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 ...

Christopher Alden’s surrealist staging of Partenope remains one of ENO’s most stylish and subversive Handel productions. Reimagining the Neapolitan heroine as a 1920s salon hostess surrounded by ...

Walton’s instrumental scoring is waywardly of its time – picked, one assumes, for timbral impression more than blend, it’s the love child of a palm court orchestra and a cabaret band – but Alsop ...

Inspired by a painting by Ben Edge depicting an ancient Dolmen threatened by a devil, composer and writer Isabella Gellis ...

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, ...

London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Community Voices are joined by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir for a powerful evening of Spirituals and Gospel. A big celebration of Gospel music has become an annual ...

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 ...

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 ...

Keats’ ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ is upon us, heralded, as it is every year, by the end of the BBC Proms, Britain’s most enduring summer musical festival (it began in 1895, and has been ...