Concert Series 2015-16

CONCERT SERIES

2015 / 16 Plus:

Met Opera Live Coull Quartet Armonico Consort

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WELCOME Welcome to our 2015/16 series of orchestral concerts and recitals featuring some of the most accomplished classical music performers in the world today, visiting Warwick Arts Centre to delight, entertain and transport you, through the power of music, to newly imagined or fondly remembered worlds.

Our opening concert perhaps symbolises the intent of the year’s programme of classical music. Dresden will forever be linked to Coventry in this joint pursuit of peace and reconciliation; and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra throws its impressive force behind the opener - Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture - appropriate as the University of Warwick celebrates its 50th anniversary and its meteoric rise to become a world class global institution of learning and research.

This is followed by Beethoven’s Symphony No.3 Eroica, which celebrates heroic and democratic ideals emerging across Europe in the early nineteenth century. Classical greats which speak equally well to audiences today.

Our programme continues with friends and guests from across the world and closer to home. Don’t miss a rare recital in January by Mitsuko Uchida, seldom heard outside the world’s capital cities.

Words: Richard Bratby Cover image: Milos Karadaglic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, P07 Back page image: Baiba Skride, CBSO, P05

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE...

Our long time associates from the Philharmonia Orchestra fittingly complete the orchestral programme in May 2016 with Elgar’s Symphony No.2, a very British sound and scene as the blossom adorns the hedgerows of England.

Please do join me and my team as we celebrate great music performed by some of the world’s greatest musicians.

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Dresden Philharmonic

Dresden Philharmonic

Thu 8 Oct 2015 7.30pm Brahms Rachmaninov interval Beethoven

Academic Festival Overture Piano Concerto No.1

Conductor Piano

Michael Sanderling Andrei Korobeinikov

Symphony No.3 Eroica

Andrei Korobeinikov

Two chords slam out, and music is changed forever. Ludwig van Beethoven was the ultimate musical revolutionary, and he wrote his Third Symphony as a tribute to the ultimate revolutionary warrior – Napoleon Bonaparte. So when Napoleon betrayed his radical ideals, Beethoven was so enraged that he tore up the score. “If I could wage war like I can write music” he declared, “I would destroy him!” There’s never been a symphony like the Eroica; and with the right conductor and orchestra, it’s one of music’s most electrifying experiences.

So here’s the good news: the Dresden Philharmonic’s rapport with its Music Director Michael Sanderling is something unique. Sanderling’s Russian roots give him a hotline to the soul of Rachmaninov’s glittering First Piano Concerto, played tonight by Andrei Korobeinikov – the young Russian star whom Moscow Conservatoire declared its “student of the decade”. And no great German orchestra can resist the boozefuelled fun of Brahms’s uproarious Academic Festival Overture.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 Michael Sanderling

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In conversation with Andrei Korobeinikov.

Omer Meir Wellber

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Wed 4 Nov 2015 7.30pm Mendelssohn Schumann interval Brahms

Conductor Violin

Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Violin Concerto Symphony No.1

Omer Meir Wellber Baiba Skride

Drums pound, the strings cry out with pain – and Johannes Brahms begins the struggle of a lifetime. It took him ten years and a broken heart to write his First Symphony, and when it was finally complete, the critics dubbed it “Beethoven’s Tenth”. But when you hear the anguished heartbeats of its opening, you’ll begin to understand why – and when you hear the magnificent tune with which it finishes, you’ll agree.

Tonight, the CBSO and the acclaimed young Israeli conductor Omer Meir Wellber relive that incredible adventure, and join the superb Latvian violinist Baiba Skride in the dark romantic poetry of the only Violin Concerto by Brahms’s friend and mentor Schumann.

First though, Wellber shares Mendelssohn’s delightful seafaring overture (imagine The Hebrides on a less stormy day!) The CBSO is the orchestra that discovered Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons, and it’s currently looking for a new Music Director, so who knows? This might be the start of something big!

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 Baiba Skride

In conversation with Baiba Skride.

