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La Bohème
Opera International’s award-winning Ellen Kent Production.
Making a first-ever stop-off in Birmingham before heading to Coventry two days later, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra open proceedings in both concerts with a performance of one of their countryman Arvo Pärt’s best-known works: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten.
In their Coventry concert, they then turn their attention to Thea Musgrave’s Song Of Enchanter and Sibelius’ Symphony No5.
The evening’s programme is completed with a performance by Barry Douglas of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No2.
The Gold Medal winner at the 1986 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, Barry is here stepping in for Freddy Kempf, who has had to pull out of the orchestra’s UK concert tour for personal reasons.