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  • Henry Waddington as Lady Bracknell in suit and feathered hat stands in a dirt field with cabbages

    Review
    The Importance of Being Earnest – gloriously madcap opera achieves new heights of delirium

    Gerald Barry’s take on Wilde’s comedy is even wittier and zanier in Jack Furness’s hyperactive staging – complete with a grand piano on stilts, a herd of cows and a kangaroo that meets a grisly end
  • A silhouetted figure stands before a wall of bright orange flames and red light beams on a stage

    Tom Service on music
    double quotation markImagine a world without Wagner … it’s not easy, but let’s try

    Tom Service
  • Sir Stephen Hough sits at a grand piano with his hands clasped, smiling at the camera

    News
    Stephen Hough to lead relaunched Leeds piano competition

  • Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde in the Barbican Hall.

    Review
    Tristan und Isolde – Wagner in concert performance sees Pappano and the LSO at their finest

  • Lisette Oropesa (Elvira) and Francesco Demuro (Lord Arturo Talbo) in I Puritani by Vincenzo Bellini @ Royal Opera House. A Royal Ballet and Opera production. Directed by Richard Jones. Conducted by Riccardo Frizza. (Opening 30-06-26) ©Tristram Kenton 06-26

    Review
    I Puritani – Oropesa dazzles in Jones’s engaging Bellini staging

  • A performer in a navy tailcoat and top hat gestures energetically at a tea party table with cakes

    In pictures
    From a mad hatter’s tea-party to Tosca and young talent: Opera Holland Park at 30

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  • A scene from Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten @ Glyndebourne. Conductor, Nicholas Carter. Director, Michael Grandage. Revival Director, Ian Rutherford. Designer, Christopher Oram. Lighting Designer, Paule Constable. (Opening 28-06-26) ©Tristram Kenton 06-26

    Glyndebourne review
    Billy Budd – Clayton’s Vere is the devastating heart of vivid staging

  • Kazuki Conducts Harmonium, featuring the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, at the Symphony Hall, 4th July 2026. Kazuki Yamada, conductor, Janai Brugger, soprano, and the CBSO Chorus

    Kazuki conducts Harmonium review – John Adams’ wild ride centres an elegant showcase of US composers

  • Two women play violins while reading from music stands in a performance setting

    Seasonal Quartet: Ali Smith and New European Ensemble review – words and music connect

  • Leon Bosch (double bass) leads the Ubuntu Ensemble at Wigmore Hall, London.

    Ubuntu Ensemble review – charged musical snapshots of South Africa’s struggle

  • Cellist Steven Isserlis looks up at conductor Maxim Emelyanychev during an orchestral performancePhoto by Mark Allan

    Brahms’ Last Concert review – OAE and Emelyanychev take audience back to 1897

  • Soprano Katharina Konradi pictured in front of a beige background wearing a black pillbox hat

    Mahler: Songs of Youth and Awakening album review – exuberance and intensity from fine cast of singers

  • Sueye Park in a white lace top holds a violin, facing the camera against a dark background

    Sueye Park: Goldmark and Sibelius album review – Korean violinist’s silvery tone is ideal for Goldmark rarity

  • Gil Shaham stands holding his violin

    Coleridge-Taylor and Dvořák Violin Concertos album review – shrewd pairing, with Gil Shaham fluid and imposing

  • Anne Sofie von Otter.

    Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! Kabarett und Exil album review – Anne Sofie von Otter turns to cabaret

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  • Stephen Hough sits at a grand piano with sheet music open in his studio

    Dazzling, delightful – and unfairly dismissed: Stephen Hough on the art of the transcription

  • Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Glasgow City Halls - 22 September 2022 –

    Interview
    Mentors, muses and new music: conductor and composer Ryan Wigglesworth

  • Composer and viola player Sally Beamish portrait, Brighton, 14 July 2025

    ‘My diagnosis was a blessing’: composer Sally Beamish on tackling the condition that ruined every joyful memory

  • Daniel Harding holds a baton mid-gesture while conducting, with sheet music on a stand

    News
    Los Angeles Philharmonic announces Daniel Harding as next music director

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  • Dancer Thulani Chauke warming up before the dress rehearsal of L’Orfeo by Monteverdi @ Glyndebourne. Directed by William Kentridge. Conductor, Jonathan Cohen. With the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Choreographer, Gregory Maqoma. Set Designer, Sabine Theunissen. Costume Designer, Greta Goiris. Lighting Designer, Urs Schönebaum. Video Designer, Janus Fouché. L’Orfeo is a co-production between Glyndebourne, the Metropolitan Opera and Greek National Opera. (Opening 14-06-26) ©Tristram Kenton 06-26

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