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Classical music news. Rossini Opera Festival 2025 — Details of next summer's festival, based at Pesaro in Italy, were announced in December, including two new productions and three cantatas
Twenty-five years ago today
Site Seeing — Music website news, including streaming BBC Radio Three, Classical beginnings, The Belgrade Cultural Centre Music Programme, The Australian Voices, Flynn's Trinity, Wingroove, Egroups and an opera jamboree. (published 14 December 1999)
Twenty years ago today
Ensemble. Mozart and lederhosen — A Bavarian Magic Flute, reviewed by Tess Crebbin (published 14 December 2004)
Anniversaries
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1788); Rosalyn Tureck (1914); Ruth Railton (1915); Alban Berg: Wozzeck (1925); Fartein Valen (1952); Jocelyn Morlock (1969); Irene Dalis (2014); Karel Husa (2016)
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Derived from a 2011 photograph of Il Duomo di Pesaro
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