CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Harrison Birtwistle's secret opera, King Lear ?  Dementia is not madness but the last flaring up of a brave soul, raging that th...

Shakespeare re-imagined for the very Late Baroque, with Bampton Classical Opera at St John's Smith Square.  "Shakespeare, Shak...

Florent Schmitt's Antony and Cleopatra (Suites no 1 and 2, Op 69, 1920)  with Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, w...

At Glyndebourne, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream ,  in a performance so good that it was the highlight of the whole season, ...

English Baroque opera at St John's , Smith Square, ready for booking now.  The English baroque style is unique, more "classical...

Perceptions of  Hector Berlioz Roméo et Juliette  (Op17 1839) have been shaped by performance practice filtered through recordings, which...

Gioachino Rossini's opera Otello   broadcast here on BBC Radio 3 - very different to Verdi's Otello and, indeed to Shakespeare...

Choral songs from Shakespeare in a concert by the West Deutsche Rundfunk Radio Chorus, Cologne; conducted by Stefan Parkman, pictured ...

Shakepeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona became 一剪梅 (One Spray of Plum Blossom) in Shanghai in 1931. The Chinese film industry was very ...

Shakespeare Lives! The BBC Shakespeare 400 celebrations are called "Shakespeare Lives!" for a good reason, demonstrated by thi...

James Cagney in Shakespeare? And Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland and Dick Powell too, in  A Midsummer Night's Dream , the movie...

This new recording of works by Gerald Finzi is not "Finzi for Beginners". Its virtues will be lost on those who don't actua...

John Tomlinson, Philip Langridge.  Felicity Palmer, Elise Ross and David Wilson-Johnson. the greatest English singers of their time, all...

At the Wigmore Hall, the London premiere of a major new work by Howard Skempton, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with Roderick William...

From Somm Recordings, the first of a projected series of songs by Hubert Parry: Twelve Sets of English Lyrics and other songs. This ser...

For the 400th anniversary of his death next year, William Shakespeare will be celebrated in the beautiful country house setting of the ...

Thrilling 2015 and 2016 for Garsington Opera at Wormsley, showing how it's maturing, and developing a unique niche in the British ...

The first movie based on Shakepeare, 1899. Normally, we see only stills and read contemporary reports, but we don't often get a chanc...

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre isn't the original Elzabethan Globe theatre but a 1997 recreation,  geared to the international marke...

Not Shakespeare, not Mendelssohn but Hollywood's Midsummer Night's Dream . Great play, great music and the hottest stars of the d...