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Aldeburgh festival
Judith Weir and Unsuk Chin are the featured composers at Aldeburgh this summer. The festival
opens with a new staging of Weir’s opera Blond Eckbert. and also includes the first performance of
her Second String Quartet. There are the UK premieres of two works by Chin, while cellist Alban
Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne recreate the historic recital given in 1961 by Mstislav
Rostropovich and Benjamin Britten.
7-23 June, various venues, Suffolk
Wagner’s Ring
Wagner has been the raison d’être of Longborough festival since it began in 1991, and though it
spreads its operatic net much wider now, those operas, and The Ring especially, remain at its core.
This year it presents its second complete staging of the tetralogy, directed by Amy Lane; as before
the conductor of the three cycles is Anthony Negus, with Paul Carey Jones as Wotan, Lee Bisset as
Brünnhilde and Bradley Daley as Siegfried.
16 June-9 July, Longborough, Moreton-in-Marsh
