The first reviews are in of our revival last Friday of the final, 1921 version of Puccini's La rondine led by our Artistic Director @CarloRizziMusic. Thank you to the critics from The Times, The Guardian and Plays To See for joining us 🙏 @ErmonelaJaho @ivan17293 @jujita2 🎶

#Puccini's La Rondine at Barbican .... the elusive final version! https://t.co/ECaveLr5Wv.

La Rondine review – new version of Puccini’s opera makes aftertaste bitter rather than sweet https://t.co/eWZoegLWil #LaRondine #Puccini #OperaReview #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #CarloRizzi

Ermonela Jaho gives a tragic twist to Puccini's La rondine @OperaRara @BBCSO ✍️ Peter Quantrill https://t.co/wzWrmaoCoG

“A massive cause for celebration”. Thank you! @operatoday @OperaRara @BarbicanCentre

“That rara avis, a perfect performance” ☺️ @OperaRara @BarbicanCentre

'The last thing Puccini actually completed was this third version. In a way it's his final completed score.' @DRindom spoke with @GeorgeHallMusic for @Operanow on our upcoming revival of the final 1921 version of La rondine. Read more here before 5 Dec:

Hugely excited to be involved with this project - the first time in over a century that the complete final version will be heard, with fantastic music that will be unknown even to Puccini lovers!

Tonight from 6pm BST/7pm CET, join us on YouTube for our 55th season launch 🎉 With our Artistic Director @CarloRizziMusic and Artist Ambassador @ErmonelaJaho: https://t.co/9US9DwiOLr

Today, London's Barbican Centre announced its 2025/26 classical season... giving every opera lover a reason to be in London on 5 December... We'll be revealing more later this month in our 55th season announcement 👀 #ErmonelaJaho #OperaRara55 @ErmonelaJaho

Today is the official cover reveal of my book, marking the start of Grief Awareness Week @goodgrieftrust. It means a lot to be able to share it. With huge thanks to the brilliant @hollydrawsinink. Out on 27 March, and available to preorder now! @septemberpublishing @Duckbooks

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If a state school with these amazing ex pupils cannot see the value of music education, what hope is there? Deeply saddening.

Very very disappointed about the result for @ThangamDebb - hope she’ll be back in Parliament when there’s a by-election. Labour have lost what would have been a great Culture Secretary.

you’re all getting free admission to the d’annunzio birthplace museum

Tonight from 6pm, we're back with our Reading with Roger book club ➡️ our Repertoire Consultant is joined by musicologists Emanuele Senici & Mary Ann Smart to talk Verdi following our recent revival of the 1857 version of Simon Boccanegra. Register here: https://t.co/qHvn3B0g74

In the comments section of the Mitsuko mic drop you find this predictable zombie cliché. First, it wasn’t Thelonious Monk. Second, dancing about architecture would be amazing — isn’t architecture all about the dance of forms and lines?

It's the stage where there are official announcements about my book with a photo and everything, and it's making it all feel properly-butterflies-levels of real. Thrilled to be working with the incredible @septemberbooks as well as @itshallBDunn

historically, men in this situation used a folding canopy called an umbrella

Remember it was on May Day that Tess ruined her life and avoid making eye contact while circling your Maypole