Hope begins to fade with lack of a rescue package; without it, even flagships like the Royal Opera House will not be able to open at all in September. Meanwhile the BBC Proms are planned in a very ...

Think opera is all velvet curtains, impossibly expensive tickets and stories you vaguely remember from school? Think again.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few ...

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.” The opening words of Macbeth’s famous soliloquy come to life this weekend as three performances of a combined opera, ballet and classical music production based ...

Why do we focus on the bad news stories about cuts and crises in classical music ? Musicians are doing incredible things to engage, support and sustain us; we should tell those stories too When did ...

Bampton Classical Opera deserves huge praise for putting on this new Mozart opera during the much-publicised 250th anniversary year of Mozart’s birth. Indeed, I would be hard pressed to think of any ...

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 ...

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For anyone who still thinks of Antonio Vivaldi simply as the composer of The Four Seasons, it may come as a shock to learn not only that the manuscripts of over 450 of his other works are currently ...