, was at the foundation of music … Read more