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Letters: ‘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
Erica Wagner
I wasn’t bored by The Secret Agent, I just couldn’t stay. It’s actually a compliment
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Fiona Maddocks
Víkingur 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
Fiona Maddocks
Alfred Brendel: a Musical Celebration – a night to remember
Fri 9 Jan 2026
Fiona Maddocks
The best of classical in 2026
Thu 1 Jan 2026
Fiona Maddocks
The best classical of 2025
Thu 25 Dec 2025
Stephen Pritchard
Inside the Beethovenhalle Bonn’s £200m renovation
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
A memorable Messiah, with King Charles in the house
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
The Kurt Cobain opera is hallucinogenic
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
The RCM’s Cunning Little Vixen is beguiling
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Home listening: the best Christmas classical releases
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
‘It’s like finding myself again’: Julian Lloyd Webber picks up his cello after 10 years
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Vive la farce: Handel’s Partenope returns to ENO
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Vive la farce: Handel’s Partenope returns to ENO
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Stephen Pritchard
A lament for lost birds
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Stephen Pritchard
Cross-Channel harmony at the London Festival of Baroque Music
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Fiona Maddocks
A radical reworking of The Makropulos Case
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Oxford International Song festival hits a note of radicalism
Thu 30 Oct 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Wexford festival’s operatic rarities
Fri 24 Oct 2025
Kenan Malik
Art isn’t too complex for the working class – that’s elitism
Sun 12 Oct 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Movers and Shakers at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Fri 3 Oct 2025
