Interior of Santa Fe Opera Theatre Next week we fly off to the USA for a visit to the Santa Fe Opera. The season runs from 29 June to th...

St Mary's West Malling, (photo Hywel Williams) Thomas Kemp's Music@Malling  festival takes place from 27 to 30 September in venu...

An upper room in a pub isn't the place that you would normally expect to come across the world premiere run of a new opera. But the en...

My review of the new recording of Handel's incidental music to Tobias Smollett's play Alceste , from Christian Curnyn and his Early ...

As mentioned in an earlier post, Avid Technologies (which now owns Sibelius) has announced its intention to close the Finsbury Park office w...

Frieze detail from showing Queen Victoria in front of the 1851 Great Exhibition. London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has had two pi...

Chabrier's Le Roi malgre lui has always rather reminded me of Bernstein's Candide . A work admired for its music but which struggl...

Last night, 25 July, we heard a private rental last night by violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cedric Tiberghien. They are coming to th...

Florence Easton in Gianni Schicchi The English soprano, Florence Easton (1882 - 1955), has come up in conversation a bit recently. In m...

Herne Hill junction Your chance to see this blogger and composer as performer as my ensemble, the FifteenB Consort , are performing at t...

www.panufnik.com  has just been launched, in preparation for centenary of the composer's birth in 2014. The site includes recorded sampl...

Winslow Hall This week sees performances by Stowe Opera of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro  at Winslow Hall in Buckinghamshire. Perf...

Today you can catch Ann Dudley's opera The Owl and the Pussycat, to a libretto by Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame). The opera is pro...

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has just announced that it is changing the structure of its Board. The orchestra is player owned; the sh...

As part of their Olympic festival, St. Bride’s Church, Fleet Street , London , mounted an enterprising concert encompassing all five of ...

I caught the second Proms Chamber Music concert, 23 July, on Radio 3 broadcast live from the Cadogan Hall. In it, the chamber choir, ...

The International Olympic Committee was treated last night, 23 July, to a private gala at the Royal Opera House. The event started with a ...

Having been intrigued earlier this year by an arts festival in Skegness (Lincolnshire), I was pleased to note that Ashley Wass's Lincoln...

The first performance in London for 50 years of Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet  takes place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday ...

I see from this month's Opera Magazine  that Opera North will be giving complete cycles of their semi-staged Ring cycle in 2015, includi...