Classical highlights: concerts and opera to watch in May

As the UK emerges from lockdown and live performances return, we pick this month’s both live and streamed musical highlights

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The Royal Opera House makes a belated contribution to the last year’s proliferation of specially conceived online music-theatre pieces, with eight free to view “experimental experiences”. Among them are a guided “listening experience” exploring our relationship with the moon, a web-based “interactive opera experience” featuring music by Brian Irvine, as well as more conventional fusions of words, music and images, some of them convincing, some less so. The music ranges from Handel, Catalani and Tchaikovsky to Anna Meredith and Matt Huxley.
• Available on demand until 30 May

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from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3e6fBv9