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 ...

You can always rely on the Ryedale Festival to come up with inventive and engaging ideas, so it was no surprise that, not ...

Garsington Opera’s new production of Handel’s Rodelinda has it all – it’s a feast of glorious singing, brilliant production and the most accomplished orchestral performance you could ever hope to hear ...

Normally when a concert is described as an evening of two halves, it implies that one was stronger than the other. In the case of The Last Night of the Proms 2025, it merely references the fact that ...

17 th and 18 th century jácaras and villancicos from Cantoría, one of Spain’s leading early-music ensembles. “…what was delivered was a deliciously entertaining tour de force in which rumbustiousness, ...