The Grange Festival, set in idyllic grounds featuring sweeping views, ancient cedar trees and a stunning lake, represents the ...

Swedish soprano Elisabet Strid has become one of the most compelling Wagnerian voices of her generation. A regular presence ...

Ina Boyle (1889–1967), despite having written music in a wide range of genres (opera, ballet, chamber music, orchestral music ...

Soprano Nardus Williams, lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and classicist Mary Beard in a programme of music and readings that salutes the powerful roles of women in classical antiquity, Renaissance Italy and ...

In 1731 Handel wrote part of Act I for an opera entitled Titus L’Empereur. For reasons that are still unknown, he then abandoned it, although he reworked its Overture and two arias for his next opera ...

Barbara Hannigan’s latest appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) at the Barbican proved exactly that kind of event. The first half was devoted to one work – the UK premiere of Laura ...

Mark van de Wiel, Principal Clarinet of the Philharmonia for 25 years, retired from the position last year, and Thursday evening’s concert marked the occasion with not only the ...