{"id":19626,"date":"2022-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=19626"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:43:08","slug":"live-music-guide-2022-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/2022\/10\/04\/live-music-guide-2022-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Live music guide 2022\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LIVE MUSIC GUIDE 2022\/23<\/h4>\n\n

Looking forward<\/h2>\n\n

There\u2019s plenty for your diary as musicians prepare for special anniversaries and exciting new themes <\/p>\n\n

COMPILED & WRITTEN BY PAUL RILEY <\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Dark and vigilant: <\/strong>Tenebrae will perform Joby Talbot\u2019s Path of Miracles and Rachmaninov\u2019s Vespers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

UK <\/h3>\n\n

The Marian Consort<\/span> <\/strong>
Little Missenden Church, Amersham, 9 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.marianconsort.co.uk<\/a>
Currently touring a subversive Tudor programme bookended by settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah <\/em>by Tallis and Osbert Parsley, the Marian Consort includes Byrd\u2019s pointed \u2018Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?\u2019. At the end of the month, music that inspired JS Bach comes under the spotlight. <\/p>\n\n

Welsh National Opera <\/span><\/strong>
Venue Cymru, Llandudno, 15 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.wno.org.uk<\/a>
Mozart\u2019s Die Zauberf l\u00f6te <\/em>(The Magic Flute) preaches \u2018enlightenment\u2019 next spring, and across autumn Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s The Makropulos Affair <\/em>holds court with Puccini\u2019s La boh\u00e8me. <\/em>But autumn also revives Will Todd\u2019s Migrations. <\/em>A multilayered exploration ranging from the migration of birds to the fate of migrants down the centuries, it was premiered in the summer, and after Llandudno visits Plymouth, Birmingham and Southampton. <\/p>\n\n

London Chamber Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
St John\u2019s Smith Square, London, 18 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.lco.co.uk<\/a>
As it embarks on its second century, the UK\u2019s oldest professional chamber orchestra divides its favours between St John\u2019s Smith Square and Cadogan Hall. And having opened the season with a fanfare by Dani Howard, her Saxophone Concerto is premiered by Jess Gillam next March. For October, conductor Hannah von Wiehler frames Lera Auerbach\u2019s Sogno di Stabat Mater <\/em>with Britten and Shostakovich. <\/p>\n\n

Tenebrae<\/span> <\/strong>
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 20 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org<\/a>
The landmark Trafalgar Square church is now home to several resident ensembles including the Monteverdi Choir (who oblige in December with a seasonal account of Bach\u2019s Christmas Oratorio). <\/em>Visiting choirs include The Sixteen on Choral Pilgrimage, Polyphony, the BBC Singers and Tenebrae. Directed by Nigel Short, the latter return in January for the Rachmaninov <\/span>Vespers; <\/em>but in October they revisit a work written for them in 2005: Joby Talbot\u2019s <\/span>Path of Miracles, <\/em>a celebration of the pilgrims\u2019 route to Santiago de Compostela.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Dover Quartet <\/span><\/strong>
John Innes Centre, Norwich, 23 October<\/em><\/strong>
Web: norwichchambermusic.org.uk<\/a>
Chamber music is alive and well and living in Norwich! Every year, Norwich Chamber Music assembles a toothsome season, this year bounded by piano recitals from Stephen Hough and Tom Borrow. Guests include cellist Alban Gerhardt with Steven Osborne, baritone James Newby, who sings Mahler and Strauss, and in October the Dover Quartet makes bedfellows of Beethoven\u2019s Grosse Fuge <\/em>and Schnittke\u2019s Quartet No. 3. <\/p>\n\n

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An unusual pair:<\/strong> the Dover Quartet play Beethoven and Schnittke <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra<\/span> <\/strong>
Royal Albert Hall, London, 23 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.rpo.co.uk<\/a>
Under the banner \u2018Journeys of Discovery\u2019, the RPO shares nine themed concerts between the Royal Albert Hall and the Southbank Centre. Discoveries don\u2019t come much more supersized than Mahler\u2019s \u2018Symphony of a Thousand\u2019 on 23 October, but en route to journey\u2019s end next June, Vasily Petrenko also conducts the Second and Third symphonies, while Andrew Davis follows excerpts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn <\/em>with Mahler\u2019s arrangement of Beethoven\u2019s Ninth. <\/p>\n\n

Sound Festival <\/span><\/strong>
Aberdeen & NE Scotland, 26-30 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.sound-scotland.co.uk<\/a>
With over 30 live performances, a clutch of world premieres, plus late-night \u2018soundsessions\u2019, Aberdeenshire\u2019s shout-out for new music returns. After five years highlighting individual \u2018endangered instruments\u2019, all five are brought together in a concert of specially commissioned works by Daniel Kidane, Electra Perivolaris and Lisa Robertson. <\/p>\n\n

Australian Chamber Orchestra <\/strong>
<\/span>Barbican, London, 27-29 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.barbican.org.uk<\/a>
S\u014d Percussion with composer Caroline Shaw, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (see Live Highlights) and Les Arts Florissants all contribute to autumn\u2019s edition of \u2018Barbican Presents\u2019. And across three concerts the Australian Chamber Orchestra and director Richard Tognetti underline their versatility with music ranging from Jan\u00e1\u010dek to Jonny Greenwood and an eclectic accompaniment to a screening of Jennifer Peedom\u2019s film <\/span>River.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Hall\u00e9 Orchestra <\/strong>
<\/span>York Minster, 29 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.halle.co.uk<\/a>
The orchestra has a busy season at its Bridgewater Hall home, culminating next June in an Elgarian oratorio trilogy of The Dream of Gerontius, The Apostles, <\/em>and The Kingdom. <\/em>There\u2019s Elgar in December, too, when Steven Isserlis performs the Cello Concerto between Sibelius and Coleridge-Taylor. But the Hall\u00e9 is a moveable feast and, after a performance in Manchester, conductor Mark Elder takes Verdi\u2019s Requiem to York\u2019s glorious Minster. <\/p>\n\n

