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Luigi Rossi's Orfeo makes it a hat trick for Pygmalion at the Adelaide Festival
✍️ Sandra Bowdler
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“A triumph of rigour over razzmatazz”: Paavo Järvi marks his new @lporchestra.bsky.social appointment in Tchaikovsky and Sibelius
✍️ Mark Valencia
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So, Tristan and Nemorino walk into a bar...
A week before tenor Michael Spyres makes his debut as Tristan at the Met, he chats with old friend – and Bachtrack writer – Chanda VanderHart for an entertaining catch-up!
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Riccardo Chailly makes a highly anticipated return to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
✍️ Max Lima
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Kazuki Yamada and @thecbso.bsky.social stir up swelling seas with Scheherazade
✍️ Robert Gainer
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Ariadne in Rome: David Hermann’s Strauss staging highlights contrasts @operaroma.bsky.social
✍️ Pia Maltri
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Julia Bullock in Perle noire: Meditations for Joséphine at the Adelaide Festival
✍️ Sandra Bowdler
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Weinberg rarity overshadows John Williams premiere at @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social
✍️ Cameron Kelsall
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Architecture over opulence: Vienna Philharmonic close their Carnegie Hall residency with Andris Nelsons
✍️ Edward Sava-Segal
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Järvi conducts the orchestra tomorrow at the @southbankcentre.bsky.social before embarking on a mini-tour to Budapest and Athens:
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News: Paavo Järvi to become the next Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor at the London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social
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A totally stunning Monteverdi Vespers by Pygmalion at the Adelaide Festival
✍️ Sandra Bowdler
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Contemplation and exuberance from Andris Nelsons and the Vienna Philharmonic at @carnegiehall.bsky.social
✍️ Susan Stempleski
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Porgy and Bess: Catfish Row arrives in Kansas City @kcopera.bsky.social
✍️ Hilary Stroh
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Astonishing Mahler 2 from Runnicles and the BBC Scottish SO and Edinburgh Festival Chorus
✍️ David Smythe
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Good Night World: Pygmalion opens the Adelaide Festival in style
✍️ Sandra Bowdler
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Love is in the hare: a new Cunning Little Vixen opens at the Staatsoper Berlin
✍️ Elena Luporini
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A curious evening from Noseda, Kopatchinskaja and the London Symphony Orchestra
✍️ Mark Valencia
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Greenwood everywhere: avant-garde echoes meet minimalist soundscapes in Manchester @thehalle.bsky.social
✍️ Pwyll ap Sion
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Mixed Mozart from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
✍️ Dominic Lowe
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Portrait of Frédéric Chopin by Thomas Couture (1845-49)

Frédéric Chopin was born on 1st March 1810. Enjoy performances by some great pianists in our top ten playlist, from Martha Argerich and Arthur Rubinstein to Yuja Wang and Yunchan Lim: bachtrack.com/playlist-top...

Portrait of Frédéric Chopin by Maria Wodzińska (1836)

Frédéric Chopin was born OTD in 1810. Selecting a top ten was not an easy task, but waltzes, polonaises, mazurkas, études and more are all represented...
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Once again, Gioachino Rossini misses out on his birthday (29th Feb 1792), so let's celebrate him today! 🥳 bachtrack.com/playlist-gio...

The joys of life and, perhaps, a good death: Beethoven and Strauss thrill at @cadoganhall.bsky.social with the @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social
✍️ Christopher Woodley
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A poignant Rigoletto revival in Tokyo
✍️ Nahoko Gotoh
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Mozart + mezzos = trousers roles: Marianne Crebassa gives a masterclass with @themozartists.bsky.social at @wigmore-hall.org.uk
✍️ Mark Pullinger
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Ólafsson and Salonen channel Bach for a brilliant UK premiere of John Adams’ After the Fall @philharmonialondon.bsky.social
✍️ David Karlin
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Mahler survives unusual pairing as the Sydney Symphony opens its 2026 season with Das Lied von der Erde
✍️ Jeremy Eccles
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From authority to spontaneity: Karina Canellakis, Anne-Sophie Mutter and the @lporchestra.bsky.social on tour at the @elbphilharmonie.de
✍️ Mengguang Huang
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