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Bachtrack Site News - June 2012

The site's jam-packed with opera at the moment, but there's more going on as well. Take a look at a few of our picks from the last month.

Feature: New Opera Seasons

We've trawled through opera company programmes to find you the most exciting events. Dick and Joe aren't the only composers, although they will be celebrated...
bachtrack.com/new-opera-seasons-2012-2013

Feature: London Fringe Opera

It's not just the big opera houses that are branching out either. Smaller-scale opera is booming, especially in London, and we've spoken to a number of the key players in this area. Something for everyone, from Wagnerites to Britney fans.
bachtrack.com/london-fringe-opera

Review: BBC Young Musician 2012

Bachtrack had something of a scoop a few weeks back, with what still appears to be the only review available online of the BBC's Young Musician 2012 final. Take a look at Jane Shuttleworth's review from Sage Gateshead here.
bachtrack.com/review-bbc-young-musician-final-2012

Concert Reviews

In other reviews news: a 50-year anniversary performance of Britten's War Requiem in Coventry Cathedral; an intriguing but problematic John Adams première in Los Angeles; and a spectacular Ravel performance from man of the moment Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Rotterdam.
bachtrack.com/review-britten-war-requiem-coventry-cathedral-cbso
bachtrack.com/review-la-disney-hall-adams-gospel-other-mary
bachtrack.com/review-de-doelen-rotterdam-phil-seguin-ravel-enfant-sortileges

Opera Reviews

It's been yet another fascinating month for opera, but it's been 20th- and 21st-century works which have shone the most. We caught Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's landmark work Einstein on the Beach (still touring) in London, a spectacular Wozzeck production from Andreas Kriegenburg in Munich, and a powerful performance of Nico Muhly's Dark Sisters in Philadelphia.
bachtrack.com/review-einstein-on-the-beach-barbican
bachtrack.com/review-bayerische-staatsoper-kriegenburg-wozzeck
bachtrack.com/review-opera-phila-muhly-dark-sisters

Dance Reviews

Heavenly: Dutch dance company Introdans made a sensational New York debut, while in London the talk is all about Pina Bausch.
bachtrack.com/review-introdans-joyce-theater-new-york
bachtrack.com/review-tanztheater-wuppertal-pina-bausch-sadlers-wells

Opera Festivals

It may be a vile, wet summer but we're British and not to be put off. Great music in fabulous settings. Why not give it a go at Grange Park, Holland Park, Garsington or Glyndebourne?
bachtrack.com/find-a-festival/all/all/opera

Keep Up with us Online

For more regular updates, don't forget to connect with us online: we're at facebook.com/bachtrackpage and on Twitter @bachtrack.

Happy concert-going!

David and Alison Karlin

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