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Asked to name any conductor outside the UK and the chances are you’ll head straight to Finland for an answer. Twenty-six-year-old Tarmo Peltokoski has been at
It’s been a year of firsts as far as Tosca is concerned: the Royal Opera House having begun the present season back in September with its first new production
Last year the BPO released one of their luxury SACD boxes featuring Karajan and the orchestra live covering the 50s and 60s
This delightful recital contains a selection of Bach’s arrangements/transformations of his own and a couple of other composers works, where Alexandra
These releases showcase largely unknown twentieth century string quartets from two very different traditions, which in terms of their non-confrontational
A curious programme with which to bring down the curtain on a successful season. Vasily Petrenko began with one of his well-intended homilies, promising us an
Audience members had come from far and wide, making a kind of pilgrimage to this unlikely, austerely magical venue set in the Hampshire countryside. In recent
The elements were no less a presence in the final concert of this week-long festival and provided the thematic ‘glue’ to an otherwise seemingly unrelated
Jennifer Higdon’s six-minute Fiery Red forms the second part of her two movement Piano Trio (a 2003 commission) and continues her preoccupation as to whether
Once again, Laura Rickard curated this week-long festival of a dozen or so events, this year turning her attention to the elements: earth, air, fire and
Like a breath of bracing Yorkshire air, Northern Ballet’s brand-new Gentleman Jack swept into Sadler’s Wells, bringing a truly refreshing new narrative to the
Cuban ballet superstar-turned company director Carlos Acosta brings his second production of Marius Petipa and Ludwig Minkus’ Spanish romp Don Quixote to
Arnold Bax’s lavishly scored Tintagel was inspired by a holiday romance with pianist Harriet Cohen whilst visiting the north Cornish coast in 1917.
London’s South Bank Centre is following up 2025’s series of multimedia events with a further sequence entitled ‘Multitudes’. While inclusivity and
As part of the Southbank Centre’s ‘Multitudes’ festival, pairing music with works in other art forms, this concert brought together Messiaen’s
Royal Albert Hall, London and venues nationwide 17 July – 12 September 2026
Advance publicity promised not only ‘Sibelius in the raw’ but also ‘one of modern Finland’s most original young voices’. One wonders whether Lotta Wennäkoski
Palm Beach Opera began its 2026 season with a stellar production of La bohème, featuring an outstanding cast, director Peter
The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players’ winter ‘mini season’ opened with a thoroughly charming performance of H.M.S. Pinafore, the
English National Opera (ENO) today celebrates the centenary of the birth of Sir Charles Mackerras by opening applications for the next ENO Mackerras