Articles par Bachtrack

Since 2006, the annual Budapest Wagner Days has quietly been growing into a major force for dedicated Wagnerites, the highlight of Müpa’s season.

For five editions now, the island of Malta has played host to the Valletta International Baroque Festival, bringing together the Baroque beauty of venues in the capital city with the best music from the period. 

Austrian-Russian pianist Lisa Smirnova features in the London Piano Festival at Kings Place this October. We caught up with her for a quick Q&A.

Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen made a huge impact on the operatic world in the summer of 2015. We caught up with her ahead of her season as Artist in Residence with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

As we hurtle towards October and the centenary of the Russian Revolution, 18 organisations in Wales have banded together in a show of artistic muscle to mark the anniversary. 

Le Grand Théâtre de Genève propose ne saison 2017-2018 riche et équilibrée, avec onze opéras (dont quatre nouvelles productions), trois ballets, huit concerts et récitals.

Welcome to your August Hot List, hand-picked by our editorial team from the wealth of listings on Bachtrack's 'What's On' section.  Your listings should begin with your 'home' city – but only if you have set one as your most usual concert/opera-going city. You can also select other cities as your favourites, so that these should appear next on the list.

London's latest festival of small scale opera offers four very different shows, with music from Rimsky to Kurtág, and styles from schmaltz to avant-garde.

100 years after the première of Bluebeard's Castle, the Hungarian State Opera celebrates with not one, but four different productions of Bartók’s opera.

Few orchestras in the UK cover as many miles – from Exeter and Portsmouth to Bristol and Basingstoke – although the Lighthouse in Poole has been its central home for decades.

Welcome to your July Hot List, hand-picked by our editorial team from the wealth of listings on Bachtrack's 'What's On' section.  Your listings should begin with your 'home' city – but only if you have set one as your most usual concert/opera-going city. You can also select other cities as your favourites, so that these should appear next on the list.

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra's season includes core classical favourites, starry soloists and forays into lesser-played repertoire for the musically curious.

Most classical music fans would associate Tokyo's Suntory Hall with its symphonic hall and its great acoustics, but in fact, the venue also has a beautiful wood-panelled chamber music hall named “Blue Rose”.

For its second season under the leadership of principal conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra offers a wonderfully balanced programme. As well as featuring some of the world’s leading soloists, Icelandic composers and performers are also championed.

Few opera singers capture the public imagination like Anna Netrebko. And there are few more glittering occasions in the opera calendar than the opening night of the season at the Teatro alla Scala.

When it is not digging up Donizetti rarities, English Touring Opera can often be found performing Baroque opera. Artistic Director James Conway has decided on a return to the Baroque for its autumn season. 

Après l’Europe centrale, l’Orient, l’Amérique du Nord, les couleurs de la saison prochaine à l’Opéra de Dijon seront celles du monde ibérique – Espagne et Portugal –, et de l’Amérique latine.

Welcome to your June Hot List, hand-picked by our editorial team from the wealth of listings (33 pages!) on Bachtrack's 'What's On' section.  Your listings should begin with your 'home' city – but only if you have set one as your most usual concert/opera-going city. You can also select other cities as your favourites, so that these should appear next on the list.

Eight weeks worth of nightly concerts featuring a dazzling line-up of orchestras, conductors and soloists: here's our selected highlights of what to book for. 

Welcome to your May Hot List, hand-picked by our editorial team from the wealth of listings (36 pages!) on Bachtrack's 'What's On' section. This is our largest monthly list yet, reflecting some enticing events, as well as our depth of concerts listed.