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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Thursday evening at Smith Square Hall (the home of Sinfonia Smith Square) opened with an introduction by Iestyn Davies, Artistic Director of the London Festival of Baroque Music, finessing a programme ...

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 ...

This Philharmonia concert – dedicated to the late Christoph von Dohnányi – proved an unforgettable tribute, pairing the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde with Strauss’ Four Last ...