MUSIC / Music and Opera in 1994
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Rosenkavalier, ENO 2 Feb
Turn of the Screw, Tramway/Scottish Opera, 15 Feb
Katya Kabanova, ROH 4 Mar
Blond Eckbert by Judith Weir, ENO 20 Apr
Glyndebourne reopens with Figaro, 28 May
Playing Away by Benedict Mason, Opera North 31 May
New Ring cycles: Bayreuth summer, ROH autumn
Beatrice Cenci by Berthold Goldschmidt, Berlin 16 Sept
HK Gruber premiere at new theatre, Huddersfield, Nov
CONCERT PREMIERES
Denisov and others, in BBC National Orchestra of Wales Russian series 5-28 Jan
Adams Violin Concerto, Minnesota 19 Jan
Gorecki new work for Kronos, New York 20 Jan
Lloyd Tolerance, London Philharmonic, RFH 27 Jan
Carter Partita, Chicago 17 Feb
Glass Violin Concerto (UK prem), Kremer, Philharmonia, RFH 9 Mar
EVENTS
Rostropovich recital with Ian Brown, Barbican 8 Jan
The Classical Music Awards 1994, Royal Albert Hall 21 Jan (BBC 2 22 Jan)
Ikons (John Tavener series), BBC / Barbican 21-24 Jan
Towards the Millennium (1930s), Birmingham / Cardiff / London, Mar
Berio, South Bank Apr/May
Bournemouth Orchestras celebrate centenary by opening Basingstoke concert hall with Tavener premiere, 3 May
100th Proms, 15 July-10 Sept
Edinburgh Festival, 14 Aug-3 Sept, with Australian Opera
LSO 90th birthday season opens with Mahler festival, Barbican from 21 Sept
ANNIVERSARIES
400 (d): Giovanni Palestrina
300 (b): J H Roman
250 (d): Andre Campra
150 (b): Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Pablo Sarasate
100 (b): Walter Piston
100 (d): Emmanuel Chabrier, Guillaume Lekeu
75 (b): Galina Ustvolskaya
60 (b): Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Peter Dickinson, Zsolt Durko, William Mathias, Alfred Schnittke
60 (d): Frederick Delius, Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst
50 (b): York Holler, Michael Nyman, John Tavener
50 (d): Amy Beach, Cecile Chaminade, Ethel Smyth, Viktor Ullmann
AND FINALLY . . .
Front runners in the Classic FM voting on Friday afternoon: Vaughan Williams, Gorecki, Allegri. Bottom: Tavener, Delibes, and Purcell's Abdelazer - must be the Andrew Lloyd Webber Conservative party version.
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