Brodsky Quartet <\/strong>
<\/span>Kings Place, London, 29, 30 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.kingsplace.co.uk<\/a>
From The Tallis Scholars to Exaudi, Kings Place\u2019s exhilarating Voices Unwrapped series continues apace. But other genres apply! Unlike the Emerson Quartet, who have split their complete Shostakovich quartet cycle at the Queen Elizabeth Hall into two, the indefatigable Brodskys are presenting the set over a single, concentrated weekend. Part of the Quartet\u2019s ongoing 50th-anniversary celebrations, the seven concerts are swelled by talks and discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Britten Weekend <\/strong>
<\/span>Snape Maltings, 29, 30 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.brittenpearsarts.org<\/a>
The centrepiece of this year\u2019s Britten Weekend is a staging by Oliver Mears of Britten\u2019s chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia. <\/em>It\u2019s conducted by Corinna Niemeyer, and a related exhibition lends context. Malcolm Martineau, meanwhile, is at the piano for three recitals that track the complete song cycles in the company of singers including tenor Nicky Spence and mezzo Fleur Barron. <\/p>\n\n

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Britten\u2019s greatest: <\/strong>Nicky Spence will sing some of the great song cycles at Snape Maltings <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Scottish Chamber Orchestra <\/strong>
<\/span>Younger Hall, St Andrews, 2 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.sco.org.uk<\/a>
Perhaps it\u2019s a reaction to the excitement of autumn\u2019s American tour, or to violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto\u2019s March concert with US neo-folk singer Sam Amidon, but the orchestra ends its season in a decidedly thoughtful mood, contemplating Brahms\u2019s German Requiem. <\/em>Violinist Anthony Marwood, in the meantime, has been given carte blanche at the beginning of November and has convened an intriguing programme around Weill\u2019s Violin Concerto that includes Ives and Bruckner, Elgar and Stravinsky.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Music in the Round <\/span><\/strong>
Upper Chapel, Sheffield, 4 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.musicintheround.co.uk<\/a>
Spreading its musical largesse around Sheffield (including the re-named Playhouse as well as the intimate Upper Chapel), Music in the Round invites the London Tango Quintet, pianist Ll\u0177r Williams, and the Espen Eriksen Trio with saxophonist Andy Sheppard to join Ensemble 360 in f leshing out an ear-catching season. On 4 November, the ensemble is mindful of Vaughan Williams\u2019s 150th anniversary, Ravel\u2019s Sonatine spiking an otherwise all-Vaughan Williams programme including The Lark Ascending. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra <\/strong>
<\/span>Symphony Hall and CBSO Centre, Birmingham, 6-11 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.cbso.co.uk<\/a>
In February, Sir Andrew Davis brings Elgar\u2019s The Dream of Gerontius <\/em>\u2018home\u2019 to the city where it was premiered, and with festive Viennoiserie over, Mahler and the UK premiere of Thomas Larcher\u2019s Symphony No. 3 usher in 2023. In November, however, four concerts including A Sea Symphony <\/em>and a live accompanied screening of Scott of the Antarctic <\/em>do their bit to mark Vaughan Williams\u2019s anniversary. <\/p>\n\n

Manchester Camerata <\/strong>
<\/span>St George\u2019s Bristol, 8 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.manchestercamerata.co.uk<\/a>
\u2018Mozart, Made in Manchester\u2019 is only one facet of the Manchester Camerata\u2019s increasingly eclectic music-making. \u2018Joy Division Orchestrated\u2019 does what it says on the tin, a collaboration with OperaUpClose weighs anchor on Wagner\u2019s Flying Dutchman, <\/em>and \u2018Unquiet\u2019 unites contemporary classical with electronics \u2013 music by Philip Glass and Mica Levi (composer of the film score Under the Skin) <\/em>plus the premiere of a new work by Carmen Villain is featured in a tour which concludes in Bristol on 8 November. <\/p>\n\n

Mozartfest<\/span> <\/strong>
Bath, 11-19 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.bathmozartfest.org.uk<\/a>
It is opened by the Tak\u00e1cs Quartet, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra give a grand finale with Brahms, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and pianist Stephen Hough. Fifteen concerts in all range from The Sixteen\u2019s all-Purcell programme in Bath Abbey to the Nash Ensemble\u2019s pairing of quintets by Mozart and Schubert. Others who are Bath-bound include pianist Simon Trp\u010deski, The Cardinall\u2019s Musick and the Pavel Haas Quartet. <\/p>\n\n

Royal Opera House<\/span> <\/strong>
Linbury Theatre, London, 13-22 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.roh.org.uk<\/a>
Hotfooting it from Snape Maltings, Oliver Mears\u2019s new production of Britten\u2019s The Rape of Lucretia <\/em>reaches the Linbury in November \u2013 hunkering down between main-stage performances of Handel\u2019s Alcina <\/em>and Puccini\u2019s Tosca. <\/em>January brings a revival of Wagner\u2019s Tannh\u00e4user, <\/em>while in April Susanna M\u00e4lkki conducts the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho\u2019s new opera, Innocence. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

BBC National Orchestra of Wales <\/span><\/strong>
St David\u2019s Hall, Cardiff, 17 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.bbc.co.uk\/now<\/a> <\/p>\n\n

