You can always rely on the Ryedale Festival to come up with inventive and engaging ideas, so it was no surprise that, not content with the hugely successful Summer Festival in July, they have now ...

Christopher Alden’s surrealist staging of Partenope remains one of ENO’s most stylish and subversive Handel productions.

Walton’s instrumental scoring is waywardly of its time – picked, one assumes, for timbral impression more than blend, it’s ...

Inspired by a painting by Ben Edge depicting an ancient Dolmen threatened by a devil, composer and writer Isabella Gellis ...

Jakub Hrůša’s command of Mahler’s complex structure remained formidable, his balancing of sonorities and long lines ...

Simon Rattle’s appearances at the Barbican are always an event, but this one carried a particular charge: his first London ...

Thursday evening at Smith Square Hall (the home of Sinfonia Smith Square) opened with an introduction by Iestyn Davies, Artistic Director of the London Festival of Baroque Music, finessing a programme ...

Specialist Baroque group Spiritato work their usual magic with works by Fasch, Graupner and J S Bach in another concert from The London Baroque Festival. The ensemble enjoy championing little-known ...

This Philharmonia concert – dedicated to the late Christoph von Dohnányi – proved an unforgettable tribute, pairing the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde with Strauss’ Four Last ...

Janáček’s knotty operatic masterpiece has finally arrived at the Royal Opera House – and for that we should be thankful. The Makropulos Case isn’t performed that often, partly because it’s such a ...

Dominic Wheeler, Head of Opera Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the conductor of this double bill, is often asked how they choose what repertoire to perform. His answer is that ...