Reading Time: 2 minutes“This wasn’t just a birthday concert. It was a powerful tribute, beautifully performed, thoughtfully curated, and deeply moving” Walking into the Sheldonian Theatre on Tuesday 11 November, I knew little about Arvo Pärt beyond the fact that…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA universally resonant revival of a timeless classic Puccini’s ‘La Bohème’ – one of the most well-known and frequently performed works in the entire operatic repertoire – is the latest production by Opera North to grace the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis wasn’t just a birthday concert. It was a powerful tribute, beautifully performed, thoughtfully curated, and deeply moving Walking into the Sheldonian Theatre on Tuesday 11 November, I knew little about Arvo Pärt beyond the fact that…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Hive is an innovative new opera which casts a lens across the world of female serial killers through a hypothetical case study created from the real research of writer Carole Hayman.
Reading Time: 2 minutesJohn Wilson Conducts The Academy Symphony Orchestra with immense youthfulness
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Psychedelic Furs at the Royal Albert Hall put on a genuinely strong show that felt both nostalgic and current at the same time.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe BBC Philharmonic Orchestra’s Moving Pictures at The Bridgewater Hall was an atmospheric and evocative celebration of some of the very best 21st-century film scores.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down with Tom Richardson, one of the composers of a new soundtrack created to be played alongside Battleship Potemkin. Written in 2017 for Plymouth’s eclectic The Pit Orchestra, the company will revive this landmark work this December with a special film-with-live-orchestra performance in celebration of the centenary of what is considered one of the greatest films ever created, Battleship Potemkin.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis autumn sees the debut of English National Opera in Greater Manchester, marking the beginning of the company’s highly anticipated artistic work in the region.
ENO presents a vibrant new production of Britten’s much-loved coming-of-age comedy, Albert Herring — a funny and quirky opera that’s certain to set curtains twitching and tongues wagging.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe spectacle of classical music was on full display as Roderick Cox led The Academy Symphony Orchestra in a double-bill of Beethoven's Symphony No 5 in C Minor and Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.