Last week’s five sold-out performances of The Magic Flute at Arcola Theatre (25 – 29 August, 2026, within the framework of the annual Grimeborn Festival, July to September) have shown how much impact such productions can make, even at small […]
Anthony Davis: The Central Park Five – Long Beach Opera 2022 (Photo: JJ Geiger) I first came across the case of the Central Park Five when I read Joan Didion’s essay Sentimental Journeys first published in the […]
Volume Two of Hélène Mercier and Louis Lortie’s series of Debussy piano duets on Chandos launches with one of the most famous openings of all, that of the Prélude de l’après-midi d’une faune, after Mallarmé, […]
St James Garlickhythe Church On Thursday 24 September at St James Garlickhythe Church in central London, pianist Christopher Glynn will perform and host an evening of live music in support of the charity Music in […]
From Opera Rara: Sunday 4 October, 4pm, The Bridgewater Hall aul Daniel, conductor | Chorus of English National Opera On Sunday 4 October, Opera Rara launches its 56th season with the UK premiere of Offenbach’s Barkouf, a biting political satire in which a […]
The Adagio from Rachmaninoff’s Symphony no. 2 performed by the Holland Park Sinfonia and conductor Jashandeep Reehal. Jashandeep Reehal, Holland Park Sinfonia19 June 2026 (Photo: Marc Tunguz) Jashandeep Reehal is a self-taught musician from Punjab, […]
This rather nice compilation of approachable, broadly “pastoral” English music released by SOMM is a delight. The music is the very definition of the disc’s subtitle, “British Light Classics”. Geoffrey Bush’s Rhapsody for clarinet and […]
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 […]
