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4 Feb
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4 Feb
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Friday, March 4, 2016 at
AKHNATEN
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
ENO
Divine ruler of Egypt, husband to Nefertiti, father of a new religion. Akhnaten decrees that the sun god rules supreme, and the old gods must be banished from their temples.
But instead, his people turn upon their Pharaoh as a traitor. Akhnaten must die. Will his new faith live on?
Watching Akhnaten is a thought-provoking, absorbing experience.
This extraordinary work has not been seen in London for 30 years and forms the last of Philip Glass’s trilogy of ‘portrait’ operas in which he looks at figures from the fields of science (Einstein), politics (Gandhi) and religion (Akhnaten).
This hypnotically mesmerising work uses texts drawn from ancient hymns, prayers, letters and inscriptions sung in their original Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian.
ENO’s new production is directed by Improbable theatre company’s Phelim McDermott and follows his spectacular stagings of Glass’s Satyagraha and The Perfect American.
Performances until 18th March
Philip Glass : AKHNATEN
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5 Feb
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Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 7.00pm
Anthony Green at 70. Piano recital
Schott Recital Room @ Bauer & Hieber
48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F7BB
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10 (£7 concessions)
Anthony Green
Saturday March 5th, 7.00pm
Anthony Green - Contemporary Piano Recital
Celebrating three birthdays and an anniversary, Anthony Green plays 3 Intermezzos, 12 Inventions and the Fourth Sonata by Frank Bayford (who is 75) Housman's Spinney by John Mitchell (who is 70) and a number of pieces by himself (he is also 70) including the premiere of his Sonata No.7. There is also a Panegyric for Anthony Green at 70 by Nick Ray, pieces by Schoenberg and Webern and Elegy No.1, Toccata and Indian Diary by Busoni (150th anniversary).
Tickets: £10 (£7 concessions) from 020 7534 0710 or on the door.
Nick Ray : Panegyric for Anthony Green at 70 (2016) [piano]
Anthony Green : Piano Sonata no.7
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5 Feb
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Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 7.30pm
Tourbillon Grisey
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Composition, Sound Installation, Video and Animation Daniele Ghisi
Inspired by the eponymous book by John W. Dunne
Script Daniele Ghisi, Luigi Acerbi, Paolo Puggioni
Script Assistant Maryam Babaei
Video Assistant Luca Morino
Graphic Advisor Davide Bordogna
Visuals drawn by Luca Nava
Divertimento Ensemble
IRCAM Computer Music Design Manuel Poletti
IRCAM Sound engineer Sylvain Cadars
Photo credits Miroslav Barták, From Old Books, Karl Jahnke
Copies of the Illustrated London News shoLondon News/Mary Evans Picture Library
Audio credits Tebblofang, empraetorius, HollowRiku, lucaslara, nebulousflynn, exterminat, Omar Alvarado, RutgerMuller, Runey, SunnySideSound
Additional thanks to Mattia Bergomi, Sylvain Cadars, Aaron Einbond, Carla Felotti, Maria Giulia Ganassini, Boris Labbé, Virgilio Maffeis and family, Yann Philippe, Andrea Rota, Christopher Trapani, Paul Slocum and Vincenzo Picariello
"Abolish all material in favor of length is a dream that I have followed for several years. Vortex Temporum is perhaps only the story of an arpeggio in space and time, below and beyond our auditory window that my memory has let swirl around during the months dedicated to writing this piece." This masterpiece by Gérard Grisey has inspired numerous artists, such as Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker who choreographed it, before turning it into an exposition of movement for a museum space. Three archetypical images characterize this "tourbillion of time": the time of men and language, the wide time of whales and the rhythm of sleep, the extreme contraction of the time of birds.
In the work by Daniele Ghisi, also marked by Grisey, An Experiment with Time includes several temporal cycles - a day, a year, a lifetime. Following the installation that premiered opening night of ManiFeste-2015, the Italien composer presents here the final version of the diary inspired by John William Dunne's text, a curious machine that dilates time and enables past, present, and future to coexist.
Daniele Ghisi : An Experiment With Time
Gerard Grisey : Vortex Temporum
Raphaël Cendo : Radium
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6 Feb
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Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 4:00pm
Organist Gail Archer Performs in Oakland
First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
2619 Broadway
United States
510-444-3555
http://www.firstchurchoakland.org
Tickets: Suggested donation $10
organist Gail Archer
Gail Archer is a Grammy-nominated, international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer. Lucid Culture proclaimed, "Like the composers she chooses, Archer's playing spans the range of human emotions—with Bach, there’s always plenty to communicate, but this time out it was mostly an irresistibly celebratory vibe." Ms. Archer's recordings span the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, a festive discography that highlights her musical mastery on grand Romantic instruments as well as Baroque tracker organs. Her most recent compact disc, Bach, the Transcendent Genius, celebrates the brilliant improvisations on Lutheran hymn tunes of the "Great 18" chorale preludes (MM1013). Ms. Archer is college organist at Vassar College, and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus. She serves as director of the artist and young organ artist recitals at historic Central Synagogue, New York City.
