Entitled Fire & Ice, the magnificence of Vincenzo Gonzaga’s court at Mantua was obliquely conjured in an hour-long programme ...

Angela Brower steals the crown in the final instalment of Jetske Mijnssen’s Donizetti trilogy with a voice of apparently ...

Katie Mitchell's provocative staging is revived to great effect, elevated by glorious music-making led by Nadine Sierra's ...

Led by Andris Nelsons, together with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Shostakovich festival ...

As summer approaches (hopefully!), we take a look at the increasingly competitive array of UK summer opera festivals – and ...

A traditional staging by Romain Gilbert is welcomed at the Teatro di San Carlo, with a glittering line-up of soloists.

Doing justice to the vast scale of Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand" is itself the mightiest of tasks. Semyon Bychkov and his ...

Dramaturg Aleš Březina explores Bohuslav Martinů’s unique operatic forey into the world of dreams, which combined avant garde ...

Franz Liszt and Manfred Honeck take us to the gates of Hell and back, while pianist Leif Ove Andsnes delivers  poetry and ...

With all soloists demonstrating charming ornamentation, a wonderful sense of fun and ease pervades the APO's performance.

Martha Graham Dance Company never disappoints. Especially good is her version of The Rite of Spring with Stravinsky's score ...

There is something peculiarly Russian about the capacity for suffering as exemplified in the music of Shostakovich and ...