Lisette Oropesa in the title role and Emily d’Angelo as Ruggiero in Alcina/ Photo: Ian Hippolyte Royal Opera/David Bates Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 15 September 2026 Like the Venus flytrap in h...

Floréz may have taken a couple of revivals off, but now the Peruvian tenor is back to reclaim the role

“WHEN I GET SAD, I sing. If I’m angry, I sing. Music is a safe space – it’s where I feel seen, heard, loved. It’s the space where my heart is most open, where

With all due respect to the fabulous vocal line-up, it was Mäkelä and the orchestra who earned the evening’s instant standing ovation

Cogitore has no place for charm, essentially robbing Mozart’s Flûte enchantée of its magic

Adams’ maximal minimalism was framed by Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Joan Tower’s parallel feminist statement, with Florence Price’s The Heart of A Woman adding a Broadway flourish

Lisette Oropesa as Elvira in Bellini’s ‘I puritani’. Photo: Tristram Kenton Verdi’s Il trovatore is said to need only the four best singers in the world, but pretty much the same goes for the earlier ...

The warrior women gallop through the Englische Garten in Tobias Kratzer's new production of Die Walküre. Plus this week’s roundup with Ruth Gipps, a musical novel and Sundaynightis

The crew of the Indomitable, at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Photo: Tristram Kenton Nelson’s flagship,Victory, and the stage at Glyndebourne measure about the same, port to starboard – roughly 15 metr...

With a punkish, antifascist take on the trad jazz sound of Duke Ellington, this noisy outfit are epic in every way. But how on earth do they make a living?

Covent Garden hat nach langer Zeit erstmals wieder I puritani im Programm. Kernaussage von Regisseur Richard Jones scheint dabei zu sein: Krieg ist universell. Aber reicht das, um die Oper zu tragen? ...

Members of the Glyndebourne Chorus, Prosdocimo (Matteo Mancini), Girlfriend (Anna-Marie Sullivan) and Donna Fiorilla (Elena Villalón). Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: ASH Rossini Il Turco in Ital...

Peter Mycroft, LSO, Sir Simon Rattle performing Gerhard’s Collages Photo (c) Mark Allan Lucy Crowe, soprano; Peter Mycroft, tape electronics; London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle Barbican Conc...

The Monteverdi Choir’s account of Purcell’s opera was delivered with devastating clarity, but it was somewhat smothered beneath a 200ft ship’s hull

The Stockholm-based chamber ensemble, led by violinist Hugo Ticciati, brought a programme that linked Auerbach and Janáček to Golijov – with clarinettist Christoffer Sundqvist the hypnotic soloist - a...

The agonies and (occasional) ecstasies of writing biography, and the differences between doing this 30 years ago and in the none-too-sunny 2020s

This revival at the Royal Opera House is a full-circle moment for Mark Elder, who first conducted the opera here in 1976. His experience shows in spades

Directors have long grappled with shaking off Nazi connotations - can a new Royal Opera production succeed?

Kosky and Pappano continue to forge a magnificent Ring

Meister is a dynamic Wagnerian, propelling the drama, but also has an ideal sense of poise

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Oxford Bach Choir and a fine quartet of soloists made the case for Elgar’s oratorio

South African soprano Rangwanasha proved she is the real deal in a performance of Strauss’s Four Last Songs that’s let down by the RPO’s oddly pinched, poorly tuned backing

The group reimagines Corsica’s ancient music for modern female voices with fresh spiky arrangements that remain heavy with the pain of the past

Vikingur Ólafsson and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen cast a spell with the new work and a dazzling performance of Daphnis et Chloé

Second day, second post (should have been first)

The pianist’s recital was a masterful essay in sound where the Hungarian composer’s short piano works were woven into and out of Debussy, Liszt and Bach

A review of Opera North's 2026 revival of Phyllida Lloyd's classic 2006 staging of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes.

Kenneth Kellogg, Rosie Aldridge, Mark Le Brocq, ENO’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny © Tristram Kenton 2026 Weill: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ENO / André de Ridder The Coliseum...

Trying to brighten up February…

This is my first post here - and it's all about Kurt Weill, who to me is the composer of the moment. Here is a longer version of my article that appeared in the Sunday Times on 15 February.

The London Symphony Orchestra’s Olivier Stankiewicz was the soloist for the premiere of Colin Matthews’s oboe concerto; Rachmaninov and Bartók followed, with Chan compelling and clear