Simon Mundy
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- Sep 15, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Independent
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- Aug 7, 2026
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BBC Proms from a distance: Turn the popular focus back to art, not the flags (opens the original)
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BBC Radio 3 trumpets the Proms as “the greatest classical music festival in the world”. In its 131st year since the series was started in the Queen's Hall by manager Robert Newman and the conductor Henry Wood, it is a claim hard to argue against. The BBC took over the management and the risk in 1927, when Newman could not continue, and moved concerts into the Royal Albert Hall after the Queen's Hall (ironically right next to Broadcasting House) was bombed in the Blitz. These days, when the BBC i
The Savonlinna Opera Festival boasts breathtaking views and a soprano at her peak (opens the original)
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Even the Finns have to journey with purpose to get to the Savonlinna Opera Festival, which has been going strong for well over 100 years. There are Londoners who think that the trip down to East Sussex to Glyndebourne is a major outing, but Savonlinna requires a four hour train journey north-east from Helsinki: an intercity train followed by one of those two-carriage local things that trundle for the final leg through forests of pine and birch, with the occasional glimpse of lakes. On the way th
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