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The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark
Come away fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing! All board the Cutty Sark for a semi-staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.
Triumphant Tavener opens the Edinburgh International Festival
John Tavener's epic, eight-hour all-night vigil opens the festival in monumental style, directed by Thomas Guthrie.
Good tidings of great joy from the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall
Handel's Christmas classic gets a fresh lick of paint from John Butt and colleagues.
The Gabrielis shine in Purcell's confusing King Arthur
King Arthur is an opera without a plot and, in musical terms at least, Arthur without the King.
Games of Thrones: Handel's Tamerlano
Handel's psychotic Tartar leader and bedhopping nobles are well served in an excellent collaboration between the Buxton Festival and the English Concert with some outstanding singing from Marie Lys and Owen Willetts.
Reisopera's Così fan tutte: cast shine in an uninspired staging
In the Nederlandse Reisopera's Così fan tutte, the team of young soloists and the Orkest van het Oosten conducted by Arnaud Oosterbaum give a musically rewarding performance that compensates for an unconvincing stage direction.