The busy mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti has made a career out of versatility: “I think generally people should not do only one ...

Donnacha Dennehy, ‘Land of Winter’; Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, conductor (Nonesuch) How do you compose light? That was the task that the Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy took on in writing “Land ...

If you have never heard of the author, there’s a reason: as revealed at this year’s Bloody Scotland crime writing festival in September, Evelyn Clarke is the pseudonym for a collaborative project by ...

Hosted by chamber ensemble North Shore Voices, the monthly live music pop-up event features anything from baroque arias to ...

Turnage’s operatic work may have been uneven over the years, but his radical adaptation with Lee Hall of Thomas Vinterberg’s first Dogma 95 film, integrating a magnificent role for the Royal Opera ...

Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars.

Sitt Opera has wrapped up the year on a triumphant note after a series of critically acclaimed concerts that have cemented its influence in South Africa’s classical and operatic space. Building on ...

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

The George and Nora London Foundation Competition for American and Canadian opera singers will hold its 54th event in 2026, ...

Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House swept all before it, but there was plenty of extraordinary new music, exhilarating performances and triumphs of talent, commitment and resourcefulness across ...

If you’re holding your breath awaiting the end of the compact-disc era, don’t exhale quite yet. Because, yes, there’s more. Believe it or not, the great conductors of the past (to say nothing of ...

DUBAI – Opera Ballo recorded his fifth win and a first Group success, beating stablemate and four-time Group 1 winner Nations Pride in the 850,000 dirhams (S$299,000) Group 2 Al Rashidiya (1,800m) at ...