Classical preview for the year ahead

Making classical music's headlines in 2018 Opera North return their award winning Kiss Me Kate to Leeds Grand Theatre in May; the Dresden Philharmonic celebrate its recent bicentenary in Leeds Town Hall (May 19), and the BBC New Generation Artists Programme comes to the Ryedale Festival in March .
By The Newsroom
Published 5th Jan 2018, 09:59 BST
ON SONG: Tenor James Gilchrist appears in York Universitys Song Day.ON SONG: Tenor James Gilchrist appears in York Universitys Song Day.
ON SONG: Tenor James Gilchrist appears in York Universitys Song Day.

The City of Birmingham Symphony bring to Sheffield’s City Hall one of the world’s most dynamic young conductors, Mirga Grazinte-Tyla, as their new music director in an evening that includes works by Debussy and Stravinsky (March 16).

Those chasing elusive operas will head for Buxton for an extremely rare staging of Verdi’s Alzira performed throughout the International Festival in July.

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Leeds Lieder Festival offers highly regarded young singers in a programme of Poetry in Song (April 19-22) and York University’s Song Day at the National Centre for Early Music will feature the tenor James Gilchrist (February 17).

In the choral world Leeds Festival and Philharmonic Choruses join with the Orchestra of Opera North in a performance of Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust in Leeds Town Hall (May 12), while Britten’s War Requiem will be bringing together the York University Chorus and Orchestra with a stellar line-up of soloists in York Minster (June 20).

Chamber music thrives in the region, Sheffield’s Crucible Studio hosting a weekend of Music and Song from France’s Golden Age (March 9-11) and Huddersfield’s St Paul’s Hall 2018 series will include the celebrated Prazak Quartet (April 23).

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