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The week in classical: Proms 30: Sinfonia of London/Wilson; Prom 31: Dialogues of the Carmelites; Oxford piano festival – review

The Albert Hall swooned to the sound of the Sinfonia of London and was silenced by Glyndebourne’s semi-staged Poulenc, while in Oxford you couldn’t move for great pianists

The Guardian - UK

Semele at Glyndebourne review: a fresh angle on the incendiary story

Director Adele Thomas invites us to look at the myth in a different way

Evening Standard

Just Stop Oil protesters interrupt opera at Glyndebourne festival

Three activists use glitter cannons and air horns during performance of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites

The Guardian - UK

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Dialogues des Carmélites at Glyndebourne review: utterly enthralling and searingly timely

Never has Poulenc’s masterpiece seemed so searingly a work of our time

Evening Standard

'Huge blow' for Glyndebourne sees 2023 tour cancelled after annual funding slashed by 50%

The Glyndebourne tour would have seen hundreds of children singing with the Glyndebourne Chorus, workshops in care homes and chamber music recitals in universities - which will no longer happen this year

Wales Online

Glyndebourne cancels 2023 tour after cuts to its public funding

The tour would have visited Liverpool, Canterbury, Norwich and Milton Keynes.

The Independent UK

ENO’s It’s a Wonderful Life star Danielle de Niese: ‘We need opera, we can’t just do Instagram and Tiktok’

The soprano on starring in an opera adaptation of the much-loved film, being at the ENO when its funding was cut and what it feels like on stage when audiences boo

Evening Standard

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BBC Proms 2022: Prom 44 Ethel Smyth review - a triumphant return for her long-forgotten Mass

There’s been a recent resurgence of interest in the early 20th century composer and this was a triumphant return for her Mass

Evening Standard

The week in classical: Alcina; The Blue Woman

Handel’s sorceress goes to the cabaret in Francesco Micheli’s fabulously glitzy production, while Katie Mitchell directs a powerful exploration of violence against women

The Guardian - UK

Alcina at Glyndebourne review: An extravagant mash-up

Not everything adds up, but this lavish production definitely puts on a show

Evening Standard

‘She’s badass’: how brick-throwing suffragette Ethel Smyth composed an opera to shake up Britain

She was bisexual, served a prison sentence, and was so outraged by cuts to her opera The Wreckers that she stormed the orchestra pit. Finally, this summer, it will be heard as its extraordinary composer intended

The Guardian - UK

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