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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 11h

A spellbinding Turn of the Screw from Victorian Opera in Melbourne ✍️ Sandra Bowdler bachtrack.com/review-turn-...

Kanen Breen (Peter Quint), Rachelle Durkin (Governess) and Oliver Thadoe Naing (Miles)
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 12h

Opulence and vigour from Seong-Jin Cho and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ✍️ Max Lima bachtrack.com/review-slobo...

Dima Slobodeniouk and Seong-Jin Cho
© Simon van Boxtel

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 29/09/2026

The double bass enjoys the Sage Two limelight @rnsinfonia.bsky.social @theglasshouseicm.bsky.social ✍️ Nick Butters bachtrack.com/review-duerd...

Siân Hicks and Will Duerden
© Tynesight Media

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 28/09/2026

Frank Martin’s fascinating La Tempête opens the season at the Grand Théâtre de Genève ✍️ Romain Daroles bachtrack.com/critique-la-...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 28/09/2026

Storms without the stress: Daniel Harding and the @berliner-philharmoniker.de in Mahler 2 ✍️ Hugo Shirley bachtrack.com/review-hardi...

Daniel Harding, Johanna Wallroth and Marianne Crebassa
© Bettina Stöß

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 28/09/2026

The Vestal's Tale: Lydia Steier's dystopian La Vestale opens in Berlin ✍️ Elena Luporini bachtrack.com/review-spont...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 28/09/2026

Warning and consolation: Britten's War Requiem from the @lporchestra.bsky.social and Edward Gardner ✍️ Roy Westbrook bachtrack.com/review-gardn...

Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
© Andy Paradise

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 28/09/2026

Federica Lombardi and Samantha Hankey shine in the Met’s Coney Island Così fan tutte revival ✍️ Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-cosi-...

Federica Lombardi (Fiordiligi)
© Marty Sohl | Met Opera

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 28/09/2026

From chamber intimacy to the edge of chaos: James Ehnes and Xian Zhang in Seattle ✍️ Thomas May bachtrack.com/review-zhang...

Xian Zhang conducts the Seattle Symphony
© Seattle Symphony | James Holt

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 28/09/2026

Colour and light: Ensemble 360 shimmer in trios in Sheffield @musicintheround.bsky.social ✍️ Phil Parker bachtrack.com/review-ensem...

Tim Horton, Gemma Rosefield and Benjamin Nabarro
© Matthew Johnson

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 26/09/2026

Baroque’n’roll Vivaldi from Pekka Kuusisto and Ale Carr in @auroraorchestra.bsky.social jam session at the @southbankcentre.bsky.social ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-kuusi...

Pekka Kuusisto, Ale Carr and Aurora Orchestra
© Chuko Cribb

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 25/09/2026

The White Pearl: New Zealand Opera reframes Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles ✍️ Simon Holden bachtrack.com/review-pearl...

Samuel Dundas (Zurga), Madison Nonoa (Leïla), Anthony Robin Schneider (Nourabad) and chorus
© Andi Crown

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 25/09/2026

Firing blanks: Oxford International Opera’s aimless Tosca ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-tosca...

Carmen Giannattasio (Tosca) and Saimir Pirgu (Cavaradossi)
© Alex Brenner

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 22/09/2026

Gothic and Greek: Welsh National Opera’s double bill opens in Cardiff @welshnatopera.bsky.social ✍️ Mark Valencia bachtrack.com/review-blueb...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 22/09/2026

Peter de Caluwe appointed Artistic Director of Salzburg Festival bachtrack.com/news-peter-d...

Designated Artistic Director Peter de Caluwe and Kristina Hammer, President of the Salzburg Festival
© SF/Jan Friese

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 21/09/2026

Golden-hued: Nadine Sierra stars in La Scala's Traviata revival ✍️ Laura Servidei bachtrack.com/review-travi...

Nadine Sierra (Violetta) and ensemble
© Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 21/09/2026

A Singapore premiere for Shostakovich 4 ✍️ Chang Tou Liang bachtrack.com/review-petre...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 21/09/2026

Nil Venditti appointed chief conductor of Lahti Symphony Orchestra bachtrack.com/news-nil-ven...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 21/09/2026

Thomas Søndergård’s final @rsno.bsky.social season opens with majestic Mahler ✍️ Simon Thompson bachtrack.com/review-sonde...

Royal Scottish National Orchestra precussionists
© Martin Shields

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 21/09/2026

From tragedy to triumph: Gustavo Dudamel makes impressive start to @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social tenure ✍️ Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-dudam...

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic
© Brandon Patoc

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 19/09/2026

Bracing Rossini from the Monteverdi Choir and ORR at Ally Pally ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-rossi...

Jakob Lehmann conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
© Paul Marc Mitchell

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 18/09/2026

Claus Guth's cerebral Le nozze di Figaro staging revived at @operaroma.bsky.social ✍️ Pia Maltri bachtrack.com/review-figar...

Roberta Mantegna (Countess Almaviva), Elmina Hasan (Cherubino) and Martina Russomanno (Susanna)

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 18/09/2026

Kazuki Yamada brings impressive solemnity to @thecbso.bsky.social’s Mahler 2 at Symphony Hall ✍️ Simon Cummings bachtrack.com/review-yamad...

Kazuki Yamada conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
© Hannah Blake-Fathers

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 18/09/2026

Exuberance and introspection in equal measure at the @liverpoolphil.bsky.social's opening concert of new season ✍️ Glyn Mon Hughes bachtrack.com/review-manze...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 18/09/2026

Blood flowing fast: Aribert Reimann's Lear takes off at Tempelhof Airport ✍️ David Grundy bachtrack.com/review-reima...

