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Classical Music

Best Concerts and Opera in November

By Claudia Pritchard on 21/10/2022

An opera based on a timeless movie, a chance for audiences to take charge, and musical answers to winter

Tosca resists predatory Scarpia in Puccini's opera. Photo: Genevieve Girling

Tosca, English National Opera

Last chance to catch this spectacular production of Puccini's most dramatic opera, with Sinéad Campbell-Wallace in the title role. When an opera singer and an artist are tormented by a vicious chief of police, their love and loyalty to friends are tested to destruction.

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WHEN
Sat 22 Oct to Thurs 4 Nov 2022. Five performances, start times vary
WHERE
English National Opera
London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES
The Moonhares, Queen Elizabeth Hall

The Moonhares, Queen Elizabeth Hall

An enchanting family opera with new music by James Redwood and extracts from a Henry Purcell opera first produced 400 years ago. When it is discovered that the children of a mysterious village have never been allowed to see the moon, for fear that they turn into hares at daybreak, an enlightened new teacher resolves to let them experience the magic of the night. With the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, soloists and community performers.

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WHEN
Wed 2 Nov, 7PM
WHERE
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
The Yeomen of the Guard nurse the Crown Jewels – and broken hearts. Photo: Historic Royal Palaces

The Yeomen of the Guard, English National Opera

English National Opera has had a string of hits with new productions of often comic and sometimes tender masterpieces by those eminent Victorians, composer Arthur Sullivan and his wry librettist WS Gilbert. With the country in disarray, The Yeomen of the Guard, is a timely satire on order and disorder...

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WHEN
03 Nov 2022 – 02 Dec 2022, 10 evening performances; 4 matinees. Start times vary. Running time c2hr 40min
WHERE
English National Opera
London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Barbican

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Barbican

Visit from Amsterdam of one of the greatest orchestras in the world, to play two great works: the Brahms Violin Concerto and Beethoven's Symphony No 6, the Pastoral. Leonidas Kavakos (pictured) is the soloist and Daniel Harding conducts a programme that would appeal to the household's younger music-lovers too.

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WHEN
Fri 4 Nov 2022, 7:30PM
WHERE
Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS
Wimbledon Music Festival

Wimbledon Music Festival

Year after year this remarkable festival attracts top artists to smaller venues where appreciate audiences can interact closely with the performances. Highlights this year include a Brodsky Quartet 50th anniversary concert featuring Haydn, Shostakovich and Schubert, a lieder recital by captivating tenor Benjamin Appl, Bizet's opera Carmen, the Philharmonia Orchestra playing Elgar, Dvorak and others, and the powerful Brahms Requiem with soloists including Roderick Williams (pictured).

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WHEN
Sat 5 Nov to Tues 29 Nov 2022: 22 events, start times vary
WHERE
Wimbledon churches
Lisette Oropesa sings the title role in Handel's Alcina. Photo: Steven Harris

Alcina, Royal Opera House

One of the most looked-forward to events of the Covent Garden musical year. The sorceress Alcina lures lovers, who perish under her spell. But when Ruggiero becomes her latest victim, she reckons without his fiancee Bradamante, who dons a disguise and follows him. Has Alcina – stupendous soprano Lisette Oropesa (pictured) – finally met her match, and will her powers wane?

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WHEN
08 Nov 2022 – 26 Nov 2022. Six performances, start times vary. Running time about 4hr, with one interval
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
Wild and Stormy Nights, London Symphony Orchestra

Wild and Stormy Nights, London Symphony Orchestra

With winter on the way, fight back with the help of the LSO under Nathalie Stutzmann and thrilling young soloist Alice Sara Ott (pictured). Brahms confronts the future with his fourth and final symphony, wresting beauty from a lifetime of sorrow, Beethoven broods in his moody Piano Concerto No 3 and César Franck undertakes a terrifying journey in Le chasseur maudit.

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WHEN
Thurs 10 Nov 2022, 7PM
WHERE
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
Virtually Opera needs the audience's help in Come Bargain With Uncanny Things. Photo: Claire Shovelton

Come Bargain With Uncanny Things, Virtually Opera

Pit your wits against forces beyond our control in an immersive opera where the audience are also the creatives. Come Bargain With Uncanny Things invites the audience to solve problems on the night, using everything means natural and supernatural, and with the help of 'bargainers' – singers improvising a new score every night.

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WHEN
15 Nov 2022 – 27 Nov 2022, Eight performances, start times vary
WHERE
COLAB Tavern, King William IV, 16 Harper Road, London SE1 6AD
It's a Wonderful Life, English National Opera

It's a Wonderful Life, English National Opera

Growing up with one of the great Christmas viewing traditions in America, US composer Jake Heggie spotted the operatic potential of the sentimental 1946 movie It's a Wonderful Life. His opera, also called It's a Wonderful Life and given its UK premiere by English National Opera, stars soprano Danielle de Niese (pictured), and promises to be a highlight of the opera year.

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WHEN
25 Nov 2022 – 10 Dec 2022, 10 performances: six evenings, four matinees. Start times vary. Running time c2hr 10min including an interval
WHERE
English National Opera
London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES
A Child of Our Time, London Philharmonic Orchestra

A Child of Our Time, London Philharmonic Orchestra

‘The world turns on its dark side. It is winter.’ After the despairing opening words of Sir Michael Tippett’s oratorio, written at the start of the Second World War, music comes to the rescue of mankind in the form of melodies borrowed from African American spirituals. The London Adventist Chorale and soloists, including Sarah Connolly, Roderick Williams and Nadine Benjamin (pictured) join the LPO under Edward Gardner. To open, Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music.

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WHERE
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
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