Cast:Wozzeck – Stéphane DegoutMarie – Annette DaschCaptain – Peter HoareDoctor – Brindley SherrattDrum-Major – Christopher VentrisAndres – Eirik GrøtvedtMargret – Kitty WhatelyFool – Adrian ThompsonFirst Apprentice – Callum ThorpeSecond Apprentice – Dominic Sedgwick London Voices; […]
Forum Bertarelli front entrance with glass canopy at dusk. This summer a new festival is launching in Tuscany embedded in the wine-growing area. Amiata Music is an annual festival which has evolved from the Fondazione […]
Britten’s Noyes Fludde at Orford Church In 1958, Britten premiered Noyes Fludde the archetype of community opera with its mix of amateur and professional performers using an approachable text derived from the Chester Mystery Plays. […]
Maxim Emelyanychev & Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Photo: Christopher Bowen) Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s 2026/27 season continues their profitable relationship with principal conductor Maxim Emelyanychev and his concerts with them feature Berlioz, Bach, Schnittke, Bartok, Poulenc, Faure, […]
Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida On 12 June 2016, a gunman opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The attack killed 49 people and wounded 53 others, making it one of […]
So Warner has finally decided to do something other than just aimlessly reissuing the EMI catalog over and over and over, ad nauseum, slapping their logo on each and every one, each and every time, […]
Rafael Payare, who Classical Explorer has covered in Montréal and in London, and on disc, has extended his tenure for a further five years with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM). is contract was due […]
Irene Messoloras Following on from their debut EP, Serenity (2024), and A Meridian Christmas (2025), London-based professional chamber choir Meridian, founder and director Irene Messoloras, have released their debut album on Signum Classics. Finding Light […]
London’s South Bank Centre is following up 2025’s series of multimedia events with a further sequence entitled ‘Multitudes’. While inclusivity and genre-bending can sometimes amount to little more than an excuse for ceding art music […]
Verdi: Rigoletto – Royal Opera (© ROH 2023 Photo: Tristram Kenton) Verdi: Rigoletto; Liparit Avetisyan, Robyn Allegra Parton, Hansung Yoo, director: Oliver Mears, conductor: Sir Mark Elder; Royal Opera HouseReviewed 23 April 2026 With some […]
