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 […]
English National Opera has announced its 2026/27 season and as with the last couple of seasons the miracle is that the season exists at all. As it is, there are nine operas with six new […]
As the end of the world approaches (no, not that one – Götterdämmerung in Dresden, the final part of the Nagano Ring), time to bring out my interview with Dr Kai Hinrich Müller. I will […]
The East End Salome from Regents Opera recently complements Chandos’ releases of Salome and Elektra nicely. Salome today, Elektra to follow … Conductor Edward Gardner realises the score in vivid colours – for him, the […]
Suddenly it’s that time of year and the BBC Proms programme has been launched again. This year there are 72 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall from 17 July to 12 September 2026, with further […]
As part of the Southbank Centre’s ‘Multitudes’ festival, pairing music with works in other art forms, this concert brought together Messiaen’s mighty Turangalîla-symphonie with a new film animation by 1927 Studios. One would have thought that Messiaen’s […]
Julian Azkoul and United Strings of Europe make their Southbank debut on 9 May at the Purcell Room with send back the echo, a concert exploring marginalised voices through the stories and music of deaf […]
Edward Gardner (Photo: Jason Bell) The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) has announced its 2026/27 season at the Southbank Centre. Under the title In Search of Purpose, the season explores the human spirit’s resilience and the […]
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) and Georges Bizet (1838–1875) Bizet’s L’Arlésienne suites are well-known with some movements representing some of the composer’s most played music. Yet the original score for Alphonse Daudet’s play, from which the suites are […]
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Virtuosity & discipline: John Wilson & the Sinfonia of London in Respighi's Roman trilogy & Walton's Cello Concerto")
