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The Met Opera’s Frida y Diego proves visually stunning, musically thrilling
© Marty Sohl | Met Opera
The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark
© Paul Marc Mitchell
Glyndebourne’s first ever Tosca: vocally strong but dramatically imperfect
© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd | Richard Hubert Smith
Heavenly Mahler – and Strauss – from Lucy Crowe, Simon Rattle and the LSO
© LSO | Mark Allan
Barbora Horáková directs an ambitious update of Dialogues of the Carmelites in Prague
© Petr Neubert
Radiant Haydn, memorable Mendelssohn from Marek Janowski and the New York Phil
© Chris Lee
Gustavo Dudamel’s LA Phil Walküre proves worth the wait
© Elizabeth Asher
Northern Ballet’s Gentleman Jack at Sadler’s Wells
© Colleen Mair
No strings attached: Rossini’s Tancredi as a Sicilian puppet show in Rome
© Fabrizio Sansoni | Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Orlando revisited: Olga Neuwirth’s Virginia Woolf adaptation comes to Berlin
© Jan Windszus Photography
Charisma without fanfare: spellbinding Gewandhausorchester in Vienna’s Musikverein
© Gewandhaus | Martin Seifert
Anna Netrebko gatecrashes Riccardo Chailly’s triumphant La Scala farewell
© Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Conviction, passion and clarity of vision: Sir Stephen Hough at Wigmore Hall
© The Wigmore Hall Trust, 2023
Lucas and Arthur Jussen: a virtuoso pairing at Prague Spring
© Prague Spring Festival | Václav Hodina
The Drover’s Wife brings Aboriginal Dreaming to opera audiences
© David Kelly
The Philadelphia Orchestra debuts Tyshawn Sorey’s static Piano Concerto
© Allie Ippolito
Dramatically tense double bill pairs Iolanta with Luonnotar at Finnish National Opera
© Emma Suominen
Hilary Hahn’s French odyssey of refinement and fire in Dublin
© Kerrie Sheedy | National Concert Hall
Praying for better: Richard Jones’ Samson et Dalila returns to Covent Garden
© RBO | Mihaela Bodlovic
Tulsa Ballet at the Linbury: an unforgettable, punchy UK debut
© Kate Luber
Rituals of the radical: energetic Currentzis and Utopia at the Elbphilharmonie
© Daniel Dittus
Reality television: ENO’s Angel’s Bone in Manchester
© Tristram Kenton
The Met Opera’s Frida y Diego proves visually stunning, musically thrilling
© Marty Sohl | Met Opera
The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark
© Paul Marc Mitchell
Glyndebourne’s first ever Tosca: vocally strong but dramatically imperfect
© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd | Richard Hubert Smith
Heavenly Mahler – and Strauss – from Lucy Crowe, Simon Rattle and the LSO
© LSO | Mark Allan
Barbora Horáková directs an ambitious update of Dialogues of the Carmelites in Prague
© Petr Neubert
Radiant Haydn, memorable Mendelssohn from Marek Janowski and the New York Phil
© Chris Lee
Gustavo Dudamel’s LA Phil Walküre proves worth the wait
© Elizabeth Asher
Northern Ballet’s Gentleman Jack at Sadler’s Wells
© Colleen Mair
No strings attached: Rossini’s Tancredi as a Sicilian puppet show in Rome
© Fabrizio Sansoni | Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Orlando revisited: Olga Neuwirth’s Virginia Woolf adaptation comes to Berlin
© Jan Windszus Photography
Charisma without fanfare: spellbinding Gewandhausorchester in Vienna’s Musikverein
© Gewandhaus | Martin Seifert
Anna Netrebko gatecrashes Riccardo Chailly’s triumphant La Scala farewell
© Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Conviction, passion and clarity of vision: Sir Stephen Hough at Wigmore Hall
© The Wigmore Hall Trust, 2023
Lucas and Arthur Jussen: a virtuoso pairing at Prague Spring
© Prague Spring Festival | Václav Hodina
The Drover’s Wife brings Aboriginal Dreaming to opera audiences
© David Kelly
The Philadelphia Orchestra debuts Tyshawn Sorey’s static Piano Concerto
© Allie Ippolito
Dramatically tense double bill pairs Iolanta with Luonnotar at Finnish National Opera
© Emma Suominen
Hilary Hahn’s French odyssey of refinement and fire in Dublin
© Kerrie Sheedy | National Concert Hall
Praying for better: Richard Jones’ Samson et Dalila returns to Covent Garden
© RBO | Mihaela Bodlovic
Tulsa Ballet at the Linbury: an unforgettable, punchy UK debut
© Kate Luber
Rituals of the radical: energetic Currentzis and Utopia at the Elbphilharmonie
© Daniel Dittus
Reality television: ENO’s Angel’s Bone in Manchester
© Tristram Kenton
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