Artículos de Mark Pullinger

A family treat as Stravinsky's Firebird is played – and painted – in the Paris Philharmonie. 

The 140th anniversary of the composer’s birth is celebrated with a three-concert festival in the city of Yekaterinburg.

Corinna Niemeyer conducts the Orchestre de Paris, which had never played Poulenc's Concert champêtre before, and had only given one performance each of the Sinfonietta and Organ Concerto. Incroyable !

Bergamo’s Donizetti Festival was the opportunity “to give a signal that it’s still possible to stage opera and to do it well.”

Louise Farrenc bucked the trend by composing symphonies at a time when Paris had turned its back on the symphony.

Omer Meir Wellber conducts a spirited account of Verdi's early opera, semi-staged and live-streamed from the Teatro Massimo.

Esa-Pekka Salonen pairs Sibelius' last two symphonies in his concert with the Orchestre de Paris

The finale of the Icelandic pianist's five-concert residency in the Bergen Philharmonic's Wintermezzo festival saw him play Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor... this time in the same hall as the orchestra!

The Russian soprano revived her Day and Night programme for The Met Stars Live in Concert series with a recital from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.

A charming programme featuring Renaud Capuçon and Gérard Caussé in the Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, one of Mozart’s most sublime, sun-drenched works. 

When the pandemic struck and theatres were locked down, OperaGlass Works' staging of The Turn of the Screw was an early casualty. Creative thinking turned the production into a film, with London's oldest music hall the set. 

A doom-laden trip to Dante's Inferno via Shakespeare's star-cross'd lovers and a voyage across the lake to The Isle of the Dead. 

Purity and clarity are hallmarks of Zimerman’s playing and there was an almost aristocratic composure to his phrasing in these splendid performances. 

The Swedish conductor reflects on his long career, from young rebel to grand master and on his child-like curiosity. 

Sir Peter Wright’s festive treat is back – and Covid-secure – as the Royal Opera House stages its first full-length staged performance since the theatre closed in March.

As a streaming platform, how do you stand out in such a competitive market? What do you offer audiences beyond pointing cameras and microphones at musicians in an empty room? 

What do you do when your planned season opener bites the dust? Fly in the stars and put on a concert performance of a verismo favourite. 

The Vienna Philharmonic's harpist inaugurates the new instrument at Musikkollegium Winterthur, putting it through its pace in Mozart and Debussy.

The stylish boulevards of Ibert's Flute Concerto are the destination for the Berliners before a wild journey into Berlioz' frenzied psyche in his Symphonie fantastique. 

There was already a resurgence of interest in Price in recent years, but the flurry of activity to programme her works this year as a response to Black Lives Matter suggests things are finally changing.