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Best Concerts and Opera in November

By Claudia Pritchard on 13/10/2021

A new work by Isobel Waller-Bridge, London's newest orchestra plays Mozart, comedy with Cal McCrystal, and masterpieces for the stage by Verdi, Wagner

La Traviata, Royal Opera House

La Traviata, Royal Opera House

It's party time when the curtain rises on Verdi's opera about a society hostess who finds true love and a simple life with Alfredo. But tragedy awaits Violetta, who sacrifices her own happiness to secure another woman's future. Richard Eyre's timeless production returns to Covent Garden with a succession of sopranos as Violetta, among them Lisette Oropesa.

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WHEN
Wed 27 Oct to Sun 31 Oct; Tues 2 Nov to Wed 17 Nov; Sat 2 April to Mon 18 April 2022
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
HMS Pinafore, English National Opera

HMS Pinafore, English National Opera

Gilbert and Sullivan poke fun at privilege and at the under-talented and over-promoted in their timeless comic opera set at sea. Captain Corcoran commands the Pinafore, where a deckhand falls in love with his daughter. He is not worthy of her, by birth. Or is he...? Cal McCrystal returns to his mission to make ENO audiences laugh themselves silly, with help from the hilarious John Savournin (pictured) as Corcoran.

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WHEN
Fri 29 Oct to Sat 11 Dec, times vary
WHERE
English National Opera
London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES
Half Six Fix, London Symphony Orchestra

Half Six Fix, London Symphony Orchestra

Shorter concerts with no interval have become popular with audiences, and the LSO's early evening series continues to delight and illuminate. This time, Francis-Xavier Roth unwraps Beethoven's surging and mould-breaking Symphony No 3, the Eroica. A great introduction for youngsters to live classical music or welcome change of key after the working day.

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WHEN
Wed 10 Nov, 6:30PM to 7:30PM
WHERE
Barbican Hall, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS
Landscapes and Love Songs, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Landscapes and Love Songs, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Under its new principal conductor, Edward Gardner (pictured), the LPO opens with Grieg's charming Lyric Suite arranged for orchestra and is joined by soloist Jan Lisiecki in Schumann's lilting, romantic and occasionally theatrical Piano Concerto. After an interval, Sibelius's mighty Symphony No 2 in D, inspired by a stay in Italy.

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WHEN
Wed 10 Nov, 7:30PM
WHERE
Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX
Macbeth, Royal Opera House

Macbeth, Royal Opera House

Baritone Simon Keenlyside (pictured) reprises the title role in Verdi's powerful opera based on Shakespeare's tragedy. Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi sings the manipulative Lady Macbeth, in Phyllida Lloyd's sinister production.

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WHEN
Tues 16 Nov to Tues 30 Nov
WHERE
Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
András Schiff: A Feast of Mozart

András Schiff: A Feast of Mozart

Compare two Mozart piano concertos, written at the beginning and the end of the composer's 20s, when soloist András Schiff (pictured) plays No 9 and No 20 in a concert with the Philharmonia Orchestra, which he also directs from the keyboard. The evening opens with the dramatic overture to Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, and ends with the Symphony No 36, named the Linz, after the Austrian city for which it was composed at virtuosic speed.

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WHEN
Thurs 18 Nov, 7:30PM
WHERE
Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX
Mozart's Gran Partita, Figure

Mozart's Gran Partita, Figure

London's newest orchestra, Figure (pictured), gives its second performance at its adopted home, the church of St Bartholomew the Great, near Smithfield. The outstanding oboist Leo Duarte is among the 13 wind players drawn from Figure in Mozart's astonishingly inventive Serenade No 10 for Winds, known as the Gran Partita, for a historically informed performance true to the piece's roots.

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WHEN
Fri 19 Nov, 7:30PM to 8:30PM
WHERE
St Bartholomew-the-Great, Cloth Fair, Barbican EC1A 7JQ
The Valkyrie, English National Opera

The Valkyrie, English National Opera

'If you like epic sagas such as The Avengers, Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings.... you’ll love The Valkyrie.' So says English National Opera, which embarks on a five-year collaboration with the Met in New York to stage the whole of Wagner's Ring cycle, starting with this colossal clash of wills. Listen out for the brassy Ride of the Valkyrie, among the best loved and most dramatic music in the repertoire.

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WHEN
19 Nov to 4 Dec, eight performances. Running time 5 hrs; start times vary
WHERE
English National Opera
London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES
Angela Hewitt, Wigmore Hall

Angela Hewitt, Wigmore Hall

In the salon atmosphere of Wigmore Hall, pianist Angela Hewitt plays music by three contrasting composers. Contrast two of Mozart's sparkling sonatas with the passion of Chopin's Nocturnes and a breakneck scherzo, and atmospheric pictures in music of Messiaen.

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WHEN
Tues 23 Nov, 7:30PM
WHERE
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP
Four Seasons and Four Seascapes, Philharmonia

Four Seasons and Four Seascapes, Philharmonia

Catch the world premiere of a new work, Temperatures, by Isobel Waller-Bridge, who composed the music for her sister Phoebe's Fleabag. The concert continues with Benjamin Britten's Four Sea Interludes, stirring instrumentals from his opera Peter Grimes, and Vivaldi's unmatchable canter through the times of year, his Four Seasons. An evening of aural colour and improvisation inspired by the natural world, from the Philharmonia under violinist Pekka Kuusisto (pictured).

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WHEN
Sun 28 Nov, 7:30PM
WHERE
Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX

Isobel Waller-Bridge

Royal Opera House

English National Opera

Figure

Mozart

Verdi

Wagner

Cal McCrystal

Gilbert and Sullivan

Philharmonia

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