Classical Music Reviews
A new organ, Gavin Higgins as the Festival’s inaugural Associate Composer, & celebrating Elgar: Three Choirs Festival at Gloucester in 2026
Three Choirs Festival at Gloucester Cathedral (Photo: Michael Whitefoot) The Three Choirs Festival, this year at Gloucester, takes place from 25 July to 1 August 2026, curated by Adrian Partington who is director of music […]
Planet Hugill featured at no. 3 on FeedSpot 60 Best Opera Blogs to Follow in 2026
I am never really sure about lists of things, the Top 50 Best whatevers. However, finding out that you are in such a list is terribly seductive, even if you wonder how the list has […]
Not so much Verismo: Eleanor Burke’s somewhat abstract staging of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci for English Touring Opera provides a fine setting for Ronald Samm’s powerful performance as Canio
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci – Harry Grigg, Matthew Siveter, Ronald Samm – English Touring Opera (Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith) Leoncavallo: Pagliacci; Ronald Samm, Paula Sides, Matthew Siveter, director: Eleanor Burke, conductor: Gerry Cornelius; English Touring Opera […]
Nagano’s eye-opening Mahler
Hildegard of Bingen O vis aeternitatis Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection’ (1888-94) Kent Nagano (conductor); Jane Archibald (soprano); Christina Bock (mezzo); Phiharmonia Chorus & Orchestra Royal Festival Hall, London , 19 March […]
Classical Music News
ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA’S JENNY MOLLICA APPOINTED TO LEAD THE ROUNDHOUSE
The announcement was made today that Jenny Mollica, Chief Executive of English National Opera (ENO), has been appointed the new CEO of the Roundhouse. She will step down from her current role in summer 2026. […]
ENO LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL SEARCH FOR NEXT MACKERRAS FELLOW AS PART OF CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
English National Opera (ENO) today celebrates the centenary of the birth of Sir Charles Mackerras by opening applications for the next ENO Mackerras Fellowship – the first to take place under the company’s new Music […]
Houston Grand Opera Nominated for 2026 GRAMMY Award for Intelligence
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s company-commissioned 2023 world premiere opera receives nomination for Best Opera RecordingAlbum represents first release from the new Houston Grand Opera label, created with London Symphony Orchestra’s label LSO Live HOUSTON—November 7, […]
Just in: Berlin Philharmonic blasts the Belgians
Statement by the board of the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation on the withdrawal of the invitation from the Flanders Festival Ghent to Lahav Shani, Lisa Batiashvili and the Munich Philharmonic “It was with great dismay and incomprehension […]
