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Best concerts and opera in March

By Claudia Pritchard on 25/2/2023

Operas set around the world, and three great symphonies

Pianist Fiachra Garvey and musical friends open Classical Vauxhall. Photo: Alan Place

Classical Vauxhall 2023

Comfort in Chaos, Songs of the Seasons, Elemental and The Sound of Film: Jazz in Hollywood are the themes of four very attractive concerts in this year's lively Classical Vauxhall. The long weekend music festival, based at the beautiful St Mark's Church, Kennington, is in its fourth year, and has carved out a reputation for its freshness, warmth and innovative programming.

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02 Mar 2023 – 05 Mar 2023, Four concerts, three at 8PM, one at 1PM, at St Mark's Church, Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4PP
WHERE
St Mark's Church, Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4PP
English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire

English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire

Having opened on 25 February with Handel's Giulio Cesare, Britain's busiest touring opera company returns with two spectacles: Donizetti's drama of vendetta and revenge, Lucrezia Borgia (Fri 3 March), and Verdi's comic Il Viaggio a Reims (Sat 4 March), set in a spa town where fashionable society is turned upside down by travelling players.

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WHEN
Fri 3 March 2023, 7:30PM; Sat 4 March 2023, 7:30PM
WHERE
Hackney Empire, 291 Mare Street, London E8 1EJ
The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse

The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse

Life inside a wolf's tummy turns out to be spacious and companionable, as mouse discovers when he is swallowed up and meets an earlier dinner, a duck. Aurora Orchestra perform Martin Suckling's delightful musical version of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen's children's book. Four- to eight-year-olds get to know the instruments of the orchestra with the help of these new animal friends.

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WHEN
Sat 4 March 2023, 10.15AM and 12PM. Running time 50min
WHERE
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
Tell Me the Truth About Love, Wigmore Hall, Roderick Williams

Tell Me the Truth About Love, Wigmore Hall, Roderick Williams

The recital takes its name from the witty cabaret song by Benjamin Britten which closes the programme devoted to love. Songs from that outstanding communicator, baritone Roderick Williams, include settings by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and Sally Beamish, with, in the first half, Robert Schumann's song cycle Dichterliebe, which traces the highs and lows of passion.

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WHEN
Tues 7 March 2023, 7:30PM
WHERE
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Turandot, Royal Opera House

Turandot, Royal Opera House

The great tenor aria 'Nessun dorma' is known way beyond the walls of the opera house, and here is a chance to hear that anthem in its original place. In Puccini's opera Turandot, suitor Calaf defies a tyrannical princess and wins her heart by putting his life in her hands. The action takes place in China, vividly suggested on stage in Andrei Serban's production, conducted at most performances by that master of Italian opera, Sir Antonio Pappano.

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WHEN
Fri 10 March 2023 to Thurs 13 March 2023. 12 performances, start times vary. Running time c3hr including one interval
WHERE
Royal opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD
Akhnaten at ENO stars Anthony Roth Costanzo. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith

Akhnaten, English National Opera

The captivating voice of the American counter-tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo has become synonymous with Philip Glass's opera Akhnaten. Already a favourite with English National Opera audiences, it makes a welcome return, and is sure to pick up new fans. The singer portrays the Egyptian pharaoh with otherworldly skill in an opera where ancient languages come to life.

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WHEN
11 Mar 2023 – 05 Apr 2023, Nine performances, start times vary. Running time c3hr, including two intervals
WHERE
English National Opera
London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Wigmore Hall

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Wigmore Hall

The brilliant young cellist is as at home in new and rarely performed music as in established pieces. In this recital, he plays music by JS Bach and Benjamin Britten, and also by the rising composers of today: Gwilym Simcock and Edmund Finnis. Plus, works by 20th-century masters: the Spanish composer Gaspar Cassadó and Leo Brouwer of Cuba.

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WHEN
Wed 15 March 2023, 7:30PM
WHERE
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5, London Philharmonic Orchestra

What is it about fifth symphonies? There are three in a row this month, every one a banger. To start, Tchaikovsky's passionate and dramatic four movements from 1888, with Karina Canellakis (pictured) conducting the LPO. It will be edge-of-the-seat stuff. To open, Beethoven, and then the exciting Russian soloist Daniil Trifonov in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3.

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WHEN
Wed 15 March 2023, 7:30PM
WHERE
Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
Tears and Laughter, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Tears and Laughter, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Another great Symphony No 5. This time it's by Dmitri Shostakovich, whose work is both layered and of instant appeal, with vivid orchestration. In the first half, two premieres. The impassioned Nova by Kyiv-born Victoria Vita Polevá is given its UK premiere, with cello soloist Kristina Blaumane. Then, for light relief in serious times, the world premiere of Russian-born Elena Langer's (pictured) humorous setting of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Dong With the Luminous Nose. That's a great evening of music

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WHEN
Sat 18 March 2023, 7:30PM
WHERE
Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
Beethoven 5, Aurora Orchestra

Beethoven 5, Aurora Orchestra

The final great Symphony No 5 this month. It's Beethoven's turn with a transformative piece, here played from memory by Aurora Orchestra, giving new immediacy to familiar phrases. At Printworks, the orchestra is 'exploded' across the old newspaper printing halls, and the four movements are interspersed with new music by Nwando Ebizie (pictured). It's cutting edge stuff, grown out of a repertoire favourite. We love this.

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WHEN
Sat 23 March 2023. Two performances: 6PM-8PM; 9PM-11PM
WHERE
Printworks, Surrey Quays Road, London SE16 7PJ
Manchester Collective, Kings Place

Manchester Collective, Kings Place

This exciting ensemble of musical shapeshifters presents new music and rethinks classics with the help of the the all-around Soundscape sound system, in Kings Place’s Sound Unwrapped season. There is music by Schubert and the American George Crumb and others, plus the world premiere of a new work by Philadelphian poet, composer and activist Moor Mother (Carmae Ayewa). This is live music as you have never heard it before.

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WHEN
Fri 24 March 2023, 8PM
WHERE
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
The Dead City, English National Opera

The Dead City, English National Opera

Paul is haunted by visions of his deceased wife, Marie, but then meets her double, Marietta. Composer Eric Korngold is best known for his film music, so expect drama and suspense as Paul picks his way through this mystery. Swiss tenor Rolf Romai plays Paul, with soprano Allison Oakes (pictured) singing as Marie/Marietta, and Sarah Connolly as the housekeeper in this promising new production by ENO artistic director Annilese Miskimmon, conducted by Kirill Karabits.

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WHEN
Sat 25 March to Sat 8 April. Six performances, start times vary. Running time 2hr 40min
WHERE
English National Opera
London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London, WC2N 4ES
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