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| Tuesday 28-May-13 07:30pm |
 Birmingham Symphony HallA Boy Was Born: Nelsons conducts Britten's War Requiem |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Tuesday 28-May-13 07:30pm A Boy Was Born: Nelsons conducts Britten's War Requiem “My subject is War, and the pity of War.” Benjamin Britten composed his War Requiem for the new Coventry Cathedral, but it’s become one of the defining achievements of modern music, a timeless and profoundly moving exploration of man’s inhumanity to man. The CBSO gave its world premiere: this music is in their blood, and every performance is special to them. Be there as Andris Nelsons and an international team of soloists bring this deeply personal masterpiece to Symphony Hall before taking the work on tour. (£10-£55) | ||
| Monday 3-Jun-13 01:00pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall Lunchtime Organ Concert: Thomas Trotter with Celia Craig |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Monday 3-Jun-13 01:00pm Lunchtime Organ Concert: Thomas Trotter with Celia Craig In a special international partnership, Thomas performs with Celia Craig, Principal Oboe of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The programme will include works for organ and oboe by Rheinberger, Britten, Noyon and Marcello. Tickets £6 (unreserved seating) £5 concessions | ||
| Friday 14-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall 2001: A Space Odyssey live screening in Birmingham |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Friday 14-Jun-13 07:30pm 2001: A Space Odyssey live screening in Birmingham | ||
| Saturday 15-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall Holst's The Planets |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Saturday 15-Jun-13 07:30pm Holst's The Planets Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts two of the greatest classics of English music. Holst’s The Planets is a marvellously evocative depiction of astrological influences, whilst Elgar’s Violin Concerto contains some of the composer’s most intimate and personal music, shot through with nostalgia for a passing Edwardian age. | ||
| Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall Flowers and Fables |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Thursday 20-Jun-13 07:30pm Flowers and Fables Sibelius took the classical symphony and charged it with the freshness and energy of nature itself. Lutoslawski, meanwhile, launched brilliant musical fireworks into the grey skies of postwar Poland. Edward Gardner loves them both, and he begins and ends this concert with two of the twentieth century’s most original – and inspiring – symphonies. In between, something magical happens, as soprano Lucy Crowe re-tells Sibelius’s primal northern myth - and proves that Lutoslawski’s enchanted nursery rhymes aren’t just for children. (£10-£42) | ||
| Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall Friday Night Classics: Ol' Blue Eyes |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Friday 21-Jun-13 07:30pm Friday Night Classics: Ol' Blue Eyes Including: Let’s Face the Music and Dance • New York, New York • Old Man River • You Make Me Feel So Young • Come Fly With Me • Luck Be A Lady • My Kind Of Town • I Get A Kick Out Of You • I’ve Got You Under My Skin • Nice ‘n’ Easy • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Well ring-a-ding-ding - Ol’ Blue Eyes is back! Vocalist Gary Williams has been hailed as the closest thing today to hearing Sinatra himself - and in this spectacular tribute using Sinatra’s original, unmistakable orchestral arrangements, he’ll sound like a million bucks. You Make Me Feel So Young, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, New York, New York, Luck Be A Lady, My Kind Of Town, Nice ‘n’ Easy…it’s just classic after swinging classic. Come fly with the CBSO! (£12.50-£40) | ||
| Saturday 22-Jun-13 04:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall Wagner's Ring: Siegfried |
Opera North Annalena Persson, Soprano: Brünnhilde Mati Turi, Tenor: Siegfried Richard Roberts, Tenor: Mime Michael Druiett, Bass-baritone: Wanderer Richard Farnes, Conductor |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Saturday 22-Jun-13 04:30pm Wagner's Ring: Siegfried Opera North’s production of Wagner’s Ring combines both visual impact and great singing and playing. In the words of The Times on Das Rheingold, ‘Farnes has done many fine things at Opera North, but his pacing of this 150-minute sweep of music, his care about balance… and the sumptuousness of the orchestral textures – all this constitutes a massive achievement.’ In the penultimate part of this great tragedy of love and power, the hero Siegfried awakens the warrior maiden Brünnhilde, lying in a deep sleep surrounded by a magic fire, and makes her his wife. Opera North Annalena Persson, Soprano: Brünnhilde Mati Turi, Tenor: Siegfried Richard Roberts, Tenor: Mime Michael Druiett, Bass-baritone: Wanderer Richard Farnes, Conductor | ||
| Thursday 27-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 8 & 9 |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Thursday 27-Jun-13 07:30pm The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 8 & 9 It’s been an incredible journey, and on this night Andris Nelsons, the CBSO and our world-class Chorus arrive at Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: the summit of any Beethoven cycle - and some say, the whole of classical music. But there’s a world of experience to live through before the CBSO get to that final, transcendent Ode To Joy, and Beethoven’s explosive little Eighth Symphony launches a concert that’s sure to be one of the most talked-about events in Birmingham this year. (£10-£55) | ||
| Saturday 29-Jun-13 07:00pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 8 & 9 |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Saturday 29-Jun-13 07:00pm The Birmingham Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 8 & 9 It’s been an incredible journey, and on this night Andris Nelsons, the CBSO and our world-class Chorus arrive at Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: the summit of any Beethoven cycle - and some say, the whole of classical music. But there’s a world of experience to live through before the CBSO get to that final, transcendent Ode To Joy, and Beethoven’s explosive little Eighth Symphony launches a concert that’s sure to be one of the most talked-about events in Birmingham this year. (£10-£55) | ||
| Sunday 7-Jul-13 06:00pm |
Birmingham Symphony Hall The Royal Opera: Verdi's Simon Boccanegra |
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor Thomas Hampson, Baritone: Simon Boccanegra Hibla Gerzmava, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) |
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| Birmingham Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham B1, United Kingdom Sunday 7-Jul-13 06:00pm The Royal Opera: Verdi's Simon Boccanegra The Royal Opera returns to Symphony Hall to celebrate the 2013 bicentenary of Verdi’s birth in one of the highlights of the season. For this visit, music director Sir Antonio Pappano has chosen Verdi’s dark lyrical drama, Simon Boccanegra. Set in 14th-century Genoa, this great work is a brooding tragedy and a psychological study of power, treachery and the unbreakable bond between a father and his daughter. Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor Thomas Hampson, Baritone: Simon Boccanegra Hibla Gerzmava, Soprano: Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) | ||
