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Ariadne auf Naxos, which opens this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival, pits highbrow opera against lowbrow commedia dell’arte, with powerful vocal performances and a strangely monochromatic design. ....
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2021-04-09T14:00:00+01:00 Highlights include a residency from Sir Mark Elder, the return of the ‘Bach the European’ series and a performance of Dido and Aeneas The Royal Academy of Music is to stream 25 free performances live on YouTube in the first half of the summer term (April and May). Events launch with the Academy Symphony Orchestra performing the overture to Mozart’s Don Giovanni, conducted by Sir Mark Elder, alongside music by Haydn and CPE Bach (13 April, 1pm). Elder’s residency ends later that week with a contrasting programme of Stravinsky, Arensky and Elgar (16 April, 1pm). The ‘Bach the European’ series resumes with three Sunday concerts, each broadcast on Sundays from 12 noon and directed by Eamonn Dougan (18 April), Rachel Podger (25 April) and John Butt (9 May). The concerts examine Bach around the themes of arrangement, music for dukes and kings, and pieces by fellow Northern European composers. ....