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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
Playlist of the week: songs for midwinter
Thu 18 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
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
Fiona Maddocks
Benjamin Britten’s oddball masterpiece
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Stephen Pritchard
Misogyny and misinformation in a 21st-century Handel
Sat 11 Oct 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Garland – a horse, a car park, and a night of pure imagination
Sat 27 Sept 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Anna Netrebko electrifies in a controversial Tosca
Fri 19 Sept 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Anton Bruckner’s divisive legacy
Sat 13 Sept 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District – satire at the opera
Fri 5 Sept 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Lucerne’s musical bonanza
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Fiona Maddocks
An elegy for Ukraine
Sat 23 Aug 2025
Phil Hebblethwaite
Mahler’s world in sound
Sat 16 Aug 2025
Erica Wagner
How to bring a symphony to life
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Fiona Maddocks
The restless poetry of Kát’a Kabanová
Sat 9 Aug 2025
Vanessa Thorpe
Was that eight-hour choral epic on a beanbag worth it?
Thu 7 Aug 2025
Fiona Maddocks
A singalong Dido and Aeneas
Sun 3 Aug 2025
Fiona Maddocks
A spectacular series of firsts at the Proms
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Mark Simpson: ‘When I perform I’m like a shaman’
Sun 20 Jul 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Leonard Bernstein’s opera of suburbia
Sat 19 Jul 2025
