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The Royal Opera

Eight new productions will span three centuries, including the newest of the new in

February with Festen, a world premiere for Mark-Anthony Turnage with a libretto
by Billy Elliot’s Lee Hall and direction from Richard Jones; Allan Clayton and Gerald
Finley star. Bernstein’s two major operatic works will be staged at Covent Garden for

the first time: Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place are directed by Oliver Mears and
will be at the Linbury Theatre through October. Elsewhere, Barrie Kosky continues

his Ring cycle with Die Walküre in May, Sir Antonio Pappano conducting a cast
including Christopher Maltman, Elisabet Strid, Lise Davidsen and Stanislas de

Barbeyrac.

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Vasily Petrenko enters his fourth season as Music Director and conducts the major
Lights in the Dark series at London’s Royal Festival Hall, with music of resistance

and hope written amid conflict; Dorothy Howell’s Lamia and Weill’s Four Whitman
Songs feature alongside Shostakovich and Beethoven. As Associate Orchestra of

the Royal Albert Hall, the RPO will team up with young pianist Yunchan Lim and
violinist Maxim Vengerov in May, and solo violinists Esther Yoo and Johan Dalene

will be joining them at Cadogan Hall.

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Music Director Thomas Søndergård leads Mahler’s Second Symphony in October,
before Isabelle Faust joins them for a Nordic Music Days programme of Errollyn

Wallen, Rune Glerup, Bent Sørensen, Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir, Aileen Sweeney and
Sibelius in November. Video-game franchise Final Fantasy will be in concert that

same month. Elsewhere, 2025 will see the Scottish premiere of Anna
Clyne’s Dance for cello and orchestra, plus music by Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson

performed by the RSNO Chamber Ensemble, presented by Kellen Gray.

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