CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Anyone within reach of London should try to make the FREE South Bank early evening concert on Sunday - Gérard Grisey's Quatre Chants p...

Please read this article " Why I am sorely disillusioned by Gergiev" on the blo g On an overgrown Path which you can click on via ...

"Between most and least, between man and beast, ...next to nothing". As the Minotaur dies, the small boy within the monstrous fra...

Shell shocked still by news of the death of Richard Hickox. In tribute the ENO is going ahead with RVW's Riders to Sea, which was meant ...

We now know that J Edgar Hoover, Head of the FBI, was politically regressive, deeply in the closet and vicious about it. He stood for ev...

Bruce Hodges on John Adams Dr Atomic at the Met which will be seen in London at the ENO next year: " Somewhere in this well-intentioned...

Everything Independent Opera does is distinctive. It's a tiny company, but visionary. Pelléas et Mélisande is a challenge even for big...

The Independent Opera Company is "under the radar" for those who think of opera mainly in terms of big name celebrities and high ...

This isn’t the “usual” Boris Godunov we know and love, but the 1869 original. No Polish scenes, No Princess Marina, no Kromy Forest . I...

Who is Karim Said, and why is he the subject of tonight's BBC4 TV film at 7.30, the last in the current series of Christopher Nupen por...

On Tuesday, José Serebrier made one of his sadly too rare London concerts. He has made over 200 recordings, some of which are "best in...

“This won’t be a total Schlacht of sound” said the director, Charles Edwards, of this production. Instead, it’s a strikingly intelligent int...

This spectacular performance of Lucifer’s Dance from the opera Saturday in the LICHT cycle was the crowning glory of the excellent Stockh...

This was one of the high points in this year’s magnificent Messiaen centenary. The Quartet for the End of Time is so well known that e...

"Exquisite Beauty: The World of Kunqu is an unprecedented large-scale Kunqu promotion programme in Hong Kong. A series of six demonstr...