As part of Vache Baroque’s 2026 summer opera festival they are performing a version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest based on the 1674 show produced by Thomas Betterton, what has become known as a semi-opera but which in […]
The Lammermuir Festival returns for 13 days of intimate and ambitious music-making in East Lothian from 8 to 20 September. It continues to be a festival shaped by place and by long-standing relationships, and builds […]
New Sussex Opera’s (NSO) 2026 autumn touring production will be Charpentier’s tragédie en musique David et Jonathas. In five acts and a prologue, the work was written in 1688 for the Jesuits at the Collège […]
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Franck Saurel, Liv Redpath – Glyndebourne (Photo: Bill Knight) Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Liv Redpath, Anthony León, Michael Mofidian, Julie Roset, Thomas Cilluffo, Franck Saurel, director: […]
Four worlds connected by questions of pressure, identity and the forces that shape human behaviour: The Breaking Point brings together four distinct works in a single evening of contemporary music theatre. Created by Royal Academy […]
CBSO in the City 2025 – New Street Station (Photo: Jonathan Ferro) This weekend (27-31 August) the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) goes beyond its home at Symphony Hall for five days to deliver […]
Lortzing with his friend Philipp Reger, 1844. Daguerreotypie. The year 2026 marks a double anniversary for the composer Albert Lortzing. The creator Spieloper, German comic opera, was born in Berlin 225 years ago and died […]
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde – Jamie Barton, Anja Bihlmaier, BBC PhilharmonicBBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall (Photo: BBC/Chris Cristodoulou) Bushra El-Turk: Mosaic, Haydn: Symphony No. 45 in F sharp minor, ‘Farewell’, Mahler: Das Lied von der […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Stripped back drama & strong musical values: Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos from Glyndebourne Opera at the BBC Proms")
Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos – Samantha Hankey, Alina Wunderlin, Robin Ticciati, LPO Glyndebourne Opera at BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/Chris Christodoulou) Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos; Rachel Willis-Sørensen, David Butt Philip, Alina Wunderlin, Samantha Hankey, […]
Young musicians from Brent Music Academy of which the RPO is a founding partner (Photo: Ben Wright) As teenagers across the country eagerly – or perhaps apprehensively – await their GCSE results, the Royal Philharmonic […]