The music of Charles Ives comes up for scrutiny this season, furnishing an American backdrop that makes space for John Adams\u2019s Harmonielehre <\/em>and even nods to the Disney centenary. Ligeti\u2019s Violin Concerto with soloist Anthony Marwood and Haydn\u2019s Nelson <\/em>Mass <\/em>further energise a mix that in November unites conductor Markus Stenz and Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 9. <\/p>\n\n

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival <\/strong>
<\/span>Town Hall, Huddersfield, 23 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.hcmf.co.uk<\/a>
Philip Venables\u2019s first major piano piece, Answer Machine Tape, 1987, <\/em>receives its UK premiere at the hands (and technology) of Zubin Kanga. It\u2019s part of a festival that welcomes Julia Holter\u2019s Joan of Arc <\/em>project to the Town Hall on 23 November, freshly recontextualising Dreyer\u2019s 1928 movie. Holter and her band are joined by the Chorus of Opera North.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Dunedin Consort <\/span><\/strong>
Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, 19 November<\/em><\/strong>
Web: dunedin-consort.org.uk<\/a> <\/span>
Scotland\u2019s leading early music ensemble, the Dunedin Consort regularly heads south of the border \u2013 and shares its new completion of Mozart\u2019s unfinished Great Mass <\/em>in C minor with Saffron Hall. In February Haydn symphonies are on the agenda, and in June Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre\u2019s three Cantates Biblique <\/em>receive their Scottish premiere. <\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Artistic director Steven Isserlis <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

IMS Prussia Cove <\/strong>
<\/span>Wigmore Hall, London, 26, 27 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk<\/a> <\/p>\n\n

From Jean-Efflam Bavouzet\u2019s \u2018Tour de Debussy\u2019 to the start of a new Nash Ensemble series and another devoted to Busoni, it\u2019s invigorating business-as-usual for a Wigmore Hall November. At the end of the month, however, a special weekend celebrates 50 years of the International Musicians Seminar founded in Cornwall by S\u00e1ndor V\u00e9gh. A who\u2019s-who of musicians led by current artistic director cellist Steven Isserlis casts a wide net whose haul includes the world premiere of Thomas Ad\u00e8s\u2019s N\u00f6v\u00e9nyek <\/em>for mezzo and piano sextet. .<\/span>
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An inspiring location: <\/strong>Prussia Cove, home of IMS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Roman Rabinovich <\/span><\/strong>
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 27 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.rwcmd.ac.uk<\/a>
The College launches the new academic year with a Whirlwinds Festival that embraces Boulez and Led Zeppelin. Its focus is wind instruments, but pianists aren\u2019t forgotten for long. The Steinway International Piano Series resumes, and Roman Rabinovich is in bellicose mood as he opens his November recital with Byrd\u2019s The Battell <\/em>\u2013 followed by Couperin, George Walker, Schubert\u2019s Wanderer Fantasy <\/em>and his own 2020 Sonatina. <\/p>\n\n

London Philharmonic Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Royal Festival Hall, London, 18, 22, 28 January <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.lpo.org.uk<\/a>
A sense of \u2018home\u2019 is the thematic driver behind the LPO\u2019s season, but it doesn\u2019t mean that familiarity is de rigueur. January is freighted with premieres: following the UK first performance of the Clarinet Concerto by Kinan Azmeh, next comes Tan Dun on 22 January, who introduces his <\/span>Buddha Passion; <\/em>and finally, there\u2019s a world premiere as V\u00edkingur \u00d3lafsson is the soloist in Mark Simpson\u2019s new Piano Concerto.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Ulster Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Ulster Hall, Belfast, 27 January <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.ulsterorchestra.org.uk<\/a>
The Ulster Orchestra opened its season with one of the grandest concertos of them all: Brahms\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2. And pianist Barry Douglas puts in an early appearance in 2023, performing a work he has long championed: Britten\u2019s flamboyant Piano Concerto. Jac Van Steen, who conducts that concert (which contains another relative rarity, Sibelius\u2019s Sixth Symphony), is evidently a Britten admirer, as he returns the following month to conduct the Violin Concerto with Dutch violinist Rosanne Philippens. <\/p>\n\n

Opera North <\/strong>
<\/span>Grand Theatre, Leeds, 4 February \u2013 4 March <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.operanorth.co.uk<\/a>
Semi-staged opera in concert usually signals \u2018end of season\u2019 for Opera North (this year, Bizet\u2019s The Pearl Fishers). <\/em>But a collaboration with Phoenix Dance Theatre affords a new perspective on Mozart\u2019s Requiem too. In February, nestling between Puccini\u2019s Tosca <\/em>and Strauss\u2019s Ariadne auf Naxos, <\/em>there\u2019s David Pountney\u2019s evergreen production of Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s The Cunning Little Vixen. <\/em>Garry Walker conducts. <\/p>\n\n

