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The Song of Hiawatha review – Rafael Payare reveals the riches of Coleridge-Taylor’s hit cantata

Festival director Nicola Benedetti’s bold programming of these once-popular Victorian cantatas paid off with a crisp chorus and strong soloists tautly conducted

The Guardian - UK

Turandot review – with high energy, mighty voices and delicacy, epic staging feels newly minted

Andrei Serban’s 1984 production of Puccini’s final opera is meticulously revived with Sondra Radvanovsky and SeokJong Baek both stellar in the central roles. In the pit, Rafael Payare brings care and lightness to the score

The Guardian - UK

Top Venezuelan pianist urges music world to snub youth orchestra linked to Maduro

Gabriela Montero asks promoters to cut ties with El Sistema on 2025 Europe tour, after alleged theft of election

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Orchestre symphonique de Montréal/Payare review – colour, pace and silky strings

The North American musicians and their Venezuelan conductor brought a programme of Habibi, Berlioz and Beethoven – with Javier Perianes the soloist in his first piano concerto – to London

The Guardian - UK

Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande; Verklärte Nacht album review – brightness without transfiguration

Careful textures, brisk pace and the Montreal Symphony’s transparent sound are among the highlights of not fully convincing set to mark the composer’s 150th anniversary

The Guardian - UK

Making music is a family affair for Alisa Weilerstein and Rafael Payare

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and conductor Rafael Payare are on a four-concert cross-country run that ends Friday night at Carnegie Hall

The Independent UK

San Diego Symphony delays fall reopening of its concert hall as $125 million renovation continues

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Symphony is pushing back until next year its return to Copley Symphony Hall at Jacobs Music Center, where the orchestra had been scheduled to open its 2023/2024 Jacobs Masterworks concert series on Nov. 4.

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San Diego Symphony, led by Rafael Payare, will perform at Carnegie Hall this fall for 1st time in a decade

SAN DIEGO — Start spreading the news: The San Diego Symphony will perform this fall at Carnegie Hall.

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‘It takes a community to develop a musician’: the Royal Philharmonic Society’s John Gilhooly

In an edited extract from his speech at the 2023 Royal Philharmonic awards, its chairman urges joined up thinking to ensure a healthy future for an art form that is central to the wellbeing and prosperity of our national life

The Guardian - UK

The Barber of Seville review – Payare’s perky Rossini makes this revival fizz

With rising newcomers such as Aigul Akhmetshina and veterans such as Bryn Terfel, this is an irresistible performance conducted with verve by Rafael Payare, in his ROH debut

The Guardian - UK

San Diego Symphony launches $125 million renovation of Jacobs Music Center and Copley Symphony Hall

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Symphony aimed sky-high with last summer’s opening of The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, its $85 million outdoor concert venue nestled between the bay and the downtown skyline. Now, the 112-year-old orchestra is aiming even higher with Wednesday's announcement of the $125 million renovation…

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