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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Glyndebourne’s Autumn Season 2025 includes its first ever commission from British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. Stephen Langridge’s production of The Railway Children, which has a libretto by Rachael ...

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 ...

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 ...