Not only is The Glasshouse International Centre for Music spectacularly set on the banks of the River Tyne, with wide views of the city of Newcastle, but it houses in Sage One a superb concert hall ...

In the first few decades of the 18 th century, the chattering classes of British cities were obsessed by Italian music – enjoyment of its elegance and sophistication (with just ...

The instruments not only balanced perfectly with the voices, but gave us some delectable textures of sound – edginess from the strings; a sparkly pair of flutes accompanying the soprano duet in ...

Jetske Mijnssen’s new staging of Ariodante arrives with a clear conceptual stamp: Handel reframed as a Chekhovian family ...

The York Early Music Christmas Festival 2025 review – Helen Charlston and Yorkshire Bach Choir on the same day ...

English National Opera’s revival of HMS Pinafore promises buoyancy but quickly runs aground. Despite strong musical work and ...

It is 75 years since the Chelsea Opera Group was founded by David Cairns, Colin Davis and Stephen Gray, all students at Oxford at the time. Its longevity is brought into focus by considering that it ...

17 years on from its first outing, Christopher Alden’s surrealist staging of Partenope remains one of ENO’s most stylish and subversive Handel productions. Reimagining the Neapolitan heroine as a ...

As part of the Philharmonia’s 80th anniversary season, this performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 should have been a showcase of precision and polish. In many ways it was: Jakub Hrůša’s command of ...