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Pietari Inkinen

Chloe Hanslip

Prague Symphony Orchestra Wed 25 Nov 2015 7.30pm Smetana Dvorak interval Dvorak

Sarka from Ma Vlast Violin Concerto

Conductor Violin

Pietari Inkinen Chloe Hanslip

Some pieces are classics for a reason – and with its drama, hearton-sleeve emotion and unforgettable tunes, Dvorak’s New World symphony was packing out concert halls decades before the Hovis advert! Plus - however well you think you know it - there’s always something magical about hearing Czech music played by a genuine Czech orchestra.

It might be the warm glow of its horns and woodwind, it might be the delicious lilt that it gives to a dance-rhythm, but the Prague Symphony Orchestra definitely has that special Bohemian something.

Under its new Chief Conductor Pietari Inkinen, the tradition continues; this should be a uniquely authentic performance of Smetana’s musical portrait of the warrior maiden Sarka. And it’ll be a real pleasure to hear one of our most engaging young violin virtuosos, Chloe Hanslip, in Dvorak’s bittersweet Violin Concerto. Performances are few and far between – so if you love Dvorak’s Cello Concerto, what are you waiting for?

Symphony No.9 From the New World

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with Chloe Hanslip.

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Royal Northern Sinfonia Fri 4 Dec 2015 7.30pm

“You can see why Miloš can manage to keep both the masses and the cognoscenti happy” wrote The Times in February 2015, of the ´ “Each soft pluck had young Montenegrin guitarist Miloš Karadaglic. an incredible gleam and bloom that said almost as much about the audience’s concentration as it did about the playing... But he’s also a musician of great subtlety and his programming in this delightful recital was intelligent and daring.”

Every generation produces at least one superstar classical guitarist – but for sheer charisma, there aren’t many that can touch Miloš Karadaglic. This concert with the Royal Northern Sinfonia doesn’t just offer the chance to hear him in the world’s favourite guitar concerto, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez (think Brassed Off); he’ll be playing a selection of solo items too, while Royal Northern Sinfonia leader Bradley Creswick directs Barber’s Adagio, Prokofiev’s firecracker of a Classical Symphony, and Mozart’s sunlit 36th.

Tune after tune after tune... go on, treat yourself!

Prokofiev Classical Symphony Barber Adagio for Strings Solo set by Milos Karadaglivic interval Mozart Symphony No.36 Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez

Director Guitar

Milos Karadaglic

Bradley Creswick Milos Karadaglic

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with Bradley Creswick.

Royal Northern Sinfonia

Bradley Creswick

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Mitsuko Uchida Piano Recital Wed 20 Jan 2016 7.30pm Berg Schubert interval Mozart Schumann

Piano Sonato Op.1 Four Impromptus D899

Piano

Mitsuko Uchida

Rondo in A minor K511 Piano Sonata No.1 in sharp minor Op.11

With some artists, the name is enough. For more than four decades Dame Mitsuko Uchida has been a byword for everything that’s freshest, most thoughtful and most natural about great piano playing. “No pianist today plays Mozart better than Mitsuko Uchida” says The Washington Post. “Her probing intelligence, abundant skill and spontaneous joy are perfectly suited to his music. She finds imaginative ways to bring out the drama, lyricism and wit in every phrase... her playing always sounds thoroughly individual, wonderfully alive and wholly Mozartean.”

But Dame Mitsuko doesn’t only play Mozart, and even though his Rondo K.511 is at the heart of her programme, this recital finds her exploring the length and breadth of German romanticism, from Schumann to Alban Berg by way of her beloved Schubert.

Mitsuko Uchida has devoted a lifetime to this music: there’s no more joyful – or illuminating – guide to these four utterly distinctive masterpieces.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 Details to follow.

