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2013
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June
- OBE for Alan Opie in Queen’s Birthday Honours List
- William Kerley returns to Opera Philadelphia for new Adès production
- The Cardinall's Musick: BBC Radio 3 "Building a Library" winner
- Major new Birtwistle song-cycle premieres in Aldeburgh
- Julia Sporsén: "vivid" debut as Nedda in Opera Holland Park’s Pagliacci
- Triumphant second festival for Laurence Cummings in Göttingen
- Andrew Parrott's Orfeo "most beguiling Monteverdi opera recording for years"
- New artist: Pianist Louis Lortie
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May
- Rayfield Allied artists feature strongly as ENO's new season announced
- Ensemble 360 win at the RPS Awards
- Peter Bronder debut as Rienzi in Frankfurt
- Julia Jones makes “welcome return” to the Royal Opera House
- May Festival 2013 begins for Ensemble 360
- New York Times praises Jessica Walker’s bewitching performance
- Philipp von Steinaecker steps in for Abbado to conduct Orchestra Mozart
- Kate Valentine's "deliciously ardent" debut as Mimì
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April
- La Périchole for NYCO 'brilliantly' conducted by Emmanuel Plasson
- New Artist: Cellist Natalie Clein
- Hila Plitmann “outstanding” in Melbourne Thomas Adès celebration
- Rayfield Allied artists in BBC Proms 2013 Season
- Pierre-André Valade appointment with Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain
- New artist: Conductor Julia Jones
- Ensemble 360 to feature in BBC Radio 3 lunchtime concerts
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March
- Mhairi Lawson takes on Handel's Rival Queens
- Marcus Barcham-Stevens joins the Fitzwilliam String Quartet
- Oscar-winner Bruce Beresford set to direct Bonnie & Clyde miniseries:
- Countertenor Ainslie "excels" as Eliogabalo in New York
- New Artist: German conductor Philipp von Steinaecker
- Nicholas Mulroy and Matthew Brook star in Gramophone and BBC Music “Recordings of the Month"
- The orchestra of the Royal Opera House is conducted "very stylishly" by Emmanuel Plasson.
- "Excellent" Eddie Wade sings with "style and panache"
- Rayfield Allied announces new conductor: Mikhail Agrest
- Steve Reich world premiere in London
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February
- Pamela Helen Stephen and Phillip Rhodes an "ideal match" as Dido and Aeneas
- The Navarra String Quartet is awarded the very first ChamberStudio Mentorship
- Stunning reviews for The Cardinall's Musick's latest recording
- Ya-Fei Chuang triumphs at Boston piano recital
- David Sawer premiere by BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Grammy Awards: Winner for Best Opera Recording
- Birtwistle and Reich appear in major new BBC Four Series
- Conductor Geoffrey Paterson releases debut recording for Opera Rara
- January
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June
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2012
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- November
- October
- September
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July
- Eddie Wade makes Wagner debut: a Gunther “worthy of any international stage”
- Mahan Esfahani returns to the Proms with a Bach premiere
- “Fragrant and luxuriant”: The Prince Consort’s debut at Cheltenham Festival
- Katie Bray receives prestigious prize from Royal Academy of Music
- Alan Opie: a “world-class” Gianni Schicchi
- Steve Reich at Bloc Festival: “A towering titan of musical exploration"
- Mhairi Lawson's 'Venice by Night' is Classic fM “CD of the Week”
- June
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May
- “Unmissable”: Diana Moore’s tribute to Kathleen Ferrier
- Pride of place at Thames Pageant for David Parry and LPO
- Harrison Birtwistle: “his music is a vital, essential, life force which you need to hear"
- Exciting New Era at Göttingen International Handel Festival
- Outstanding reviews for the “mercurial fingers of Robert Levin at the fortepiano”
- Ensemble 360 live on BBC Radio 3 from the National Portrait Gallery
- New CD Release: David Parry conducts Il Pirata
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April
- English National Opera announce 2012/2013 Season
- 2012 BBC Proms season announced
- New Artist: soprano Hila Plitmann
- Mahan Esfahani completes triumphant US tour
- Recording featuring Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook and Annie Gill “a winner"
- Harrison Birtwistle wins 2012 BBC Music Magazine Award
- Pierre-André Valade is appointed Artistic Co-Director of Athelas Sinfonietta
- House debuts for Alexander Briger and Peter Sidhom at the Théâtre du Châtelet
- The Cardinall's Musick - Byrd Tour 2012 begins...
- March
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January
- The Fitzwilliam String Quartet celebrate Delius’ 150th Birthday
- ‘The unstoppable talent of Mahan Esfahani’: Early Music Today interview
- Outstanding reviews for Pamela Helen Stephen's Giulio Cesare
- Gustav Leonhardt (1928 - 2012)
- Two live recordings at Wigmore Hall: Christian Blackshaw and Antonio Meneses
- New Artist: tenor David Alegret
- Nicholas McGegan's latest CD nominated for Grammy
- 2011
- News Archive
Emmanuel Plasson: a Frenchman in New York
26 September 2011
Emmanuel Plasson’s intriguing Q&A session for Seen and Heard can be found at this link.
Plasson, a leading ambassador for French music, was the very first Winner of the Donatella Flick Competition in 1994, and enjoys a diverse international career conducting symphonic and operatic performances around the world. Upcoming highlights include engagements with Montreal Opera, Bergen Opera and the Orchestre Symphonique de Pau.
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