
Stephen Pritchard
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London
12 Feb 2026
Ed Lyon excels in Monteverdi’s Songs of Love and War

28 Nov 2025
Daniel Hope heads starry line-up for Sea & Music 2026

13 Jan 2025
Get Bach! Vienna Boys Choir go Lutheran

12 Dec 2024
The hidden folk history of Christmas carols

11 Nov 2024
The ultimate gig economy: freelance life in the orchestra pit

London
10 Oct 2024
Bernstein’s devastating double bill of raw emotion cuts to the bone


London
29 Sept 2024
Scottish Ensemble at the QEH: hugely energetic, top-quality playing

12 Jun 2024
A journey through Puccini’s Tuscany

London
24 Jan 2024
Impressive Royal Opera debut by Ruzan Mantashyan in Bohème revival

5 Dec 2023
Thousands of voices raised in song: choral traditions at Tartu 2024

4 Dec 2023
The trumpet shall sound: Marin Alsop on reinventing Handel’s Messiah


Bergamo
17 Nov 2023
Donizetti Festival’s Il diluvio universale drowned in video

London
22 Sept 2023
Intriguing, mysterious, intense: Picture a day like this at the ROH

London
21 Sept 2023
Peter Grimes a raging, powerful, defiant start to the new ENO season

London
19 Jul 2023
Lights, camera, distraction: Opera Holland Park stages B-movie Bohème


High Wycombe
1 Jun 2023
Fine cast shines in Garsington's new Mitridate

16 Mar 2023
Unearthing a royal requiem in Singapore

Lucerne
8 Feb 2023
Martha Argerich returns with thrilling Schumann concerto in Lucerne


Lucerne
7 Feb 2023
In at the deep end for harpsichordist Jean Rondeau in Lucerne

London
9 Nov 2022
The Emerson Quartet bid a bleak farewell to London

7 Nov 2022
Splendour and gold: Regents Opera prepares for new Ring cycle
Stockholm
18 Oct 2022
Music, people, planet: a triumphant celebration in music for Yo-Yo Ma
Stockholm
16 Oct 2022
Birgit Nilsson Prize: dazzling Dvořák from the ever-smiling Yo-Yo Ma
London
25 Sept 2022
Royal Opera Aida: a howl of protest against nationalism
Lerici
25 Jul 2022
Lerici Music Festival: two world premieres inspired by Shelley
London
2 Jun 2022
Carmen straight, with a slice of lemon, at Opera Holland Park

10 May 2022
András Keller on Concerto Budapest's first UK tour
Oslo
7 Apr 2022
Klaus Mäkelä conducts a fluent Bach Mass in B minor in Oslo
London
23 Jan 2022
Trevor Bowes sews up Handel's most fiendish character with the OAE
Hamburg
11 Jan 2022
Take five: Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie celebrates an early birthday
Reykjavík
18 Nov 2021
Ólafsson, Adès and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra kickstart the planet

12 Oct 2021
The language of music: Nicola Luisotti and Suntory Hall
Ravenna
9 Jul 2021
Ravenna Festival: in paradise, everything is just a little too quiet
Ravenna
8 Jul 2021
Ravenna Festival: Dante’s menagerie comes to vivid, vocal life
High Wycombe
6 Jun 2021
Spectacle and opulence in a richly rewarding Rosenkavalier
London
1 Jun 2021
Opera Holland Park: colour and laughter as Figaro opens the season
London
17 May 2021
La clemenza: Royal Opera returns with political scheming

6 May 2021
Music without limits: the Bergen International Festival 2021

29 Apr 2021
From Hungary to the world: the Bartók Spring International Arts Weeks
Stockholm
22 Apr 2021
Shostakovich's cinematic First Symphony too big for the small screen
Aix-en-Provence
2 Apr 2021
Luxury casting in Aix for a radiantly transcendent St Matthew Passion
Seattle
19 Mar 2021
Seattle Opera’s fast-track Don revealed in stark black and white
Munich
12 Mar 2021
Simon Rattle shows why London's tragic loss is Munich's infinite gain

2 Feb 2021
Martin Karu: Aiming for warmth and richness

4 Dec 2020
Virtual Circle: taking classical music into a greener future
Snape
19 Nov 2020
The OAE: why it's not wise to always see double
London
22 Oct 2020
One last time: Tasmin Little bids farewell to the Southbank Centre
London
20 Oct 2020
In the round: Roderick Williams sings and directs the OAE
London
17 Oct 2020
A live audience returns to Covent Garden

2 Oct 2020
Training tomorrow's stars amid the reality of today's pandemic
