CONCERTS
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february 2023

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Performing with, Lucas Jussen, piano Arthur Jussen, piano Programme Mozart: Double Concerto for two pianos Sergei Prokofiev: Excerpts from the Suite "Romeo and Juliet" op. 64
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Performing with,
Lucas Jussen, piano
Arthur Jussen, piano
Programme
Mozart: Double Concerto for two pianos
Sergei Prokofiev: Excerpts from the Suite “Romeo and Juliet” op. 64
Time
(Saturday) 20:00
Location
Konigin Elisabethzaal / Queen Elizabeth Hall
Koningin Astridplein 26, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium

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Vasily Petrenko Conductor Javier Perianes Piano Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Programme Journeys of Discovery: Ecstasy Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) Ravel Piano Concerto in G Wagner Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy A programme that celebrates music as
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Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Javier Perianes Piano
Programme
Journeys of Discovery: Ecstasy
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Wagner Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod
Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy
A programme that celebrates music as the supreme language of longing and ecstasy.
These are works that operate at the edges of our experience: where fantasy meets myth, the soul escapes its earthly bounds, and where the passion of young love consumes all before it.
To capture such ecstatic states requires a special gift. Few composers can stretch a languorous melody over endlessly twisting chords like Wagner or Prokofiev, or suspend time like Ravel, or summon up a trippy universe like Scriabin.
Prokofiev and Wagner give new life to the tales of star-crossed lovers, whether Romeo and Juliet or Tristan and Isolde. Sriabin then takes Wagner’s theme of transfiguration to the point of full orchestral explosion in his Poem of Ecstasy. ‘Like a bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows’ was how Henry Miller described it.
Ravel offers a moment to step back from the emotional fray with his piano concerto, capturing the innocent excitement and wonder of a child. The simple allure of the music belies much sophistication. In the case of the slow movement, where time seems to stop, the exquisite balancing of parts brought the composer ‘to the edge of despair’. He persevered, and the result was perfection.
Time
(Wednesday) 19:30
Location
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 8XX

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Performing with, Cuarteto Quiroga Programme Ligeti Lontano Adams Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
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Performing with,
Cuarteto Quiroga
Programme
Ligeti Lontano
Adams Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Time
(Friday) 19:30
Location
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid

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Performing with, Cuarteto Quiroga Programme Ligeti Lontano Adams Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
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Performing with,
Cuarteto Quiroga
Programme
Ligeti Lontano
Adams Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Time
(Saturday) 19:30
Location
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid

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Performing with, Cuarteto Quiroga Programme Ligeti Lontano Adams Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
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Performing with,
Cuarteto Quiroga
Programme
Ligeti Lontano
Adams Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Time
(Sunday) 11:30
Location
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid

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Performing with, Heidi Melton soprano Programme Strauss Divertimento, Op.86 (1941) Strauss Four Last Songs Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
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Performing with,
Heidi Melton soprano
Programme
Strauss Divertimento, Op.86 (1941)
Strauss Four Last Songs
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Time
(Saturday) 19:00
Location
L'Auditori Barcelona
Carrer de Lepant, 150, 08013 Barcelona, Spain

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Performing with, Heidi Melton soprano Programme Strauss Divertimento, Op.86 (1941) Strauss Four Last Songs Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
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Performing with,
Heidi Melton soprano
Programme
Strauss Divertimento, Op.86 (1941)
Strauss Four Last Songs
Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Time
(Sunday) 11:00
Location
L'Auditori Barcelona
Carrer de Lepant, 150, 08013 Barcelona, Spain
march 2023

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Performing with, Alice Coote alto Programme Dvorák The Aquarius (except 5 March) Elgar Sea Pictures (except 5 March) Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau
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Performing with,
Alice Coote alto
Programme
Dvorák The Aquarius (except 5 March)
Elgar Sea Pictures (except 5 March)
Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau
Time
(Friday) 19:30
Location
Kulturpalast, Dresden
Schloßstraße 2, 01067 Dresden, Germany

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Performing with, Alice Coote alto Programme Dvorák The Aquarius (except 5 March) Elgar Sea Pictures (except 5 March) Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau
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Performing with,
Alice Coote alto
Programme
Dvorák The Aquarius (except 5 March)
Elgar Sea Pictures (except 5 March)
Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau
Time
(Saturday) 19:30
Location
Kulturpalast, Dresden
Schloßstraße 2, 01067 Dresden, Germany
05mar11:00Dresden, Germany - Dresdner Philharmonie - Zemlinsky11:00 Kulturpalast, Dresden

