Sibafest, the flagship event of the University of the Arts Helsinki s Sibelius Academy, is set to take over the Music Centre in Helsinki on January 26-27, 2024. This festival marks the beginning of a year packed with nearly a thousand concerts, offering a unique experience that goes beyond traditional performances. Sibafest invites the public to explore the behind-the-scenes world of music education, encompassing rehearsals, workshops, and backstage tours.
It’s the Edinburgh International Festival, and Barrie’s back in town. Once, Edinburgh was pretty much the only place that you could see Barrie Kosky directing in the UK; there was a satisfyingly transgressive thrill about an opera director whose priorities were so self-evidently about the whole art form that he’d happily stage Monteverdi as a