En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Anna Harvey

What's a director to do while we wait for technology to catch up with the complexities of the human condition?

Leider litt die rekonstruierte Weihnachtsmesse der Gabrieli Players an ein paar „Aufführungskrankheiten“.

A solid Figaro in Cardiff, in which individual performances are a joy, and humour abounds. 

Despite the excellent playing of the Britten Sinfonia, Anna Morrissey’s flawed production disappoints. 

Sir Roger Norrington and a strong cast joined a Baroque-style London Philharmonic Orchestra in a highly accomplished Dido and Aeneas, preceded by Handel’s clean and stately Water Music.

Competent if underwhelming Handel from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanchev.

Hereford Cathedral experiences a mix of sacred and secular explorations of melancholy and triumph, from Stravinsky, Walton, Ravel and Lili Boulanger.

Nevill Holt Opera and Royal Northern Sinfonia offer a sumptuous production, with gorgeous singing, but one unafraid to make us confront the uncomfortable aspects of the plot.

A Haydn choral sandwich and meaty Mozart filling served up by the RPO, the pianist Llŷr Williams, City of London Choir and Hilary Davan Wetton.

The 2016 Proms come to a riotous close at the Royal Albert Hall.

An even cast and a simple production makes Longborough Festival Opera's latest foray into aristocratic misdeeds a success.

With splendid singing from Chorus of Royal Nothern Sinfonia and Quay Voices; Paul McCreesh’s B Minor Mass is full of joy but lacks emotional punch.

That Rossini was a wag. The master of the bon mot, you suspect he probably had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he entitled his 1864 choral work the Petite Messe Solenelle.

Dutch National Opera performs Poulenc’s first opera, Les mamelles de Tirésias, as a project of the company’s talent development program... a fun occasion to witness the much lighter “voyou” side of the French composer.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a Handel opera in pursuit of a happy ending must have a few twists and turns, and Ariodante has everything you would expect.

Handel and the Huddersfield Choral Society go way back, and their union is probably listed somewhere in the Old Testament.

For an opera school production, it's a good idea to choose a classic: something that will focus the audience on the quality of the singers and orchestra rather than on innovation in the piece or programming.