J.S. Bach : Great 18
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9 Feb
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 7.30pm
Composer Focus: Thomas Adès
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Thomas Adès conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter violin
Samuel Dale Johnson baritone
London Symphony Orchestra
In recent years composer-conductor Thomas Adès has become an unstoppable creative force. In this LSO composer focus series he conducts his own works alongside the music that influenced and informed his development as a composer.
Adès’ striking ‘voyage for orchestra’ Polaris is inspired by the magnetic pole-star, with its harmonies rotating hypnotically around a central pitch. Brahms’ legendary Violin Concerto is then performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter in anticipation of Adès’ own work Brahms for Baritone and Orchestra. Brahms is an ‘anti-homage’ to the composer inspired by the cold logic of his music, taking his compositional compulsions to extreme conclusions.
The programme closes with Adès’ one-movement symphony Tevot. As ever with Adès the dual meaning of the title is key to understanding the work fully, in this case ‘Tevot’ is both the Hebrew for ‘bars of music’ and used in the Bible to refer to Noah’s ark. Over its one-movement span the listener is guided through a monumental journey contrasting moments of incredible turbulence with sudden stasis and calm.
Thomas Ades : Polaris
Johannes Brahms : Violin Concerto
Thomas Ades : Brahms
Thomas Ades : Tevot
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9 Feb
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10 Feb
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Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 7.30pm
POPPE: SPEICHER
Coronet Theatre
28 New Kent Road London SE1 6TJ
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7701 1500
http://coronettheatre.co.uk/contact/
info@coronetlondon.co.uk
Susanna Malkki conductor
London Sinfonietta
Much more than just a piece of music, Enno Poppe’s Speicher is a complex structure of variations and repetitions that pushes its 22 players to their interpretative and technical extremes. But it is just as immersive for its audience as it is for those on stage. Speicher is an adventure in active listening –gradually revealing clues as to what might be coming next through an unpredictable network of derivations. As we, too, become part of the unfolding music, so it truly comes alive. Developed over five years and premiered in Europe in 2013, this will be its landmark UK premiere.
Enno Poppe : Speicher
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11 Feb
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12 Feb
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13 Feb
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Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 5.00pm - 7.00pm
Celebration of Spring
Alyth, London
NW11 7EN
United Kingdom
http://www.alyth.org.uk/
katie@alyth.org.uk
Tickets: £12 (under 16s free)
VIVIENNE BELOS (MBE), CONDUCTOR
Vivienne Belos, soprano
Tami Tal, soprano
Katie Hainbach, mezzo soprano
Rachel Broadbent, oboe
Stephen Dickinson, piano
Kimon Pallikaropoulos, piano
Kelvin Thomson, piano
Kevin Vockerodt, piano
Noam Solomons-Wise, percussion
Lior Solomons-Wise, shofar
ALYTH CHORAL SOCIETY
ALYTH CHILDREN'S CHOIR
Bob Chilcott : Songs and Cries of London Town
Julian Dawes : Psalm 140
Julian Dawes : Priestly Blessing
Julian Dawes : Limericks from Edward Lear
Julian Dawes : Love Songs
Julian Dawes : Siren Song
Kelvin Thomson : Song's Eternity
Kelvin Thomson : Babel
Kelvin Thomson : There is only...
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13 Feb
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Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 4pm
LSO Futures: Concert 1
LSO St Luke's, London
161 Old Street London EC1V 9NG
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes/
admin@lso.co.uk
François-Xavier Roth conductor
LSO Chamber Orchestra
LSO Futures, the LSO's biennial festival of contemporary music, returns with two chamber symphonies written at opposite ends of the 20th century that follow a world premier from the 21st.
Donald Glaser won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber, a piece of equipment used for the study of subatomic particles. This is how we begin the 2016 edition of LSO Futures, with a breakthrough: a world premiere from Darren Bloom inspired by this landmark scientific event. Then it’s two chamber symphonies, two more breakthroughs and two very different composers: Schoenberg’s chamber symphony, written on the brink of his revolutionary break with tonality, and Thomas Adès’s, a work of staggering maturity and accomplishment from the 19 year old who would go on to become one of Britain’s leading living composers.
Darren Bloom : Dr Glaser's Experiment
Thomas Ades : Chamber Symphony
Arnold Schoenberg : Chamber Symphony
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13 Feb
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13 Feb
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Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 7pm
LSO FUTURES: CONCERT 2
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
François-Xavier Roth conductor
Synergy Vocals
London Symphony Orchestra
LSO Futures, the LSO's biennial festival of contemporary music, returns with two 20th-century masterpieces and a world premiere for the 21st.
