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 ...

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. Reimagining the Neapolitan heroine as a 1920s salon hostess surrounded by ...

Marin Alsop conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Walton’s Façade and a revised version of Laura Karpman’s opera Balls at Royal Festival Hall. Marin Alsop, with her usual brisk, economic style ...

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 ...