Stephen Langridge’s production of The Railway Children, which has a libretto by Rachael Hewer, premiered in East Sussex on 30 October, and just over a week later a semi-staged version came to the ...

It’s not often the stage at Barbican Hall is too small to fit the works programmed, but Sunday evening saw around half of the stalls filled with members of the LSO Community Voi ...

English National Opera’s (ENO) new production of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking is a towering achievement – musically, dramatically and emotionally. Directed by Annilese Miskimmon ...

Specialist Baroque group Spiritato work their usual magic with works by Fasch, Graupner and J S Bach in another concert from The London Baroque Festival. The ensemble enjoy championing little-known ...

Thursday evening at Smith Square Hall (the home of Sinfonia Smith Square) opened with an introduction by Iestyn Davies, Artistic Director of the London Festival of Baroque Music, finessing a programme ...

Philharmonia Orchestra review – Thomas Søndergård conducts Wagner, Strauss and Tchaikovsky at the Royal Festival Hall ...

Janáček’s knotty operatic masterpiece has finally arrived at the Royal Opera House – and for that we should be thankful. The Makropulos Case isn’t performed that often, partly because it’s such a ...

Dominic Wheeler, Head of Opera Studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the conductor of this double bill, is often asked how they choose what repertoire to perform. His answer is that ...

Mussorgsky’s unfinished, sprawling epic Khovanshchina – best translated, with a touch of irony, as “The Khovansky To-Do” – received a superb revival at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, in a performance ...

When tenor Sean Panikkar returns to Covent Garden this month for Janáček’s The Makropulos Case, he brings a blend of intellect, discipline and quiet curiosity that feels tailor-made for Katie Mitchell ...

Musically, it’s hard to imagine a finer Tristan und Isolde than the one that opened at the Deutsche Oper on Saturday. Dramatically, however, it’s a very different story. Michael Thalheimer’s staging, ...

This was the last night of Phyllida Lloyd’s classic production of Puccini’s tearjerker – now it goes on tour to Newcastle’s Theatre Royal, Salford Quay’s Lowry and Nottingham’s Theatre Royal. If ...