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European Union Chamber Orchestra Tue 2 Feb 2016 7.30pm Symphony No.49 La Passione Piano Concerto No.2 K39

Haydn Mozart interval Mozart Grieg

Piano Concerto No.13 K415 Holberg Suite

Conductor Piano

Hans-Peter Hofmann Freddy Kempf Freddy Kempf

There are child prodigies – and then there was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. We all know the story, but still, just wait until you hear this rare performance of his Piano Concerto No.2: an exuberant, sparkling mini-masterpiece, brimming with grace and wit, and composed by a boy of 11.

Audience favourite Freddy Kempf gives it the deluxe treatment tonight, and then jumps forward to the magnificent concerto with which Mozart astonished Viennese audiences in 1783. Mozart, man and boy: a gloriously entertaining centrepiece to another delightful programme from the European Union Chamber Orchestra.

European Union Chamber Orchestra draws its members from Europe’s finest young professional orchestral players, and the result is a chamber orchestra that plays with the panache of a virtuoso soloist and the commitment of a top string quartet. Those qualities will come wonderfully to the fore in Haydn’s stormy early symphony, and the mock-baroque fun of Grieg’s playful Holberg Suite. Amadeus would have approved!

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 Hans-Peter Hofmann

In conversation with Freddy Kempf.

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Nikolai Demidenko

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Wed 17 Feb 2016 7.30pm

Alexander Liebreich

Adams Chopin interval Penderecki Brahms

The Chairman Dances Piano Concerto No.1

Conductor Piano

Alexander Liebreich Nikolai Demidenko

Chaconne Symphony No.3

“Free but happy” is the motto that Brahms gave to his Third Symphony, and it begins with all the exhilaration of a summer downpour. What comes next is one of the loveliest journeys in Romantic music, a world of rolling clouds, tender lullabies, and – at the end – a radiant sunset.

It’s a truly beautiful way to end a concert that‘s all about colour, played by one of Poland’s most admired orchestras under its dynamic new principal conductor, Alexander Liebreich.

Liebreich kicks things off with the driving rhythms, melodies and primary colours of John Adams’ fabulous The Chairman Dances (imagine Mao Tse Tung dancing a foxtrot through a Hollywood musical!)

There’s a haunting, tender miniature by Poland’s top living composer, exquisitely etched in shades of grey. Plus, of course – because this is a Polish orchestra – there’s Chopin: his unashamedly romantic First Piano Concerto. The great Nikolai Demidenko will drench it in glittering sound.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with Alexander Liebreich.

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Pinchas Zukerman

Wed 2 Mar 2016 7.30pm Elgar Beethoven interval Tchaikovsky

Serenade for Strings Violin Concerto Symphony No.4

Director/Violin Pinchas Zukerman

From the moment that its opening fanfares shatter the silence, you can tell that Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony means business.

Convinced that Fate itself was out to destroy him, Tchaikovsky poured everything into this shattering symphony: a no-holds-barred emotional autobiography, told in music of uncompromising rawness and drama.

Now imagine it conducted by a living legend, one of the world’s most admired violinists, conductors and all round musicians - an artist who’s been described as “a phenomenon in the world of music for over four decades”. Pinchas Zukerman is quite simply one of the all-time greats and the RPO’s Principal Guest Conductor, so imagine the poetry and passion he’ll bring to Tchaikovsky’s music, to say nothing of Elgar’s lovely Serenade.

And as if that wasn’t enough, he’s playing too: arguably the very greatest of classical violin concertos. “His sound is utterly inimitable” declared one critic, “the molten gold that streams from the instrument is completely breathtaking.” In other words: book early!

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 Details to follow.

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Bruckner Orchestra Linz Melvyn Tan

Dennis Russell Davies

Tue 26 Apr 2016 7.30pm Gluck-Wagner Iphigenia in Aulis Overture Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 interval Bruckner Symphony No.6

Conductor Piano

Dennis Russell Davies Melvyn Tan

Vast gothic Cathedrals, mighty Alpine peaks... people have compared Anton Bruckner’s symphonies to many things. That’s not really the point. What matters is that Bruckner wrote some of the most beautiful, most thrilling and most heartfelt music ever composed - and that under its veteran chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies, the orchestra of Bruckner’s own home town, Linz, plays that music with an unparalleled insight, authenticity and power. Still, it’s not every day that we get to hear the Sixth Symphony - the work that even Bruckner considered his most original - and no-one who loves great music-making will want to miss it.