Royal Scottish National Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, 22 February <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.rsno.org.uk<\/a>
Music director Thomas S\u00f8nderg\u00e5rd ends the season next June with a choral blockbuster: Verdi\u2019s Requiem. And there\u2019s another choral landmark in November, Britten\u2019s War Requiem, <\/em>again conducted by S\u00f8nderg\u00e5rd (see Live Highlights, p114). In between, the orchestra\u2019s assistant conductor Kellen Gray champions composers such as William Grant Still and George Walker in the concert \u2018African American Voices\u2019, John Wilson conducts Copland and Rachmaninov, and in February, Junping Qian is transported to the south by Richard Strauss\u2019s <\/span>Aus Italien.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Royal Northern Sinfonia <\/span><\/strong>
Sage Gateshead, 3 March <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.sagegateshead.com<\/a>
Nobody could accuse Dinis Sousa of musical conservatism. The principal conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia opened the season with Kurt\u00e1g\u2019s (The Answered Unanswered Question) <\/em>and he closes with Martin\u016f and Brahms\u2019s \u2018Clarinet Concerto\u2019 (arranged by Berio from the first of the Op. 120 Clarinet Sonatas). In March he premieres a work specially commissioned from Kate Whitley set between Concert Rom\u00e2nesc, <\/em>Ligeti\u2019s snapshot of rural Romania, and Sibelius\u2019s incidental music to The Tempest. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Europe <\/h3>\n\n
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More than Mozart: <\/strong>Mitsuko Uchida will also play Kurt\u00e1g and Schumann in Lisbon <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Krystian Zimerman <\/span><\/strong>
KKL Luzern, Lucerne, 6 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.sinfonieorchester.ch<\/a>
The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra\u2019s programme includes a head-turning piano festival that in 2023 welcomes among others Evgeny Kissin (who shares a platform with soprano Ren\u00e9e Fleming), Martha Argerich and Vikingur \u00d3lafsson. By way of an October prelude, Krystian Zimerman and friends pair Brahms\u2019s Piano Quartets Opp. 26 & 60. <\/p>\n\n

Gulbenkian Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 6, 7 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.gulbenkian.pt<\/a>
The Xenakis centenary, Rapha\u00ebl Pichon\u2019s ensemble Pygmalion, and pianists including Mitsuko Uchida and Alexandre Kantorow are cheering on the orchestra\u2019s 60th anniversary, which also features a Mahler focus and Messiaen\u2019s La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur J\u00e9sus-Christ. <\/em>October sees the Portuguese premiere of Thomas Ad\u00e8s\u2019s Piano Concerto, coupled with Mahler\u2019s Das Lied von der Erde. <\/em>Hannu Lintu conducts. <\/p>\n\n

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Music Centre Concert Hall, Helsinki, 14 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: helsinginkaupunginorkesteri.fi\/en<\/a>
The Helsinki Philharmonic, 140 years after its first concert, themes the season around Finland and its music. Almost 30 Finnish composers are represented, and outgoing chief conductor Susanna M\u00e4lkki bows out with Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 3. She also presides over a 70th birthday concert in October for Kaija Saariaho, whose Notes on Light <\/em>and Verblendungen <\/em>are framed by Sibelius and a new piece by Matthew Whittall. <\/p>\n\n

Orchestra dell\u2019Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia <\/span><\/strong>
Santa Cecilia Hall, Rome, 18, 20, 22 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.santacecilia.it<\/a>
Music director Antonio Pappano doesn\u2019t just conduct this autumn; he also shares a piano stool with Beatrice Rana for Ravel as part of the chamber music strand. He opens the season with three October performances of Strauss\u2019s Elektra. <\/em>Ausrine Stundyte is the vengeful protagonist. <\/p>\n\n

Komische Oper <\/span><\/strong>
Berlin, 22 October \u2013 25 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.komische-oper-berlin.de<\/a>
Komische Oper might like to take an affectionate stroll on the lighter side with a hearty dose of operetta, but then there\u2019s Nono\u2019s Intolleranza 1960 <\/em>and Wagner\u2019s Flying Dutchman <\/em>to punctuate a repertoire rich in Handel, Mozart and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k. Barrie Kosky\u2019s production of Kurt Weill\u2019s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny <\/em>lends a Brechtian perspective to October and November. Roland Kluttig conducts. <\/p>\n\n

Netherlands Bach Society <\/span><\/strong>
De Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague, 30 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.bachvereniging.nl<\/a>
A hundred years ago last April, the fledgling Society introduced itself with a performance of JS Bach\u2019s St Matthew Passion, <\/em>and it\u2019s been serving the composer royally ever since \u2013 not least in the trailblazing online \u2018All of Bach\u2019 project. Masato Suzuki conducts next year\u2019s performances of the Passion; <\/em>but in the meantime, Leonardo Garcia Alarc\u00f3n leads a six-concert tour of Antonio Draghi\u2019s oratorio Il dono della vita eterna. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Concert House, Stockholm, 2-4 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.konserthuset.se<\/a>
With a composer festival devoted to Olga Neuwirth in November and Tobias Brostr\u00f6m\u2019s March\/April Composer Weekend, the orchestra\u2019s support for contemporary music complements a nod to the past as it celebrates Hugo Alfv\u00e9n\u2019s 150th birthday. At the start of November, Wagner\u2019s Wesendonck Lieder <\/em>with soprano Dorothea R\u00f6schmann offset the vivacity of Mendelssohn\u2019s \u2018Italian\u2019 Symphony in a concert conducted by Kristiina Poska. <\/p>\n\n

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Wonderful Wagner: <\/strong>Dorothea R\u00f6schmann will sing in Stockholm <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Alte Oper, Frankfurt, 7 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.berliner-philharmoniker.de<\/a>
The Berlin Phil is playing away, and not just in Frankfurt where Kirill Petrenko conducts Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 7 \u2013 the work with which he opened the current season. The Seventh is the cornerstone of a US tour which includes New York, Boston and Chicago. Back in Berlin he bids farewell to 2022 in the company of tenor Jonas Kaufmann and a Russo-Italian programme pairing Verdi and Mascagni, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky. <\/p>\n\n

