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Callum Thorpe sings Polifemo in Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo as part of this year’s London Handel Festival with performances from 10 – 13 April at Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse, conducted by Laurence Cummings. This is a return to Handel for Callum who has performed it extensively with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at Glyndebourne, Paris, Amsterdam and...

James Newby returns to the Leeds Lieder Festival on 17 April with pianist Joseph Middleton. In a recital at the Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds, as part of a new collaboration with promoter Through the Noise, they hope to bring classical music to new and diverse audiences by “presenting concerts in nightclub settings rather than traditional concert halls.”

Mark Padmore looks forward to returning to the Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ in Amsterdam on 25 April for a recital of Schubert and Schumann as part of their Great Singers series. This recital with pianist Andrew West will include the Schumann song cycle Liederkreis Op. 24.

Stuart Jackson marks Good Friday with a performance of Frank Martin’s rarely performed oratorio Golgotha with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert, on 29th March, is at the TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.

David Bates looks forward to returning to the Komische Oper Berlin for a third visit – this time to conduct Handel’s dramatic oratorio Hercules. This Barrie Kosky production runs from 3rd March – 5th April. Also, on 24th March, David conducts a performance of Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt at the Chapelle Royale, Versailles with the Monteverdi Choir...