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The Latest Breaking News from Samuel Barber

Can new works revitalize opera?

Composers are always making new operas, but leaders in the opera world stress the need for emotional immediacy

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Joyce DiDonato sings Berlioz review – you could almost feel the asp’s poison seeping into her veins

The mezzo-soprano’s hair-raising performance of The Death of Cleopatra was a tour de force, a suitable curtain-raiser for the LPO’s new season, with Edward Gardner and orchestra on fine form

The Guardian - UK

Philharmonia/Bancroft review – fearless and fiery Copland is a dark heart of US programme

Part of the London-based orchestra’s season of American music, the programme featured Copland, Caroline Shaw and Samuel Barber’s violin concerto, brilliantly played by Renaud Capuçon

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John Adams sets Shakespeare's play about love and politics

When composer John Adams decided to base his new work on Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” he was aware that the project might evoke an unhappy chapter in opera history

The Independent UK

Classical home listening: Roderick Williams; Mother, Sister, Daughter; and BBC concerts from Wigmore Hall

A rich democracy of talent soars on a voice and string quartet album; Mother, Sister, Daughter’s vespers from Italian convents; plus lunchtime piano recitals

The Guardian - UK

Samuel Barber: The Complete Songs review – characterful overview of a great songwriter

Every song Barber is known to have written is brought to life by 10 UK singers, including Nicky Spence and Mary Bevan

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