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BBC Proms 2025: Full line-up revealed, including first-time Traitors Prom

86 star-studded Proms will be held across the eight-week festival

The Independent UK

Claudia Winkleman to host Traitors Prom as BBC reveals line-up for 2025 season

US musician St Vincent and British conductor Sir Simon Rattle also feature in the series of Proms.

Evening Standard

Sarah Leonard obituary

Soprano with a remarkable high register who made her debut at La Scala, Milan, and sang with the Michael Nyman Band

The Guardian - UK

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Bristol Proms/BBC Singers/Jeannin and BSO/Karabits/Glennie review – celebratory and thoughtful

The BBC Singers celebrated their centenary in style, while the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra marked a milestone with the departure of Karabits as chief conductor

The Guardian - UK

Wigmore Hall launches £10m fund in bid to be self-sustaining

The London classical music venue announces plan against a background of arts funding cuts and in ‘an uncertain public environment for classical music’

The Guardian - UK

‘A James Bond night? Absolutely!’ Radio 3 boss Sam Jackson reveals his big shakeup

The ex-boss of Classic FM is rebooting the BBC’s venerable home of classical music, with new shows and presenters – including a special slot for ‘perfect fit’ Jools Holland

The Guardian - UK

The BBC Proms fights for its future

Hurt by arts cuts, gender balance criticisms and a post-Brexit lack of musicians from Europe, this year’s event is rife with insecurity. But, says Opera Now’s editor Hattie Butterworth, there is also defiant innovation...

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‘Alternative funding models’ for BBC Singers being considered

Charlotte Moore said the BBC is committed to being the ‘greatest champion for classical music’.

The Independent UK

Violin virtuoso joins ‘real battle’ to save classical music from UK funding cuts

Soloist Nicola Benedetti has added her voice to those speaking up for a genre now facing severe financial constraints

The Guardian - UK

Simon Rattle: UK classical music is fighting for life after ‘swingeing’ funding cuts

The outgoing director of the London Symphony Orchestra says that cuts by Arts Council England and the BBC risk destroying the entire sector

The Guardian - UK

LSO director Simon Rattle speaks out about ‘desperate’ situation for UK classical music

BBC Singers are under pressure amid budget cuts

The Independent UK

Female conductors to open and close BBC Proms for first time

Dalia Stasevska and Marin Alsop among 10 women conducting in 2023 season as festival moves towards gender equality

The Guardian - UK

BBC Singers will play an ‘important role’ in Proms, says event director

The corporation recently announced it has suspended the proposed closure of the choir.

The Independent UK

BBC commits to exploring ‘alternatives’ to proposed classical performer job cuts

The performing groups include the symphony, concert and philharmonic orchestras and BBC Singers.

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‘One of the most important works of our time’ – inside Innocence, Kaija Saariaho’s school-shooting opera

Sung in nine languages, with music by one of the world’s most acclaimed composers, Innocence comes to the UK this month. The team behind it reveal how it drew on everything from The Last Supper to Finnish cowherding music

The Guardian - UK

Arts-world activism saved the BBC Singers. Let’s take the same fight to government cuts

The surge of support for choral group is proof that we have the power to push back against savage Arts Council cutbacks

The Independent UK

BBC suspends proposed closure of the BBC Singers

The choir will appear at the Proms this year, the broadcaster has confirmed.

The Guardian - UK

BBC Singers: decision to scrap choir reversed after public outcry

Chamber choir to resume place in Proms programme after plans to shut it down met fierce opposition

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Britain’s art institutions face death by a thousand cuts. Why are they just putting up with it?

Life-changing organisations are left bloodied and bowed, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

The Independent UK

Plans to scrap BBC Singers sends ‘incredibly bleak message’ – letter

Senior members of the UK choral industry say the decision was ‘a huge false economy’.

The Independent UK

Ivors Academy warns BBC of ‘damaging consequences’ of classical music cuts

A letter was signed by 462 composers and musicians showing their support for the BBC performing group musicians.

The Guardian - UK

There is no one with power to fight for classical music at the BBC now. It’s as if Herod runs the creche

Savage cuts suggest a cadre of bosses has forgotten what public service broadcasting is, says Paul Hughes, former director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the BBC Singers

The Guardian - UK

BBC chief draws ire of 700 composers with ‘devastating’ plan to axe choir

Closure of BBC Singers was announced last week along with 20% cut to salaried positions in BBC orchestras

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the BBC silencing its Singers

Axing musicians and its chamber choir won’t make the broadcaster richer, but will make the nation poorer

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Decision; The Dream of Gerontius; Soloists of the CBSO – review

Birmingham Opera Company regroup, and the CBSO triumph in Elgar’s great oratorio as the city’s rich musical life thrives. And shock and anger as the BBC Singers are axed

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