CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Glyndebourne is staging its first Billy Budd , sixty years after it was written. Thereiin lies a story.  Here are two different articles on ...

Plush Opera are streaming the 2009 Glyndebourne production of Verdi Falstaff this weekend, 8th and 9th May. in full and for FREE if you sign...

In the 1990's, by sheer chance, I walked in on the TV. Wonderful music, playing to an image of wheatfields, swaying endlessly in a breez...

In this country, voter turn-out is low. Shame!  People don't know how fortunate they are to be able to vote at all.  A vote may not mean...

Many important Chinese movies are impenetrable to non-Chinese viewers, which is a pity, because some of these films are seriously good, a...

Albert Coates conducts the Boyd Neel Orchestra playing  Hanns Eisler? No, not Kampflieder or the German Symphony but Eisler's version o...

At last, a truly superb tribute to Gustav Mahler! Christoph Eschenbach is presenting a cycle of the symphonies for free video and audio down...

The Soprano from Rahul Singh on Vimeo . Non-singers often can't imagine the dedication and hard work it takes to make a career as a ...

This morning, at 10am, Daniel Barenboim conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Barenboim and the Ber...

 It's time Verdi got attention in Aida , not elephants.The blue elephant in Graham Vick's Tamerlano almost stole the show, but eleph...

Fascinating inside story from The Times about Dudamel switching agents. The "why" is as interesting as the "how". What d...

Has Garsington Opera found a new haven? Garsington Opera has now started consultations with the local community, and relevant authorities to...

What makes a composer "suppressed"? Franz Schmidt wasn't suppressed by the Nazis, whom he actively supported, even when they m...

Thomas Adès's Powder Her Face is back at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House.It's a classic. Once again, Joan Rodgers sings...

The London Sinfonietta premiered Pedro Amaral's chamber opera O Sonho last night at London's Robin Howard Dance Theatre. It's b...