Soprano Nardus Williams, lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and classicist Mary Beard in a programme of music and readings that salutes the powerful roles of women in classical antiquity, Renaissance Italy and ...

Ah, those harbingers of Spring – no, not the snowdrops, but the reminders of the opening dates for public booking from ...

Longborough Festival Opera occupies a special place in the summer opera calendar. Nestled in the Cotswolds, with glorious ...

Mark van de Wiel, Principal Clarinet of the Philharmonia for 25 years, retired from the position last year, and Thursday evening’s concert marked the occasion with not only the ...

In 1731 Handel wrote part of Act I for an opera entitled Titus L’Empereur. For reasons that are still unknown, he then abandoned it, although he reworked its Overture and two arias for his next opera ...

Lucy Crowe delivers a peerless Fiordiligi while Dinis Sousa conducts a fizzing account of Mozart’s opera about fidelity at the Coliseum ...

Barbara Hannigan’s latest appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) at the Barbican proved exactly that kind of event. The first half was devoted to one work – the UK premiere of Laura ...