Irish National Opera <\/span><\/strong>
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 8-12 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.irishnationalopera.ie<\/a>
Next year, Irish National Opera brings experimental music theatre to the Royal Opera\u2019s Linbury Theatre before indulging in the whipped cream of Strauss\u2019s Der Rosenkavalier. <\/em>In November, however, it takes aim at Rossini\u2019s operatic swansong: William Tell. <\/em>Fergus Sheil conducts its first Dublin outing in nearly 150 years. The director is Julien Chavaz. <\/p>\n\n

Mahler Chamber Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, 9 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.mahlerchamber.com<\/a>
Over its 25-year history the Mahler Chamber Orchestra has crossed five continents, notching up concerts in over 40 countries. So there\u2019s bound to be a celebratory spring in its well-travelled step this season. Between tours (directed by Leif Ove Andsnes and Mitsuko Uchida) majoring in Mozart, conductor Joana Mallwitz steers the November focus onto Schubert and Britten\u2019s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Danish National Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
DR Concert Hall, Copenhagen, 10, 12 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.drkoncerthuset.dk<\/a>
Schoenberg, Richard Strauss and Claude Vivier from soprano-conductor Barbara Hannigan plus a Nielsen symphony cycle are among 2023\u2019s Danish delights. And Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts two November performances of Mahler\u2019s ultimately elegiac Symphony No. 9. <\/p>\n\n

Iceland Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Harpa, Reykjav\u00edk, 17 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: en.sinfonia.is<\/a>
Jonathan Cohen conducts a special Advent programme. And Latvian violinist Baiba Skride joins Harriet Krijgh and Elspeth Moser for Gubaidulina\u2019s Concerto for Violin, Cello and Bayan, in a concert conducted by Olari Elts that includes Rachmaninov\u2019s Symphonic Dances <\/em>and a work by P\u00e1ll Ragnar. <\/p>\n\n

Vienna State Opera <\/span><\/strong>
Staatsoper Vienna, 20 November \u2013 20 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.wiener-staatsoper.at<\/a>
Hindemith\u2019s Cardillac <\/em>plus Calixto Bieito staging Mahler\u2019s Das Klagende Lied <\/em>and Kindertotenlieder <\/em>are among Vienna\u2019s more eye-catching productions this season. And in a fulsome Wagnerian offering, conducted by Philippe Jordan, Keith Warner\u2019s new production of Die Meistersinger <\/em>is unwrapped in December following November\u2019s preview matinee. <\/p>\n\n

Teatro Real <\/span><\/strong>
Teatro Real, Madrid, 20-24 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.teatroreal.es<\/a>
In a season straddling 500 years of repertoire, Spain\u2019s operatic f lagship ranges from Purcell and Wagner\u2019s Tristan und Isolde <\/em>to John Adams and Philip Glass\u2019s Orph\u00e9e. <\/em>But Glass\u2019s isn\u2019t the only Orpheus in town. In November Leonardo Garcia Alarc\u00f3n directs Vocalconsort Berlin and Freiburger Barockorchester in Monteverdi\u2019s game-changing L\u2019Orfeo. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Calidore Quartet <\/span><\/strong>
Rudolfinum, Prague, 21 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.ceskafilharmonie.cz<\/a>
Running in tandem with the Czech Philharmonic\u2019s programme, the Chamber Music Society enters its 128th season with 28 concerts in prospect. Tenor Ian Bostridge sings Schubert\u2019s Winterreise, <\/em>Jaroslav T\u016fma traverses Bach\u2019s Goldberg Variations <\/em>and a distinguished crop of string quartets musters locals such as the Pavel Haas Quartet and visitors including the Emersons. First up, the Calidore Quartet is joined by pianist Ivo Kah\u00e1nek for works by Wynton Marsalis, Smetana and Franck. <\/p>\n\n

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Bring on the pianist: <\/strong>Calidore Quartet will be joined by Ivo Kah\u00e1nek in Prague <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Orchestre de Paris <\/span><\/strong>
Philharmonie, Paris, 30 November, 1 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.philharmoniedeparis.fr<\/a>
Visiting international orchestras for 2022\/23 include the Czech Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra. But the Orchestre de Paris remains at the heart of the Philharmonie\u2019s symphonic regime. The young Finnish conductor Klaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4 presides over Mahler\u2019s \u2018Resurrection\u2019 Symphony at the end of November and prefaces it with a new work by Betsy Jolas. On 2 December he takes up his cello to pursue a synaesthetic approach to JS Bach with perfumer Francis Kurkdjian. <\/p>\n\n

La Scala <\/span><\/strong>
Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 4-29 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.teatrolascala.org<\/a>
Riccardo Chailly launches his ninth season as music director this December with Musorgsky\u2019s Boris Godunov <\/em>(1869 version), staged by Kasper Holten with Ildar Abdrazakov as the hapless tsar. Next April, Chailly will conduct Donizetti\u2019s Lucia di Lammermoor; <\/em>meanwhile Leonardo Vinci\u2019s comedy Li zite \u2018ngalera <\/em>unfurls a flag for the Italian Baroque. <\/p>\n\n

Les Arts Florissants<\/span> <\/strong>
Royal Chapel, Versailles, 16 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.arts-florissants.org<\/a>
William Christie\u2019s early music ensemble was named after a Charpentier opera, and as the festive season approaches, they decamp to Versailles for Christmas music by Charpentier including a selection of instrumental No\u00ebls and a large-scale motet for Christmas Day. At the start of December, they collaborate in a tribute to Betsy Jolas, while Gluck, Haydn and more Charpentier is in store for 2023. <\/p>\n\n