François-Xavier Roth opens with Ligeti's Atmosphères, a swirling sound mass that rebelled as much against traditional forms as it did against the prevailing dogma of serialism. And Berio's Sinfonia, a monumental work from the Italian master, famous for its haunting ode to the late Martin Luther King and a middle movement that weaves three centuries of musical fragments into a rich tapestry of familiar quotations. 50 years on from their premieres, these two works provide a fitting frame for a new work by former LSO Panufnik composer Elizabeth Ogonek.
Gyorgy Ligeti : Atmosphères
Elizabeth Ogonek : Sleep & Unremembrance
Luciano Berio : Sinfonia
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18 Feb
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18 Feb
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Friday, March 18, 2016 at 7.30pm
MacMillan Little Mass
Usher Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
Peter Oundjian Conductor
Nicola Benedetti Violin
Crazy in love…when Hector Berlioz couldn’t win the girl of his dreams, he went for broke. The result? His astonishing Symphonie fantastique – a wild-eyed, opium-fuelled blockbuster that still sets hairs on end today. With Peter Oundjian at the helm, a specially-written choral work by one of Scotland’s greatest living composers sung by the RSNO Junior Chorus, and the nation’s favourite Nicola Benedetti playing Szymanowski’s sensuous, shimmering concerto, this is a special 125 performance not to be missed.
Karol Szymanowski : Violin Concerto No.2
James MacMillan : Little Mass
Hector Berlioz : Symphony Fantastique
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18 Feb
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Friday, March 18, 2016 at 7.30pm
Anthony Payne Visions and Journeys
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Lower Mosley Road
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor | Leonard Elschenbroich cello
Visions and journeys: from a scented garden high above the Mediterranean, Walton imagined a cello concerto that blossoms with song; Albert Roussel took the elegance of the French baroque, and exploded it to release a burst of energy and waves of glittering sound; Anthony Payne takes a sea voyage to the Scilly Isles (tonight’s performance is an 80th birthday gift to this last of the British romantics); and Georges Bizet conjures up the sunlight, fragrance and passion of Spain, in what’s surely got to be the world’s favourite opera.
Sexy melodies and ravishing colours: Yan Pascal Tortelier will be in his element, joined by rising star Leonard Elschenbroich, and reunited with the BBC Philharmonic.
Anthony Payne : Visions and Journeys
William Walton : Cello Concerto
Albert Roussel : Suite in F major
Georges Bizet : Carmen – orchestral extracts
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18 Feb
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19 Feb
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Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 7:30pm
PhiloSonia Inaugural Concert - "Revelations"
The Old Stone House
336 Third Street, btw. 4th/5th Avenues, Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
http://www.theoldstonehouse.org
info@theoldstonehouse.org
Tickets: $20/15
Stanichka Dimitrova,violin
Igor Pikayzen violin
Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola
Adrian Daurov, cello
PhiloSonia is an innovative concert experience, designed to create a personal connection between audience members and classical music.
PhiloSonia offers an insight into established and new works from the chamber music repertoire. Through compelling programming and interactive elements listeners are guided through an in-depth exploration of a wide variety of works.
Ludwig Beethoven : String Quartet Op. 59 #1, Allegro
Ludwig Beethoven : String Quartet Op. 59 #3, Menuetto; Allegro Molto
Bedøich Smetana : String Quartet # 1 "From My Life", Vivace
Franz Schubert : String Quartet D 810 "Death and The Maiden", Andante con moto
Felix Mendelssohn : String Quartet #6 in F minor, Allegro; Adagio
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20 Feb
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20 Feb
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Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 7pm
Equinox: light and dark
Turner Hall
1040 N 4th St
United States
414-271-0711
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/equinox.aspx
emwoehlke@presentmusic.org
Tickets: 15, 25, 35
Present Music
Last season's Equinox was "aglow with promise" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), contrasting light and dark, death and life, and this year is no different as Present Music presents Equinox: light and dark, March 20, 2016. Performing the brooding, atmospheric Night Scenes from the Ospedale by Robert Honstein (written as part of the Vivaldi Project, the goal of which was to weave early and new music together seamlessly) will make an intriguing contrast to Vivaldi’s sunny L’Estro Armonico. Judd Greenstein’s Clearing, Dawn and Dance (“…an epically high flying work reminiscent of Glass's dance and cinema pieces while never abandoning Greenstein's own signature palette of sounds” - wqxr), Andrew Norman’s Music in Circles (a “5 minute static electricity storm” - Pitchfork) and music by Ligeti and Gubaidulina will connect as we cross the divide from winter to spring.
