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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
Stephen Pritchard
A spectacular staging of The Flying Dutchman
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Fiona Maddocks
How should we handle Handel?
Sun 6 Jul 2025
Fiona Maddocks
The Queen of Spades: Tchaikovsky’s heart of darkness
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Fiona Maddocks
William Boyd’s first libretto is a work of Chekhovian longing
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Deja vu in a Peckham car park: This year’s Bold Tendencies
Sun 15 Jun 2025
Fiona Maddocks
Glyndebourne’s triumphant opening weekend
Sat 24 May 2025