La Monnaie <\/span><\/strong>
La Monnaie, Brussels, 19 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.lamonnaie.be<\/a>
Saint-Sa\u00ebns\u2019s Henry VIII <\/em>and a hybrid portrait of Elizabeth I drawing on Donizetti\u2019s \u2018Tudor\u2019 operas piques curiosity in La Monnaie\u2019s adventurous season. But there\u2019s not just opera. In a packed concert programme, Antonio Pappano conducts the orchestra in Hans Zender\u2019s reimagining of Schubert\u2019s Winterreise, <\/em>with tenor Ian Bostridge. <\/p>\n\n

La Fenice <\/span><\/strong>
San Marco, Venice, 20, 21 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.teatrolafenice.it<\/a>
Venice\u2019s intimate jewel-box of a theatre doesn\u2019t just stage operas \u2013 Maderna\u2019s Satyricon <\/em>and Vivaldi\u2019s Orlando Furioso <\/em>this season \u2013 the orchestra (and chorus) also fuel an extensive concert series. This Christmas they get some time off, as Cappella Marciana performs Merulo\u2019s Messa di Natale <\/em>in the Basilica where it was first heard on Christmas Day 1582. <\/p>\n\n

Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra <\/strong>
<\/span>Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco, 21 January <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.opmc.mc<\/a>
With a mini-festival devoted to Mozart, and an October-to-May parade of pianists including Elisabeth Leonskaja, Piotr Anderszewski and Grigory Sokolov, the principality is awash with music. Mozart \u00e0 Monaco isn\u2019t January\u2019s only highlight, however. Mirga Gra\u017einyt\u0117-Tyla conducts the orchestra in a performance of Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 10 in the completion by Deryck Cooke. <\/p>\n\n

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra <\/strong>
<\/span>Isarphilharmonie, Munich, 3, 5 February <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.br-so.com<\/a>
Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Mehta and Iv\u00e1n Fisher are among the conductors appearing this season, but in February it\u2019s the turn of chief conductor designate Simon Rattle who leads an all-star cast in concert performances of Wagner\u2019s Siegfried <\/em>\u2013 repeated in Hamburg and Luxembourg. <\/p>\n\n

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USA & Canada <\/h3>\n\n
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Spreading the joy: <\/strong>Apollo\u2019s Fire performs Monteverdi and Bach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Los Angeles Philharmonic <\/span><\/strong>
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 6-9 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.laphil.com<\/a>
Whether nurturing the Pan-American Music Initiative or conducting four concert performances of Wagner\u2019s Tristan und Isolde, <\/em>music director Gustavo Dudamel is all over a season that celebrates John Adams\u2019s 75th birthday and, in February, Rachmaninov\u2019s complete piano concertos. There\u2019s Mahler in triplicate, launched in October by Dudamel, who pairs Symphony No. 1 with Gabriela Ortiz\u2019s new violin concerto. <\/p>\n\n

Apollo\u2019s Fire <\/span><\/strong>
Shaker Heights, Akron, Bay Village, 8-15 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.apollosfire.org<\/a>
Thirtieth anniversary celebrations done and dusted, Jeanette Sorrell\u2019s period instrument group promises \u2018sparks of joy in a fragmented world\u2019. There should be sparks aplenty in the first Ohio offering: Monteverdi\u2019s Vespers of 1610. <\/em>A \u2018Baroque Bistro\u2019 ushers in the new year, \u2018Exiles\u2019 tackles the Jewish and African diasporas, and in May, Bach beckons. <\/p>\n\n

New York Philharmonic <\/strong>
<\/span>David Geffen Hall, New York, 12-18 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.nyphil.org<\/a>
There\u2019s not just a new season in prospect but a new home too as the New York Phil repossesses the refurbished David Geffen Hall. In the opening concerts music director Jaap van Zweden premieres a work for light, electronics and orchestra by Marcos Balter alongside music by John Adams, Tania Le\u00f3n and Respighi. <\/p>\n\n

Seattle Opera <\/span><\/strong>
McCaw Hall, Seattle, 15-29 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.seattleopera.org<\/a>
From sparkling Donizetti to the premiere of Sheila Silver\u2019s opera based on Khaled Hosseini\u2019s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, <\/em>laughter and tears are woven into Seattle\u2019s operatic fare. October is given over to Wagner\u2019s Tristan und Isolde <\/em> in a new production by Marcelo Lombardero. Stefan Vinke and Mary Elizabeth Williams are the ill-fated pair. <\/p>\n\n

San Francisco Opera <\/span><\/strong><\/span>
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 15-30 October <\/em><\/strong><\/span>
Web: www.sfopera.com<\/a>
There are 100th birthday candles to be blown out this season \u2013and the September world premiere of John Adams\u2019s Anthony & Cleopatra <\/em>ensured an auspicious curtain-up. Sixty-five years after giving the US premiere of Poulenc\u2019s Dialogues des Carm\u00e9lites <\/em>there\u2019s a new production by Olivier Py starring Heidi Stober and conducted by Eun Sun Kim. <\/p>\n\n

Boston Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Symphony Hall, Boston, 20-22 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.bso.org<\/a>
The orchestra\u2019s ongoing Shostakovich cycle includes three symphonies and the piano concertos with Yuja Wang, and a \u2018Voices of Loss, Reckoning and Hope\u2019 festival addresses social justice. Among October\u2019s highlights, Andris Nelsons conducts two performances of Mahler\u2019s protean Symphony No. 6. <\/p>\n\n