That goes double when it’s paired with a rare chance to hear Melvyn Tan – one of the world’s greatest advocates of historically informed performance – playing a modern piano in Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto.

“Thoughtful, elegant and refined” is how The Guardian described Tan’s playing; his Beethoven will come up as fresh as new paint.

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with Melvyn Tan. 12

Philharmonia Orchestra

Edward Gardner

Tue 10 May 2016 7.30pm Sibelius Sibelius interval Elgar

Finlandia Violin Concerto

Conductor Violin

Edward Gardner Valeriy Sokolov

Symphony No.2

Valeriy Sokolov

“Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight!” Edward Elgar headed his Second Symphony with a quote from Shelley – but some say that you can see the line of the Malvern Hills in its sweeping opening theme. Edward Gardner is quickly emerging as one of our finest living interpreters of Elgar, so forget the knighthood, the moustache and the tweed jacket, and prepare to hear England’s greatest composer baring his very soul, amidst great surging waves of golden sound.

The Ukrainian violinist Valeriy Sokolov, meanwhile, has yet to turn thirty – but this self-proclaimed “natural born fiddler” has already won global acclaim. His sound has been compared to “silk and steel”; so he could have been born to play Sibelius’s Nordic epic of a violin concerto. Finlandia, meanwhile, is more than just a brand of vodka: a neat shot of Sibelius at his most stirring will get the evening off to a truly intoxicating start!

PRE-CONCERT TALK Woods-Scawen Room 6.15pm £2.50 Subscribers £1.50 In conversation with Edward Gardner.

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Coull Quartet Concerts 2015/16

String quartets travel light. With just four players, they’re not weighed down by baggage – they can explore, converse and experiment. And they can find their way into the places other music can’t reach: from the far corners of the sonic universe, to the innermost depths of the human heart.

For four decades here at the University of Warwick, the Coull Quartet has been exploring some of the greatest music ever written, and sharing it with an ever-growing audience. This season, they’re heading north to Scandinavia.

There’s a haunting song of loss from the brooding landscape of Iceland, a vision of Jean Sibelius searching his soul amidst the light and shade of a Finnish forest, and an explosion of life-affirming freshness from the Danish master Carl Nielsen.

It’s music that we rarely hear in the UK, but which speaks with an unforgettable voice. And as ever, the Coulls set their discoveries amidst timeless classics: masterpieces from Britten to Beethoven that have proved, time and again, their power to transport you to new worlds.

Come and share the journey.

PRE-CONCERT TALKS 6.15pm £1. Subscribers FREE All Coull Quartet concerts are preceded by a talk in the Helen Martin Studio.

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Tickets per concert £19 (£17) Subscribers can save up to 40% on Coull Quartet concerts if they book in advance – see booking form or ask at Box Office

Violin Violin Viola Cello

Roger Coull Philip Gallaway Jonathan Barritt Nicholas Roberts

A Song of Fire and Ice Thu 22 Oct 2015 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio Debussy Hallgrimsson Beethoven

Quartet in G minor Op.10 Quartet No.2 Quartet in E flat Op.74 The Harp

Debussy only wrote one string quartet, but he made every note blaze with passion. Beethoven had a bit more experience, and in his Quartet Op.74 he simply cut loose - expect thirty minutes of flying sparks, true romance and a violinist spinning out of control.

But both pieces positively glow with inner warmth. They’ll make a luminous, multi-coloured setting for the Second Quartet by Icelandic composer Haflidi Hallgrímsson: a heartfelt elegy for a friend that finds strength and hope amidst a vast, otherworldly musical landscape of loss.

It’s unforgettable.

Northern Light Wed 16 Mar 2016 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio Haydn Nielsen Dvorak

Quartet in C Op.74 No.1 Quartet No.3 in E flat Op.14 Quartet in D minor Op.34

If you’ve been to Scandinavia, you’ll have felt it – the tingle in the air and the luminous glow of a long summer evening or a brief winter afternoon.