Scott Hendricks (Lear)
© Monika Rittershaus

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 17/09/2026

News: the @philharmonialondon.bsky.social has appointed Manfred Honeck as its next Principal Conductor bachtrack.com/news-manfred...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 17/09/2026

11-year-old Jayden King becomes youngest winner in Enescu Competition history bachtrack.com/news-jayden-...

Prize winners of the George Enescu International Competition
© Alex Damian

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 17/09/2026

In full swing: the Chineke! Orchestra and Cape Town Opera bring Porgy and Bess to Berlin ✍️ Elena Luporini bachtrack.com/review-gersh...

Nonhlanhla Yende (Bess) and Siyabulela Ntlale (Porgy)
© Berliner Festspiele, Foto: Fabian Schellhorn

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 17/09/2026

John Neumeier’s more human take on a classic fairytale lacks magic in Hamburg ✍️ Vikki Jane Vile bachtrack.com/review-a-cin...

Francesco Cortese, João Santana and Jack Bruce in John Neumeier’s A Cinderella Story
© Kiran West

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 16/09/2026

Handel’s Alcina bewitches hearts and minds again at Covent Garden ✍️ Christopher Woodley bachtrack.com/review-alcin...

Lisette Oropesa (Alcina)
© RBO | Ian Hippolyte

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 16/09/2026

Goodbye to all that: an ‘authentic’ Ninth from the Mahler Academy Orchestra closes our coverage of this summer's BBC Proms ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-stein...

The Mahler Academy Orchestra
© BBC | Chris Christodoulou

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 15/09/2026

Tchaikovsky Noir: Mazeppa gets the gangster treatment at Oper Frankfurt ✍️ Hugo Shirley bachtrack.com/review-mazep...

Petr Sokolov (Mazeppa) and Nombulelo Yende (Mariya)
© Xiomara Bender

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 15/09/2026

Schmidt's monumental oratorio opens the NHKSO's new season with a bang ✍️ Nahoko Gotoh bachtrack.com/review-luisi...

Fabio Luisi conducts the NHK Symphony Orchestra
© NHKSO

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 14/09/2026

Trust the process: Edward Gardner on finding his element with the @lporchestra.bsky.social ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/interview-ed...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 14/09/2026

A misshapen pearl and a dead canary in Pinchgut Opera’s latest venture ✍️ Zoltán Szabó bachtrack.com/review-coffe...

Nicholas Jones in Le Caffé
© Cassandra Hannagan

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 14/09/2026

Punchy Mozart from Jeremy Denk and the RNS at the Lammermuir Festival ✍️ Simon Thompson bachtrack.com/review-mozar...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 14/09/2026

Inward song: María Dueñas and the Luxembourg Philharmonic play Brahms in Seoul ✍️ SangKwon Lee bachtrack.com/review-gimen...

María Dueñas, Gustavo Gimeno and the Luxembourg Philharmonic
© Vincero | Won Hee Lee

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 14/09/2026

9/11 remembered with tenderness and fury at Southwark Cathedral ✍️ Chris Garlick bachtrack.com/review-adams...

Outcry Ensemble and choirs in Southwark Cathedral
© Lucy Bending

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 14/09/2026

Alexander Shelley’s Mahler 2 rises to the occasion in Dublin ✍️ Andrew Larkin bachtrack.com/review-shell...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 14/09/2026

The Czech Philharmonic outdoes itself at Dvořák’s Prague ✍️ Frank Kuznik bachtrack.com/review-bychk...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 14/09/2026

The McRae/Vassilev Project: a virtuosic display like no other ✍️ Deborah Weiss bachtrack.com/review-mcrae...

Steven McRae and Vasko Vassilev in The McRae/Vassilev Project
© RBO | Max Miechowski

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 11/09/2026

Playing with fire, fiddling with headsets. an Immersive odyssey with Yuja Wang @southbankcentre.bsky.social ✍️ Eleanor Knight bachtrack.com/review-yuja-...

Playing with Fire installation
© Clément Deneux

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 11/09/2026

Don Giovanni spins round again to open The Royal Opera’s season ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-don-g...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 10/09/2026

Succession as opera seria: Mitridate opens Opera Philadelphia season ✍️ Cameron Kelsall bachtrack.com/review-mitri...

Brenda Rae (Aspasia) and Lawrence Brownlee (Mitridate)
© Dominic Mercier

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 09/09/2026

Generation upon generation: Paul Agnew on the mission of Les Arts Florissants New interview! ✍️ Elodie Olson-Coons bachtrack.com/interview-pa...

Young singers of Les Arts Florissants
© Julien Gazeau

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 09/09/2026

At Dvořák’s Prague, unexpected pleasures from the Tonhalle Zürich ✍️ Frank Kuznik bachtrack.com/review-jarvi...

Paavo Järvi conducts the Tonhalle-Orchester Züirch
© Petra Hajská

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 09/09/2026

Prokofiev thrills from Tugan Sokhiev and the Vienna Philharmonic in Hamburg @elbphilharmonie.de ✍️ Mengguang Huang bachtrack.com/review-sokhi...

Tugan Sokhiev and Hilary Hahn
© Sören L. Schirmer

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 09/09/2026

“The sheer musicality of each and every musician on stage was staggering”: Augustin Hadelich joins the Pittsburgh Symphony at the Concertgebouw ✍️ Clare Varney bachtrack.com/review-honec...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 08/09/2026

Obituary: Sir Richard Alston CBE bachtrack.com/news-sir-ric...

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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 08/09/2026

Autumnal colours in Rattle’s all-Schumann Prom with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-rattl...

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