Freddie De Tommaso may be only in his early thirties, but the last five years have propelled him into a league many singers take decades to reach. He returns to Covent Garden this September as ...

Le nozze di Figaro is the first opera that Glyndebourne ever presented in its inaugural season in 1934, and there is no other work with which the festival has been so inextricably linked. When it ...

Having been miscatalogued in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, it was rediscovered in 2005 by the musicologist Davitt ...

It takes musical intelligence, brilliant technique, and a surety of purpose to bring off this potpourri work, but we need not ...

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – whose first concert fully open to the public in a dedicated venue was given in 1781 – claims to be the longest established continuing symphony o ...

Delius’ A Mass of Life is big, lumpy and a bit impractical, but it’s strangely attractive in its own bygone-era way. The last time the work was performed at the Proms was 1988 ...

Although Shostakovich’s 1934 opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk received huge public acclaim – both in the Soviet Union and in the ...

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