In his exuberant Second Quartet, Carl Nielsen practically bottles that energy: chamber music simply doesn’t get any fresher or more vibrant.

It’s the perfect musical partner for the sunshine and wit of Haydn’s exuberant, folk-flavoured Op.74 No.1, and a life-affirming upbeat to Dvorak’s poignant Quartet Op.34. Personal sorrow, classical poise and playful Czech polkas all come together in a mini-masterpiece with a big, big heart.

Coull Quartet

Intimate Voices Wed 10 Feb 2016 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio Haydn Beethoven Sibelius

Quartet in F Op.74 No.2 Quintet in C Op.29 Quartet in D minor Op.56 Voces Intimae

In the forests of the north, something stirs.

Light filters through leaves, shadows flicker; someone whispers a secret - and the only way to learn it is through Sibelius’s extraordinary, elemental D minor string quartet.

The Coulls have paired Sibelius with the ultimate in urban sophistication – a brilliantly witty quartet that Haydn wrote specially to entertain British audiences - and invited a friend to join them for Beethoven’s only string quintet. Deep calm gives way to a truly operatic storm, but Beethoven’s only joking... isn’t he? Sibelius isn’t the only one sharing a secret tonight...

Waves and Wanderers Thu 19 May 2016 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio Haydn Quartet in G minor Op.74 No.3 The Rider Britten Quartet No.2 in C Op.36 Schubert Quartet in G D887 Only the North Sea separates Benjamin Britten’s beloved Suffolk coast from Scandinavia: and that northern light and salt-tinged freshness make Britten’s Second String Quartet glow from within.

That’s the heart of an evening that begins on the plains of Hungary with Haydn’s zingy “Rider” quartet, and then follows Franz Schubert on one of the greatest emotional journeys in all chamber music: as he ventures alone into the dark valleys and echoing Alpine vistas of his tremendous G major String Quartet. Four musicians travel to three incredible places – and you’re invited along.

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Armonico Consort

Sir Willard White

Armonico Consort Sun 20 Dec 2015 7.30pm Bach

Christmas Oratorio Parts 1, 3, 5 & 6

Musical Director Soprano Countertenor Tenor Bass

Christopher Monks Gillian Keith William Towers Nathan Vale Sir Willard White

They’ve played Purcell on trapezes, transformed The Magic Flute into a family panto, and created a 21st century romcom out of Handel’s greatest hits. This is Armonico Consort, the acclaimed Midlands-based ensemble that uses period instruments, internationally-renowned soloists and a superb, scaled-down professional choir to make baroque music as lively, as spontaneous and as shamelessly entertaining as its composers intended – and it’s left the critics grasping for superlatives.

After last year’s Warwick Arts Centre Messiah, the Consort returns with the mightiest of all musical Christmas celebrations: Bach’s huge, exuberantly colourful Christmas Oratorio, with none other than the great Jamaican-born bass-baritone Sir Willard White heading a starry team of soloists. When Sir Willard performed Bach with Armonico Consort in 2014, the results were described as “astonishing”.

Together, Bach’s inspiration, Armonico Consort’s joyous spirit, and that phenomenal voice will make this one musical Christmas present that you can be forgiven for unwrapping early!

GENERAL BOOKING OPENS MON 10 AUGUST. Butterworth Hall seating area: A: £39.50 (£37.50), B: £36.50 (£34.50), C: £33.50 (£32.50), D: £26.50 (£25.50), E: £20.50 (£19.50), Choir: £14.50

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MET OPERA LIVE 2015/16 Tickets: £26.50 (£21.50). Restricted view £11 The Met: Live in HD marks its tenth season offering a variety of operatic styles to global audiences. This year five new operas are added to its repertoire, including Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Berg’s Lulu, Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, and Strauss’s Elektra.

