Here’s what happened when I tried to get a copy of her uncollected letters. Consider it a parable about money and the state of literary culture

The BBC's annual classical jamboree is launched in fine style with a premiere and a timely revival, conducted by Sakari Oramo.

Simple solutions prove the best in Beethoven's "problem" opera as John Cox's staging is revived at Garsington.

Simple solutions prove the best in Beethoven's "problem" opera as John Cox's staging is revived at Garsington.

Lorena Mărginean is a hauntingly youthful heroine in a production of traditional values and vices.

'Thoughtful storytelling and first-class singing set the tone for a festival of operatic ambition'

Compelling singers carry the day in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's first staging of Wagner’s swansong.

Compelling singers carry the day in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's first staging of Wagner’s swansong.

Over ten years in the planning, the Schumann Quartett make an emotional return to Tokyo to perform their first ever complete Beethoven string quartet cycle, at Suntory Hall this June.