Best Classical and Opera nights in November
Thrill to Tchaikovsky, be amazed by Beethoven, or follow a woman with a secret at English National Opera
Beethoven's Eroica, Royal Festival Hall
Revolutionary zeal was coursing through Beethoven when he wrote his Third Symphony in 1804, which he proudly dedicated to Napoleon. But before a note could be played he heard his hero had declared himself Emperor, the furious composer tore out the symphony's title page
Read more ...Marnie, English National Opera
Winston Graham's novel Marnie inspired the 1964 film of the same name, directed by Alfred Hitchcock – for whom a single woman dodging the law was an ideal subject. Now Marnie's story is told in a nailbiting opera, the work of Nico Muhly, the brilliant young American composer
Read more ...Rossini's Semiramide, Royal Opera House
Opera, like theatre, has a long tradition of characters who do not recognise their own children, and in his masterpiece Semiramide, Rossini makes full dramatic use of this device. Starring Joyce DiDonato at some performances as a tyrannical queen who chooses as heir a stranger. Or is he?
Read more ...Tchaikovsky's Winter Daydreams, Royal Festival Hall
The Italian-born pianist Beatrice Rana has become the hottest property in classical music with prize after prize, and now the Gramophone award 2017 for best young artist, and you can catch this amazing talent when she joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra for an all-Russian programme
Read more ...An Autumn Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
Poetic, romantic and impressionistic symphonic, the Autumn Symphony by Joseph Marx was first performed to a surprised audience in 1922, and has everything that a modern listener expects from a big orchestral work. Catch this first ever London – and UK – performance
Read more ...Mahler's Ninth Symphony, Royal Festival Hall
Mahler’s last great statement, his profound Symphony No 9, is unpacked when the great Finnish-born conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra promise to bring this epic to dazzling life. A good-natured waltz warps into burlesque and on through a dazzling range of sensations
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