Juilliard String Quartet <\/strong><\/span>
<\/span>Leo Rich Theater, Tucson, 26,27 October <\/em><\/strong><\/span>
Web: www.arizonachambermusic.org<\/a>
What with the Juilliards, the Tak\u00e1cs and Cuarteto Casals included in the series line-up, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music has a penchant for the string quartet medium. Celebrating their 75th anniversary, the Juilliards propose two programmes. The first enfolds works by J\u00f6rg Widmann within Beethoven\u2019s Op. 130 and Grosse Fuge, <\/em>the second bookends Eleanor Alberga\u2019s Quartet No. 2 with Beethoven and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k. <\/p>\n\n

Sarasota Opera <\/span><\/strong>
Opera House, Sarasota, 28 October-12 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.sarasotaopera.org<\/a>
There are wedding bells in Sarasota, but not everything is as it seems. Cimarosa\u2019s bubbly comic opera Il matrimonio segreto <\/em>says \u2018I do\u2019 in a new production by singerturned director Stephanie Sundine and conducted by Sarasota\u2019s artistic director Victor DeRenzi, who also spearheads 2023\u2019s stagings of Puccini\u2019s Madam Butterfly <\/em>and Verdi\u2019s Ernani. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Tafelmusik <\/span><\/strong>
Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St. Paul\u2019s Centre, Toronto, 28,29 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.tafelmusik.org<\/a>
For the second concert of the series, the Canadian period instrument ensemble slips the gears from a wind quintet by Reicha, through the young Mendelssohn\u2019s ebullient String Octet, to Farrenc\u2019s E flat Nonet. Highlights in 2023 include Bach\u2019s St John Passion <\/em>and dives into Rebel, Leclair and Rameau. <\/p>\n\n

Lyric Opera of Chicago <\/span><\/strong>
Lyric Opera House, Chicago, 9-25 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.lyricopera.org<\/a>
Having opened the season with Ernani <\/em>there\u2019s more Verdi in store: November alights on David McVicar\u2019s five-act original version of Don Carlos, <\/em>conducted by Enrique Mazzola. In February The Factotum <\/em>reimagines Rossini\u2019s demon barber through hip hop, while \u2018Proximity\u2019 musters a trilogy of premieres. <\/p>\n\n

National Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Kennedy Center, Washington, 10-12 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.kennedy-center.org<\/a>
There\u2019s a \u2018Symphonic Surprise\u2019 at the beginning of November, and later a pairing of Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Concerto for Orchestra and Ravel\u2019s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. In between, Anne Akiko Meyers gives the world premiere of Michael Daugherty\u2019s violin concerto <\/span>Blue Electra. <\/em>Conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, there\u2019s Barber, Wagner and Debussy, too.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Feeling blue: <\/strong>violinist Anne Akiko Meyers premieres Michael Daugherty\u2019s concerto <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Toronto Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, 16 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.tso.ca<\/a>
The Canadian orchestra celebrates its centenary across a season that includes cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Yuja Wang as featured artists. In November, Yo-Yo Ma joins a gala celebration that concludes with Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Cello Concerto. <\/p>\n\n

Cleveland Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Mandel Concert Hall, Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 17-19 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.clevelandorchestra.com<\/a>
Christmas is coming early this year. John Adams conducts El Ni\u00f1o, <\/em>his textually eclectic nativity oratorio this November. And with Christmas a distant memory, Thomas Ad\u00e8s conducts music from his The Tempest <\/em>in March. Music director Franz Welser-M\u00f6st also spearheads two November concert performances of Puccini\u2019s La fanciulla del West. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

San Diego Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, San Diego, 12,13 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.sandiegosymphony.org<\/a>
Including Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin, Garrick Ohlsson and Ingrid Fliter, San Diego doesn\u2019t just have a clutch of distinguished pianists to look forward to \u2013 next year the orchestra returns to its much-enhanced Jacobs Music Center home. Emanuel Ax also plays Beethoven\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 3 in a November concert conducted by Rafael Payare alongside Shostakovich\u2019s Symphony \u2018The Year 1917\u2019. <\/p>\n\n

Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al <\/span><\/strong>
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montr\u00e9al, <\/em><\/strong>18-26 March<\/strong><\/span>
Web: www.operademontreal.com<\/a>
Italy has the first and last word in a lineup bound by Verdi and Puccini. And in March, Ainadamar, <\/em>Osvaldo Golijov\u2019s homage to Lorca, probes the writer\u2019s life against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War. To November falls La beaut\u00e9 du monde <\/em>by Michel Marc Bouchard and Julien Bilodeau, set in war-torn Paris. <\/p>\n\n

Metropolitan Opera <\/span><\/strong>
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York, 22 November \u2013 15 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.metopera.org<\/a>
From Aida <\/em>to Die Zauberf l\u00f6te, <\/em>the Met fields an operatic A-Z including three premieres and seven new productions, among them Terence Blanchard\u2019s swerve into the word of boxing: Champion. <\/em>In November is the world premiere of Kevin Puts\u2019s The Hours. <\/em>Uniting Ren\u00e9e Fleming, Joyce DiDonato and Kelli O\u2019Hara, it\u2019s directed by Phelim McDermott. Yannick N\u00e9zet-Seguin conducts. <\/p>\n\n

Emerson Quartet <\/span><\/strong>
Playhouse, Vancouver, 4 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.friendsofchambermusic.ca<\/a>
The Vancouver-based Friends of Chamber Music mine a rich seam of string quartet repertoire this season. Ensembles include Quartetto di Cremona, the Juilliard and Tak\u00e1cs Quartets, and, before it disbands later next year, the Emerson Quartet is joined in December by founding cellist Eric Wilson for Schubert\u2019s Quintet D956. <\/p>\n\n