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“The HD transmissions stimulate opera lovers, and they are a catalyst for the singers, too,” said Met General Manager Peter Gelb. “Knowing that a global audience is watching and listening, our opera stars are inspired to give their greatest performances.”

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Otello

On sale from Fri 15 May 2015

On sale from Mon 7 Sep 2015

Il Trovatore Verdi

Turandot Puccini

Sat 3 Oct 5.55pm

Sat 30 January 5.55pm

Conductor: Marco Armiliato Production: Sir David McVicar Cast: Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Štefan Kocán

Conductor: Paolo Carignani Production: Franco Zeffirelli Cast: Nina Stemme, Anita Hartig, Marco Berti, Alexander Tsymbalyuk

Otello Verdi

Manon Lescaut Puccini

Sat 17 Oct 5.55pm

Sat 5 March 5.55pm

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Production: Bartlett Sher Cast: Aleksandrs Antonenko, Sonya Yoncheva, Dimitri Pittas, Željko Lučcicć´, Günther Gröissbock

Conductor: Fabio Luisi Production: Sir Richard Eyre Cast: Kristine Opolais, Jonas Kaufmann, Massimo Cavalletti, Brindley Sherratt

Tannhäuser Wagner

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Sat 31 Oct 4pm

Sat 2 April 5.55pm

Conductor: James Levine Production: Otto Schenk Cast: Johan Botha, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung, Peter Mattei, Günther Groissböck

Conductor: Karel Mark Chichon Production: Anthony Minghella Puppetry: Blind Summit Theatre Cast: Kristine Opolais, Maria Zifchak, Roberto Alagna, Dwayne Croft

New Production

Lulu Berg

New Production

Sat 21 Nov 5.30pm

Lulu

Elektra

Conductor: James Levine Production: William Kentridge Cast: Marlis Petersen, Susan Graham, Daniel Brenna, Paul Groves, Johan Reuter, Franz Grundheber

Les Pêcheurs de Perles Bizet New Production

Sat 16 Jan 5.55pm Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda Production: Penny Woolcock Cast: Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, Nicolas Testé

New Production

Roberto Devereux Donizetti MET Premiere

Sat 16 April 5.55pm Conductor: Maurizio Benini Production: Sir David McVicar Cast: Sondra Radvanovsky, Eliīna Garančca, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien

Elektra Strauss New Production

Sat 30 April 5.55pm Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen Production: Patrice Chéreau Cast: Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier, Burkhard Ulrich, Eric Owens

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By Car On approaches to Coventry, simply follow the brown signs for Warwick Arts Centre.

Once on the University of Warwick campus, head for car parks 6, 7 or 8. For the latest on the roads around Coventry visit: www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/travel

Our postcode for sat-nav is CV4 7AL

By Bus Regular bus services from Coventry, Leamington Spa and Kenilworth stop outside the Arts Centre. Traveline: 0871 200 2233.

By Train Services run regularly from Birmingham, Leicester and London to Coventry. Coventry station is just a short taxi or bus ride away.

Parking Stewards positioned at key drop off points; our Stewards will either wait with you whilst your driver parks the car, or will accompany you to the venue and wait inside with you.

If you have mobility issues and require any assistance simply call Box Office one day in advance. We will arrange for one of our Stewards to bring a wheelchair to the car park and assist you to the Arts Centre.

For full access information visit our website or ask for a leaflet at Box Office. Though it is not essential, you are advised to book in advance so we can readily provide any assistance.

Disabled patrons may also bring a companion free of charge. Contact Box Office for details.

Spaces reserved in Car Parks 4 and 7.

Wheelchair access at ground level to Hall, Studio Theatre, Café Bar, Box Office, Cinema, Woods-Scawen Room, Music Centre and Bookshop.

Lift access to Theatre, Theatre Bar, National Grid Room and Mead Gallery.

Guide dogs are welcomed and can be cared for during performances, by arrangement.

Receivers for our Sennheiser infra-red facility are freely available from Box Office.

Toilet facilities accessible on all levels.

This brochure is also available in large print.

Call 024 7652 4524 19

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