English National Opera’s revival of HMS Pinafore promises buoyancy but quickly runs aground. Despite strong musical work and ...

It is 75 years since the Chelsea Opera Group was founded by David Cairns, Colin Davis and Stephen Gray, all students at Oxford at the time. Its longevity is brought into focus by considering that it ...

You can always rely on the Ryedale Festival to come up with inventive and engaging ideas, so it was no surprise that, not ...

Christopher Alden’s surrealist staging of Partenope remains one of ENO’s most stylish and subversive Handel productions. Reimagining the Neapolitan heroine as a 1920s salon hostess surrounded by ...

Walton’s instrumental scoring is waywardly of its time – picked, one assumes, for timbral impression more than blend, it’s the love child of a palm court orchestra and a cabaret band – but Alsop ...

As part of the Philharmonia’s 80th anniversary season, this performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 should have been a showcase of precision and polish. In many ways it was: Jakub Hrůša’s command of ...

It’s never easy to bring ancient folkloric traditions to the stage, especially when their narrative is challenging, but with two ever-innovative companies involved, together with singing by some of ...

Simon Rattle’s appearances at the Barbican are always an event, but this one carried a particular charge: his first London outing with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) since taking over as ...

London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Community Voices are joined by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir for a powerful evening of Spirituals and Gospel. A big celebration of Gospel music has become an annual ...

English National Opera’s (ENO) new production of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking is a towering achievement – musically, dramatically and emotionally. Directed by Annilese Miskimmon ...