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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
Stephen Pritchard
Tosca at Glyndebourne - when thugs take over
Sat 30 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
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
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
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
Fiona Maddocks
Hugh Cutting, the countertenor finding his voice
Sun 15 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
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
How to bring a symphony to life
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Fiona Maddocks
The restless poetry of Kát’a Kabanová
Sat 9 Aug 2025