Orchestre symphonique de Montr\u00e9al <\/span><\/strong>
Maison symphonique, Montr\u00e9al, 7, 10, 11 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.osm.ca<\/a>
Rafael Payare\u2019s first full season as music director underscores his ambition with performances of Mahler\u2019s Symphonies Nos 2, 3 and 5. Elsewhere, he\u2019s joined by intrepid soprano Barbara Hannigan in a programme pairing Berlioz and Sibelius with Nono and Vivier\u2019s love song of solitude: Lonely Child. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

Philadelphia Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Verizon Hall, Philadelphia, 13,14 January <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.philorch.org<\/a>
Fresh from a summer\u2019s European tour and an opening night to the season featuring Lang Lang and BalletX, the orchestra rolls up its January sleeves for a meaty programme setting Sibelius\u2019s Violin Concerto between John Adams\u2019s Dr Atomic Symphony <\/em>and Ravel\u2019s Daphnis and Chlo\u00e9 <\/em>Suite No. 2. Roderick Cox is the conductor; Augustin Hadelich, the soloist. <\/p>\n\n

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Winter Festival <\/span><\/strong>
Alice Tully Hall, New York, 22 January-12 February <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.chambermusicsociety.org<\/a>
This year\u2019s festival is a Schubertiade writ large across four concerts exploring the songs and chamber music. A fifth tracks Schubert\u2019s inf luence on composers as diverse as Liszt, Mahler, Korngold, Previn and John Harbison. <\/p>\n\n

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Rest of the World <\/h3>\n\n

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Top artists down under:<\/strong> tenor Joseph Calleja visits New Zealand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

New Zealand Opera <\/span><\/strong>
Mayfair Theatre, Dunedin, New Zealand, 12, 13 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.nzopera.com<\/a>
Given its world premiere last May, Kenneth Young\u2019s The Strangest of Angels <\/em>gets a second outing in October as part of the Dunedin Arts Festival. But it\u2019s not the only new work in New Zealand Opera\u2019s armoury this season. December brings Ihitai \u2018Avei\u2019a \u2013 Star Navigator <\/em>by Tim Finn (of Crowded House fame). Verdi\u2019s Macbeth, <\/em>meanwhile, stalks Wellington and Christchurch; and on 27 October Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja gives a recital in Auckland. <\/p>\n\n

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
The Lowy Concert Hall, Tel Aviv, Israel, 10-15 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.ipo.co.il<\/a>
Pianists Martha Argerich and Andr\u00e1s Schiff plus violinists Vilde Frang and Gil Shaham are among the high-profile soloists as the Israel Philharmonic\u2019s 86th season spices things up with Ravel\u2019s opera L\u2019heure espagnole <\/em>and part of Penderecki\u2019s Paradise Lost. <\/em>To set the ball rolling on 10 October, Lahav Shani conducts Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9 alongside works by Arvo P\u00e4rt and Sibelius. <\/p>\n\n

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Lio Kuokman is in charge in Hong Kong<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra<\/span> <\/strong>
Cultural Centre Concert Hall, Hong Kong, 21, 22 October <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.hkphil.org<\/a>
From chamber music to Cantonese opera and a collaboration with Opera Hong Kong on Verdi\u2019s La Traviata, <\/em>the the Hong Kong Philharmonic likes to ring the changes, and finally gets to welcome back music director Jaap van Zweden. Conductor Lio Kuokman, however, is at the helm for October\u2019s ascent of Strauss\u2019s majestic Alpine Symphony <\/em>\u2013 with Korngold\u2019s Violin Concerto as Strauss\u2019s climbing companion. <\/p>\n\n

Opera Australia <\/span><\/strong>
Sydney Opera House, Australia, 29 October \u2013 5 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.opera.org.au<\/a>
Puccini\u2019s Madam Butterfly <\/em>is the spectacular al fresco production on Sydney Harbour next March-April, and Bizet\u2019s Carmen <\/em>struts her stuff on Cockatoo Island. Over October and November, meanwhile, Andrea Battistoni conducts Verdi\u2018s epic Attila. <\/em>Directed by Davide Livermore, in a co-production with La Scala Milan, it features Ukrainian bass Taras Berezhansky in the title role. <\/p>\n\n

Europa Galante <\/span><\/strong>
Sapporo Concert Hall, Sapporo, Japan, 2 November <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.kitara-sapporo.or.jp<\/a>
Sapporo\u2019s state-of-the-art venue, called by Simon Rattle \u2018the best modern concert hall in the world\u2019, celebrates its 25th anniversary. The resident Sapporo Symphony Orchestra plays Beethoven\u2019s Ninth in December. An October recital by pianist Andr\u00e1s Schiff includes Mozart and Schubert, while Fabio Biondi\u2019s Europa Galante prefaces Vivaldi with Corelli, Geminiani and Locatelli. <\/p>\n\n

Singapore Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore, 7, 8 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.sso.org.sg<\/a>
Hans Graf, now the SSO\u2019s music director, in October enlists Alexei Volodin for Stravinsky\u2019s Concerto for Piano and Winds plus the Capriccio. December finds Krystian Zimerman multi-tasking across two Beethoven \u20184s\u2019 \u2013 directing Piano Concerto No. 4 from the keyboard before conducting Symphony No. 4. <\/p>\n\n

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra <\/span><\/strong>
Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall, China, 24, 25 December <\/em><\/strong>
Web: www.shsymphony.com<\/a>
China\u2019s oldest symphony orchestra welcomes soprano Guanqun Yu as artist-in-residence in a season that marshals three world premieres and a Wagnerian finale. Joined by soloists including violinist Ning Feng and pianist Haochen Zhang, music director Long Yu presides over eleven concerts, among them Bizet\u2019s Carmen <\/em>in January and two December performances of Verdi\u2019s Requiem. <\/p>\n\n

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