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Colonials mess with Shakespeare and get a global hit

Making Shakespeare's longest play into a successful opera is no easy feat, but an adaptation by "a bunch of colonials" is premiering at the Sydney Opera House.

The week in classical: Lucia di Lammermoor; Nash Ensemble; Anthony McGill and Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective – review

The week in classical: Lucia di Lammermoor; Nash Ensemble; Anthony McGill and Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective – review

A fearless central performance anchors Katie Mitchell’s busy yet insightful Donizetti revival. And two chamber concerts serve as a vibrant prelude to this year’s BBC Proms…

The Guardian - UK

Betts-Dean/Armida Quartet review – drama and charisma as Brett Dean, and daughter, turn to Mary Queen of Scots

Betts-Dean/Armida Quartet review – drama and charisma as Brett Dean, and daughter, turn to Mary Queen of Scots

Matthew Jocelyn and Brett Dean’s 2021 song cycle based on the Scottish Queen’s letters was perfectly partnered with Dean’s new arrangement of Schumann, and Janáček’s second string quartet

The Guardian - UK

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Allan Clayton: ‘I’m your tortured tenor for hire’

His committed performances and expressive voice have made him one of today’s most admired singers. As he prepares for Jephtha at Covent Garden, Allan Clayton ponders creativity, pigeonholes and facial hair

The Guardian - UK

LPO/Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall: Brett Dean’s premiere showed a right royal row (again)

This new work by the orchestra’s composer-in-residence oscillated between the dramatic and the contemplative

Evening Standard

In This Brief Moment review – Darwin, Genesis and whirlygigs in Brett Dean’s mindblowing cantata

Dean’s five-part evolution cantata was brought to vivid life by Nicholas Collon and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The Guardian - UK

Prom 48: Australian World Orchestra/Zubin Mehta review – a remarkable and rare return

The conductor was back at the Proms for the first time sine 2011 with a rather special orchestra

The Guardian - UK

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Classical home listening: Beethoven, Brett Dean and John Frederick Lampe…

Classical home listening: Beethoven, Brett Dean and John Frederick Lampe…

Vladimir Jurowski and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester excel in an ideal double bill. And top soloists and the Brook Street Band have fun with 18th-century Yorkshire-set farce

The Guardian - UK

Met's new 'Hamlet': To be or not to be true to the text

Met's new 'Hamlet': To be or not to be true to the text

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, all right, but not as Shakespeare imagined

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