Hailed by many commentators as a choral masterpiece, Delius’s A Mass of Life is an expansive choral extravaganza taking inspiration from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. The composer interprets the writer’s ideas as a paean

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Proms 2025: Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich – Opera Today

Duck-quacking effects aside (in the opening work, The Boy and the Heron), this was a dark concert. Both Joe Hisaishi’s The End of the World and Steve Reich’s The Desert Music deal with themes of

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25.08.2025

The Barber of Seville at Cape Town – Opera Today

There is no more remote place on earth than Cape Town to experience opera. At the juncture of two vast Oceans and over 8,000 km south of the nearest opera houses in Europe, the art

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25.08.2025

Proms 2025: Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet – Opera Today

This should be what the Proms is all about. ‘Super-size me,’ said Cosimo I de’ Medici when asking for music (probably not a direct quote); and there is certainly a lot of historical weight here. Alessandro

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