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

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

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

English National Opera’s (ENO) new production of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking is a towering ...

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

It’s not often the stage at Barbican Hall is too small to fit the works programmed, but Sunday evening saw around half of the ...

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

Stephen Langridge’s production of The Railway Children, which has a libretto by Rachael Hewer, premiered in East Sussex on 30 ...

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 ...

Thursday evening at Smith Square Hall (the home of Sinfonia Smith Square) opened with an introduction by Iestyn Davies, ...

Specialist Baroque group Spiritato work their usual magic with works by Fasch, Graupner and J S Bach in another concert from ...

17 th and 18 th century jácaras and villancicos from Cantoría, one of Spain’s leading early-music ensembles. “…what was delivered was a deliciously entertaining tour de force in which rumbustiousness, ...