Jetske Mijnssen’s new staging of Ariodante arrives with a clear conceptual stamp: Handel reframed as a Chekhovian family ...
The York Early Music Christmas Festival 2025 review – Helen Charlston and Yorkshire Bach Choir on the same day ...
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 ...
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 ...
RLP’s Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan leads the orchestra in a programme of music from Mexico and the USA; also featured are trumpeter Pacho Flores and percussionists from Liverpool Philharmonic ...
Mussorgsky’s unfinished, sprawling epic Khovanshchina – best translated, with a touch of irony, as “The Khovansky To-Do” – received a superb revival at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, in a performance ...
Normally when a concert is described as an evening of two halves, it implies that one was stronger than the other. In the case of The Last Night of the Proms 2025, it merely references the fact that ...