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

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...

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...

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...

In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

Albert Herring is a subversive portrait of stuffy postwar England

Read our review of Oum – A Son’s Quest for His Mother at London's Barbican Hall. Bushra El-Turk and Wout van Tongeren’s opera is never less than engrossing

Love at first song: Deepa Johnny, Aaron Godfrey Mayes, ENO’s Cinderella (La Cenerentola) 2025 © Mark Douet-X4 ENO / Yi-Chen Lin The Coliseum, London, September 27, 2025 Despite its faults, La Cenerent...

Robin Norton-Hale’s intense production for English Touring Opera is a fine ambassador for Benjamin Britten’s ‘problem child’

Read our review of The Rape of Lucretia: Robin Norton-Hale’s new production for English Touring Opera pulls the audience close

By Fiona Hook Cuore Orchestra / William Dutton, Oxana Shevchenko, piano Royal Hall, Harrogate, Saturday 27 September 2025 Back in March, conductor William Dutton began to fulfil his apparently crazy d...

Jessica Duchen, author of Myra Hess – National Treasure, joins forces with the award-winning pianist Lara Melda to tell the inspiring story of Myra Hess and her wartime National Gallery Concerts in wo...

Half man, half machine, George Frideric Handel broke off in the autumn of 1736 from the composition of Giustino, three weeks in, to write Alcina, then went back to finish Giustino in five days. Within...

Marie Jacquot makes a splendid Royal Opera House debut conducting a wonderful cast in this delightful Mozart revival

Niamh O’Sullivan, ENO’s Soldier Chorus, Carmen production photo taken on October 6 2025 at ENO, London Coliseum, © Ellie Kurttz ENO / Clelia Cafiero The Coliseum, London, October 8, 2025 Calixto Bieit...

Gavin Dixon explores the powerful music of this poetic modernist

More than 80 leading figures from across Britain’s musical landscape came together at the sparkling Critics’ Circle Music Awards, held at the London Coliseum, a ceremony that honoured musicians who ma...

More than 80 leading figures from across Britain’s musical landscape came together at the sparkling Critics’ Circle Music Awards, held at the London Coliseum, a ceremony that honoured musicians who ma...

On IMPRESSIONS OF SPAIN from Navona Records, the critically acclaimed guitar trio enchants and excites with their performance of Spanish-influenced works from master composers of the late 19th and ear...

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The language and style of British Conservatism is now taken directly from the fact-free world of online conspiracy, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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