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Fiona Maddocks
Home listening: Wait Till the Clouds Roll By
Sun 5 Jul 2026
Fiona Maddocks
I puritani – flashes of wit and vocal fireworks light up Bellini’s bel canto
Sat 4 Jul 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Aldeburgh festival – there’s something in sea air
Sun 28 Jun 2026
Fiona Maddocks
L’Orfeo – far from a maddened crowd at Glyndebourne
Sat 20 Jun 2026
Fiona Maddocks
ROH’s The Marriage of Figaro is an irresistible invitation
Fri 12 Jun 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Home listening: Bohuslav Martinu’s Symphonies
Sun 7 Jun 2026
Stephen Pritchard
Garsington’s La traviata – Parisians party like it’s 1939 in a first-class Verdi
Sat 6 Jun 2026
Patrick Kidd
Felicity Lott: From gawky girl to one of Britain’s most feted sopranos
Sun 24 May 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Home listening: Mirage by Marc André
Sun 24 May 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
How Wigmore Hall became a classical music outlier
Sat 23 May 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Samson et Dalila - a sizzling showcase for two star voices
Sat 16 May 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Home listening: Nico Muhly’s No Resting Place
Mon 11 May 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Dame Felicity Lott reveals terminal cancer diagnosis ahead of dress auction for hospice
Sun 10 May 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Aigul Akhmetshina: ‘There’s truth in what Timothée Chalamet said’
Sat 9 May 2026
Xavier Greenwood
The Lord of the Rings trilogy in concert - anthems for a world in peril
Sat 9 May 2026
Patrick Kidd
Obituary: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor and composer
Sun 26 Apr 2026
Stephen Pritchard
LSO/ Pappano: The Dream of Gerontius – electrifying Elgar
Sat 25 Apr 2026
Stephen Pritchard
English Touring Opera’s tale of two Italies
Sun 19 Apr 2026
Letters to the editor
‘Unsafe’ convictions are not a lost cause
Sun 19 Apr 2026
Stephen Pritchard
Roderick Williams’s songs of England
Sat 11 Apr 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Home listening: Semyon Bychkov’s complete Mahler cycle
Sun 5 Apr 2026
Fiona Maddocks
The Turn of the Screw is a masterclass in menace
Sat 4 Apr 2026
Fiona Maddocks
The sounds of the Sistine Chapel
Fri 27 Mar 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Royal Opera’s Siegfried for the ages
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Wendy Ide
Ryan Gosling’s charm can’t save Project Hail Mary
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Hugh Cutting, the countertenor finding his voice
Sun 15 Mar 2026
I wasn’t bored by The Secret Agent, I just couldn’t stay. It’s actually a compliment
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Fiona Maddocks
VÃkingur Ólafsson's tribute to Kurtág
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Benjamin Britten’s pioneering pacifist opera
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Home listening: sopranos in the spotlight
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is as subtle as a headbutt
Sat 21 Feb 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Così fan tutte on Coney Island is a carnival of mischief and mania
Sat 14 Feb 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Ralph Fiennes takes on Tchaikovsky in his deft opera debut
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Stephen Pritchard
Julia Wolfe’s unEarth: an oratorio by the voices of the future
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Joanna Moorhead
The latest radical improvisation at Ronnie Scott’s: classical music
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Stephen Pritchard
The Fourth Choir brings James Joyce’s The Dead to life
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Is Lise Davidsen the soprano of the century?
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Home listening: the latest classical releases
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Karl Fallon
Jamie Wilkins is not your normal composer
Sun 11 Jan 2026