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Performing with, Sarah Willis | conception and moderation Programme Excerpts from: Alexander Zemlinsky "The Mermaid" Fantasy in three movements based on a fairy tale by Andersen
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Performing with,
Sarah Willis | conception and moderation
Programme
Excerpts from:
Alexander Zemlinsky
“The Mermaid” Fantasy in three movements based on a fairy tale by Andersen
Time
(Sunday) 11:00
Location
Kulturpalast, Dresden
Schloßstraße 2, 01067 Dresden, Germany

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Vasily Petrenko Conductor Elizabeth Watts Soprano Jennifer Johnston Mezzo-soprano Philharmonia Chorus Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Programme Journeys of Discovery: Discovery Mahler Symphony No.2, ‘Resurrection’ The thrill and sheer emotional impact of hearing this symphony live never diminishes: from the paroxysms
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Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Elizabeth Watts Soprano
Jennifer Johnston Mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Chorus
Programme
Journeys of Discovery: Discovery
Mahler Symphony No.2, ‘Resurrection’
The thrill and sheer emotional impact of hearing this symphony live never diminishes: from the paroxysms of death to the affirmation of the life hereafter.
Mahler’s ode to life may end in glory, but the route there is full of twists and turns. Burlesque folk tunes sit alongside funeral marches, gentle nocturnes alongside storms. In Mahler’s deft hands, what might otherwise be jarring juxtapositions become vital pieces of the overall jigsaw. His Second Symphony is a panorama of life, death and resurrection, the musical equivalent of a vast Michelangelo mural.
With the glorious choral finale, Mahler provides his own unique response to the challenge set by Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony: how to bring voices into the symphonic ideal. Having been through the twisting journey, we find ourselves, as Mahler wrote in his own programme notes, in a place where there is ‘no judgement… no punishment and no reward. Just an overwhelming love illuminates our being. We know, and are.’
This concert has been rescheduled from from Wed 3 March 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Time
(Thursday) 19:30
Location
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore, South Kensington, SW7 2AP
april 2023

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Performing with, Mané Galoyan soprano Fleur Barron mezzo -soprano Bekhzod Davronov tenor Johannes Weisser bass-baritone Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Large Broadcasting Choir Programme Wagner Overture Charfreitagszauber from Parsifal Bruckner Te Deum Pärt Te Deum
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Performing with,
Mané Galoyan soprano
Fleur Barron mezzo -soprano
Bekhzod Davronov tenor
Johannes Weisser bass-baritone
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Large Broadcasting Choir
Programme
Wagner Overture Charfreitagszauber from Parsifal
Bruckner Te Deum
Pärt Te Deum
Time
(Friday) 20:15
Location
TivoliVredenburg
Vredenburgkade 11, 3511 WC Utrecht, Netherlands

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Performing with, Mané Galoyan soprano Fleur Barron mezzo -soprano Bekhzod Davronov tenor Johannes Weisser bass-baritone Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Large Broadcasting Choir Programme Bruckner Te Deum Pärt Te Deum
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Performing with,
Mané Galoyan soprano
Fleur Barron mezzo -soprano
Bekhzod Davronov tenor
Johannes Weisser bass-baritone
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Large Broadcasting Choir
Programme
Bruckner Te Deum
Pärt Te Deum
Time
(Sunday) 11:00
Location
Het Concertgebouw

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Performing with, Bomsori Kim, violin Programme Sibelius Finlandia Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (highlights)
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Performing with,
Bomsori Kim, violin
Programme
Sibelius Finlandia
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (highlights)
Time
(Tuesday) 19:30
Location
Nottingham Royal Concert Hall

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Performing with, Esther Yoo, violin Programme Finland Bruch Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor op.26 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet, suite (selection of suite no. 1 and 2)
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Performing with,
Esther Yoo, violin
Programme
Finland Bruch Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor op.26
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet, suite (selection of suite no. 1 and 2)
Time
(Wednesday) 19:30
Location
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid

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Performing with, Truls Mørk, cello Programme Dvorák Cello Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony Manfredo op. 58
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Performing with,
Truls Mørk, cello
Programme
Dvorák
Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky
Symphony Manfredo op. 58
Time
(Thursday) 19:30
Location
Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid

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Performing with, Truls Mørk, cello Programme Dvorák Cello Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony Manfredo op. 58
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Performing with,
Truls Mørk, cello
Programme
Dvorák
Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky
Symphony Manfredo op. 58
Time
(Friday) 20:00
Location
Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante
Av. de Jijona, 5, 03010 Alacant, Alicante, Spain

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Vasily Petrenko Conductor Truls Mørk Cello Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Programme Journeys of Discovery: Destiny Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Elgar Cello Concerto Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony Dukas and Tchaikovsky spirit us away into worlds of sorcerers and ghosts, while Elgar’s bittersweet
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Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Truls Mørk Cello
Programme
Journeys of Discovery: Destiny
Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Elgar Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony
Dukas and Tchaikovsky spirit us away into worlds of sorcerers and ghosts, while Elgar’s bittersweet concerto grounds us in the fragility of life.
Right from jaunty trio of bassoons that dance the first theme of Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Dukas offers us a masterclass in orchestral colour. Each episode of Goethe’s ballad is imagined in playful detail, from the march of the brooms to the raucous mayhem that ensues.
Elgar’s concerto brings us back to the somber realities of life. Part lament for the First World War, and written in the autumn of his life, it yearns for a simpler, untainted past. It is a moment of contemplation in an otherwise energetic programme.
The writer Harold Schonberg once described Tchaikovsky’s music being ‘as emotional as a scream from a window on a dark night.’ His Manfred Symphony is a perfect example. In Byron’s dramatic poem and ghost story, Manfred is a man tormented by guilt and remorse who uses the dark arts to summon spirits to help him forget his past and escape his fate.
Tchaikovsky’s fateful music makes the perfect partner for Manfred’s travails while also delighting in his escapes into fantasy. The work contains both the lightest, most impressionistic moments and the loudest climax he ever wrote.
Time
(Sunday) 19:30
Location
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 8XX

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Vasily Petrenko Conductor Hanna Hipp Mezzo-soprano Philharmonia Chorus Tiffin Boys’ Choir Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Programme Journeys of Discovery: Dreams Mahler Symphony No.3 Riotous, hallucinatory, extraordinary: Mahler’s Third Symphony knows no bounds, taking us from the smallest
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Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Hanna Hipp Mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Chorus
Tiffin Boys’ Choir
Programme
Journeys of Discovery: Dreams
Mahler Symphony No.3
Riotous, hallucinatory, extraordinary: Mahler’s Third Symphony knows no bounds, taking us from the smallest flower to the mystery of divine love.
Mahler’s famous quote about ‘embracing the world’ in his symphonies finds its fullest expression in this, his longest symphony. In six movements he charts the evolution of nature and mankind. The elemental power of summer is set against the delicacy of the natural world. And the dark night of the soul is broken by the sounds of angels and a ‘great summons’ to love more deeply than ever before.
A symphony filled with music of life-enhancing physicality and breathtaking melodic beauty, it is a story of such breadth and ambition that only Mahler could have dreamed of it, let alone write it.
This concert has been rescheduled from from Thu 8 April 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Time
(Thursday) 19:30
Location
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore, South Kensington, SW7 2AP
may 2023

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Performing with, Adela Zaharia soprano Programme Bernd Richard Deutsch Phantasma (UK premiere: co-commissioned with the Concertgebouw, Cleveland Orchestra and Bamberger Symphoniker) Strauss Brentano Lieder (Six Songs) Scriabin Symphony No.3, The Divine Poem
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Performing with,
Adela Zaharia soprano
Programme
Bernd Richard Deutsch Phantasma (UK premiere: co-commissioned with the Concertgebouw, Cleveland Orchestra and Bamberger Symphoniker)
Strauss Brentano Lieder (Six Songs)
Scriabin Symphony No.3, The Divine Poem
Time
(Thursday) 19:30
Location
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Hope St, Liverpool L1 9BP

