Although there have been many successful productions of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, the act ...

There may be reasons why Handel’s Alexander’s Feast, HWV 75 does not enjoy as many outings as some of the composer’s other oratorios, but, given the obvious brilliance of the work, they do not seem ...

It takes musical intelligence, brilliant technique, and a surety of purpose to bring off this potpourri work, but we need not ...

Freddie De Tommaso may be only in his early thirties, but the last five years have propelled him into a league many singers take decades to reach. He returns to Covent Garden this September as ...

Le nozze di Figaro is the first opera that Glyndebourne ever presented in its inaugural season in 1934, and there is no other work with which the festival has been so inextricably linked. When it ...

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – whose first concert fully open to the public in a dedicated venue was given in 1781 – claims to be the longest established continuing symphony o ...