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Europe is alive with the sound of music of all kinds through the summer, and here theartsdesk brings you listings of this year's attractions, many of which you can still get tickets for and combine culture with splendid cities and landscapes. From avant-garde dance music at Barcelona's Sonar to deepest Wagner in Bayreuth, this is the unmissable clickable guide to a cultivated European trip.
Jerry Springer - The Shoes? The autumn season at Sadler’s Wells opens booking today. Featured attractions include Shoes, a new opera-dance musical by the creator of Jerry Springer - The Opera, the long-overdue revival of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on a UK tour, and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in Bausch's sombre Gluck dance-opera Iphigenie auf Tauris. Contemporary British masters Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (praise be), Wayne McGregor’s Random, Russell Maliphant and Akram Khan have new work to show. Still no Paul Taylor, the glaring omission for many years, but the ballet listings are headed by American Ballet Theatre, who have a Taylor hit on their programmes for next February, Birmingham Royal Ballet include Twyla Tharp, and the drag ballet troupe The Trocks offer their unique spin on Merce Cunningham and some very ancient Russian ballet.
Get your tent and ice-box and plan your summer's entertainment with theartsdesk's definitive clickable festival guide - listings and links for all the UK festivals this summer, from heavy rock by Scottish lochs to Morris-dancing in the south west, and taking on opera, classical and major international arts festivals for good measure. If you know of a festival we've missed, please email
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with brief details of venue, booked artists and the website and we'll put it in for the world to see.
The Wigmore Hall announced today a roster of world-famous pianists and singers for next season, including Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich, Daniel Barenboim, Dame Mitsuko Uchida, Emanuel Ax, Maria João Pires, Andras Schiff, Elisabeth Leonskaja and, in two lecture-recitals, Alfred Brendel. Singers include sopranos Karita Mattila - who opens the season on 10 September - Diana Damrau and Kate Royal, tenors Jonas Kaufmann (in Die Schöne Müllerin) and Christoph Prégardien, counter-tenors Philippe Jaroussky, Andreas Scholl and Iestyn Davies, mezzos Angelika Kirchschlager, Bernarda Fink, Cecilia Bartoli and Anne Sofie von Otter, along with regular baritone recitalists Matthias Goerne, Thomas Quasthoff, Wolfgang Holzmair and Simon Keenlyside.
It's that time again. The BBC Proms - in classical music terms, the greatest show on Earth - begin tonight with Mahler's massive Eighth Symphony. From Bryn Terfel in Wagner on the second night of the Proms to Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Monteverdi's Vespers on the second-to-last night. theartsdesk's music writers choose the performances they're looking forward to.
English National Opera’s 2010-11 season includes 10 new productions, including ENO premieres of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia and Handel’s Radamisto. There will be two new contemporary operas for the main stage: the world premiere of a new opera by Nico Muhly and the UK premiere of A Dog’s Heart by Alexander Raskatov. ENO directing debuts will be made by Benedict Andrews (The Return of Ulysses), Mike Figgis (Lucrezia Borgia), Terry Gilliam (The Damnation of Faust), Des McAnuff (Faust), Simon McBurney (A Dog’s Heart), Rufus Norris (Don Giovanni), Bartlett Sher (new Nico Muhly opera) and Dmitri Tcherniakov (Simon Boccanegra).
Modern culture in the "New Worlds" of the Americas and Australasia is this year's Edinburgh International Festival theme. Ranging from California to Canberra, New York to New Zealand, Santiago to Samoa, the festival runs from Friday 13 August to Sunday 5 September.
The Royal Opera’s 2010/11 season contains eight world premieres - including Mark-Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole - two UK premieres, five new productions and 14 revivals. The Royal Ballet listings offer eight full-length ballets and five mixed programmes, including the world premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's full-length Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Mahler, Mahler and anyone who even remotely knew Mahler. There is, of course, more to the South Bank's forthcoming season than this but the great symphonic agoniser (and his many chums) forms the bedrock of the programming as we all go wild for his 150th (birth) and 100th (death) anniversaries this and next year.
Last year the Society of London Theatres was able to post record receipts in the teeth of the worst economic circumstances since the 1930s. People flocked to the West End, seemingly in search not only of solace, but also quality. It wasn't just the musicals which prospered. Leading the charge was the Donmar Warehouse with a near sell-out run across a year at Wyndhams Theatre. Red takes up residence on Broadway next month, and there will no doubt be further break-outs into the West End and on to New York as they announced a year whose listings include a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Passion on the occasion of his 80th birthday and Derek Jacobi in King Lear.
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