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20 Feb
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Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 1.00pm to 5.00pm and 7.00pm to 9.00 pm
Soundmarks
Hoxton Hall
130 Hoxton St, London N1 6SH
United Kingdom
020 7684 0060
http://https://www.hoxtonhall.co.uk/
Tickets: Daytime £15, £10 and Evening £10, £7
Jerry Wigens, composer, bass clarinet, with:
Evie O’Driscoll, cello
Rosie Bergonzi, percussion
Dylan Bates, bongos
Janet Oates, composer, voice, with
CoMA Singers:
Gordon Banner
Katie Boot
Elizabeth Dobson
Imogen Dyer
Jill House
John McCleod
Sonja Mes
Page Starr
CoMA Winds:
Adam Lewin - clarinet
Emily Nevis - flute
Karen Burnell - tenor horn
Ian Mitchell - bass clarinet
Shamim Azad, poet, story teller
Yousuf Ali Kahn - tabla
Isabel White, performance poet, with:
James Hodgson - performance poet
Sabina Virtuso - violin
Robin Pilcher – performance poet
Cassandra Mathews – Guitar/Lute
Emma O’Rourke – designer
Irene Wernli – dancer, choreographer
Ilze Ikse, flute
Daniel Figols, composer, laptop
Paula Newbery, artist
Marjorie Lazaro, poet
Contakt:
Kerry Andrews, cello
Karen Burnell, tenor horn
Paul Burnell, oboe
Deborah Edwards, laptop
Derek Foster, vibes
Soundmarks is a contemporary variety show - a series of ‘events’ throughout the day in various spaces in the building, organized by Contakt, a contemporary music ensemble.
Soundmarks aims to explore the significance of place in music and our collective and individual lives.
Supported using public fundings by Arts Council England.
Kerry Andrews : TBA
Janet Oates : Off the wall
Janet Oates : Shop
Janet Oates : Cecilia
John King : Lux Aeterna
Robert Percy : Hakka
Deborah Broderick Edwards : Coasts
Derek Foster : Colours of Meditation
Daniel Figols : SVIRA
Jerry Wigens : ACPT
Shamim Azad : A Story
Isabel White : Warp and Weft
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21 Feb
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22 Feb
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22 Feb
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22 Feb
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22 Feb
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23 Feb
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 7.30pm
A musical journey through Holy Week
St Botolph without Bishopsgate
Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3TL
United Kingdom
http://www.botolph.org.uk/
Tickets: £12 (inc glass of wine), under 25's £5
London Concord Singers
Jessica Norton (conductor)
For their Easter Concert on Wednesday 23 March 2016, London Concord Singers, with their new conductor Jessica Norton, are presenting a musical journey through events of Holy Week, combining contemporary works such as John Tavener's The Lamb, James MacMillan's Tenebrae Responsories, Gabriel Jackson's O Sacrum Convivium and Robert Hugill's Resurrexi, with motets and anthems by Bruckner, Brahms, Weelkes and Byrd, concluding with JS Bach's great motet Jesu, meine Freude.
John Tavener : The Lamb
James MacMillan : Tenebrae Responsories
Gabriel Jackson : O Sacrum Convivium
Robert Hugill : Resurrexi
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Friday, March 25, 2016 at 8:00 p.m.
BMOP Presents Song Cycle Child Alice 3/25
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $20-50
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Soprano Courtenay Budd
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the 2016 Musical America Ensemble of the Year, ends its 20th anniversary season with the Boston premiere of David Del Tredici’s complete Child Alice (1981) featuring the acclaimed soprano Courtenay Budd. Based on poems prefacing Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this 135-minute evening-length work changed the course of 20th century music.
David Del Tredici : Child Alice
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29 Feb
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at
The Importance of Being Earnest
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home
ROH
Irish composer Gerald Barry’s wildly inventive and idiosyncratic setting of Wilde’s classic play The Importance of Being Earnest has been an extraordinary success. Since its 2011 concert premiere in Los Angeles and its 2013 stage premiere in Nancy, it has enchanted audiences with its high-energy madcap humour, and in 2013 it won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best large-scale composition. Ramin Gray’s fabulously ridiculous production for the Royal Opera House marked the work’s UK stage premiere.
Barry’s hyperactive score runs helter-skelter through numerous musical languages – everything from serialist pastiche to galumphing concerto grosso gets a look in, riveted through with increasingly giddy variations on ‘Auld Lang Syne’. From the basso profundo Lady Bracknell’s spluttered Beethovenian Schiller to Gwendolen and Cecily’s Sprechstimme battle of spite through megaphones to the accompaniment of 40 solemnly smashed plates, The Importance of Being Earnest is insanely virtuoso, brilliantly hilarious and packed with invention.
Performances until April 3rd.
Gerald Barry : The Importance of Being Earnest
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