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The 2025 New Year’s Concert in Guangzhou

Poster for the National Symphony Orchestra’s 2025 New Year’s Concert at the Guangdong Art Theatre, Guangzhou: Paul Bateman conducting, with the soprano Annette Wardell.
Concert poster supplied by the orchestra

On 29 December 2024 the National Symphony Orchestra gave its 2025 New Year’s Concert at the Guangdong Art Theatre in Guangzhou, conducted by Paul Bateman, with the soprano Annette Wardell.

The programme opened with Glinka’s overture to Ruslan and Ludmila and ran through Johann Strauss’s overture to Die Fledermaus and the Thunder and Lightning Polka to The Blue Danube, with opera, operetta and musicals between: Puccini’s “O mio babbino caro”, music from Lehár’s Gypsy Love, and songs from My Fair Lady.

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