Scripted by Belfast-born playwright David Ireland...
Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra last seared us in Britten’s amazing Violin Concerto, with Vilde Frang as soloist, on the very...
Between bouts of that far from shabby, still shocking masterpiece Tosca, Royal Opera music director Jakub Hrůša ...
Why are the Irish such good storytellers? The historical perspective is that the oral tradition goes way, way back, allied to the gift of the gab...
Concerts need to have themes, it seems, today, and the BBC Philharmonic’s publicity suggested two contrasting ideas for the opening of its 2025-26...
The tour by the 81-year-old Mulatu Astatke which is currently under way and this album seem to be giving off different...
The remarkable The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967 represents the first-ever release of a previously...
35 years ago, persona-now-non-grata John Eliot Gardiner revealed how performances of Mozart’s Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito...
If a classic story is going to be told for the umpteenth time, there is a good bet it will come with a novel spin on it. So it proves...