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Vasily Petrenko Conductor Arabella Steinbacher Violin Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Programme Journeys of Discovery: Psychedelia Jennifer Higdon blue cathedral Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.2 Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Dukas and Tchaikovsky spirit us away into worlds of sorcerers and ghosts, while
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Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Arabella Steinbacher Violin
Programme
Journeys of Discovery: Psychedelia
Jennifer Higdon blue cathedral
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.2
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Dukas and Tchaikovsky spirit us away into worlds of sorcerers and ghosts, while Elgar’s bittersweet concerto grounds us in the fragility of life.
Right from jaunty trio of bassoons that dance the first theme of Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Dukas offers us a masterclass in orchestral colour. Each episode of Goethe’s ballad is imagined in playful detail, from the march of the brooms to the raucous mayhem that ensues.
Elgar’s concerto brings us back to the somber realities of life. Part lament for the First World War, and written in the autumn of his life, it yearns for a simpler, untainted past. It is a moment of contemplation in an otherwise energetic programme.
The writer Harold Schonberg once described Tchaikovsky’s music being ‘as emotional as a scream from a window on a dark night.’ His Manfred Symphony is a perfect example. In Byron’s dramatic poem and ghost story, Manfred is a man tormented by guilt and remorse who uses the dark arts to summon spirits to help him forget his past and escape his fate.
Tchaikovsky’s fateful music makes the perfect partner for Manfred’s travails while also delighting in his escapes into fantasy. The work contains both the lightest, most impressionistic moments and the loudest climax he ever wrote.
Time
(Wednesday) 19:30
Location
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 8XX
20may20:00Fukuoka, Japan - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra20:00 Fukuoka Symphony Hall
21may15:00Osaka, Japan - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra15:00 Festival Hall, Osaka

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Performing with, Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano Programme Gliere: Overture on Slavonic Themes Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique”
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Performing with,
Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano
Programme
Gliere: Overture on Slavonic Themes
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique”
Time
(Monday) 19:00
Location
Suntory Hall
1 Chome-13-1 Akasaka, Minato City, Tokyo 107-0052, Japan
23may19:30Takasaki, Japan - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra19:30 Takasaki City Theatre
24may19:30Tokyo, Japan - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra19:30 Bunkyō City Hall
26may19:30Tokyo, Japan - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich19:30 Suntory Hall

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Performing with, Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano Programme Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 Shostakovich: Symphony No.8
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Performing with,
Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano
Programme
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1
Shostakovich: Symphony No.8
Time
(Friday) 19:30
Location
Suntory Hall
1 Chome-13-1 Akasaka, Minato City, Tokyo 107-0052, Japan
27may19:30Nagoya, Japan - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra19:30 Aichi Arts Center
june 2023

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Vasily Petrenko Conductor Nobuyuki Tsujii Piano Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Programme Journeys of Discovery: Confict chaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 Shostakovich Symphony No.8 chaikovsky’s effusive concerto is paired with a symphony that pulls no punches. Tchaikovsky laboured long
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Vasily Petrenko Conductor
Nobuyuki Tsujii Piano
Programme
Journeys of Discovery: Confict
chaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1
Shostakovich Symphony No.8
chaikovsky’s effusive concerto is paired with a symphony that pulls no punches.
Tchaikovsky laboured long and hard on his First Piano Concerto, revising it three times. The result was a work that has stood the test of time, shooting its arrow direct to the heart. All sentiments are there: fury, serenity, joy, and – of course – passion.
Shostakovich’s response to the unfathomable losses of the Second World War was to write a work that did not shy away from the ugliness and chaos of the indiscriminate suffering that had been unleashed. As is so often the case with his music, listening to the Eighth Symphony offers a catharsis, moving from unrelenting pressure to finding final release.
‘All that is dark and evil rots away, and beauty triumphs,’ wrote the composer. And yet the hallmark of Shostakovich is his ambiguity. After the pain and suffering, can anything ever be the same again?
Time
(Wednesday) 19:30
Location
Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 8XX
july 2023
04jul19:30Munich, Germany - Munich Opera Festival - Mussorgsky19:30 Bayerische Staatsoper

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Programme Mussorgsky Boris Godunov
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Programme
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov
Time
(Tuesday) 19:30
Location
Bayerische Staatsoper
06jul19:00Munich, Germany - Munich Opera Festival - Mussorgsky19:00 Bayerische Staatsoper

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Programme Mussorgsky Boris Godunov
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Programme
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov
Time
(Thursday) 19:00
Location
Bayerische Staatsoper