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You're hired! Young maestro is orchestra's apprentice

13.08.09
leading London orchestra has appointed an 'apprentice' conductor after running a competition based on Alan Sugar's BBC television show... more

Theatrical addition to Proms from The Fairy Queen

22.07.09
Semi-opera semi-staged was the offering at the Proms as Glyndebourne came to town for The Fairy Queen.... more

Hot Tickets: London's going out guide

29.06.09
Inherit The Wind is coming to the Old Vic, visit Portobello Film Festival for free and book Into The Hoods at Southbank now.... more

A young person's guide to the opera

13.05.09
Not only has Edward Gardner, ENO's 34-year-old music director, scored another hit with Peter Grimes this week - he's leading a cultural revolution... more

Gender divide in Songs of War

27.04.09
Heiner Goebbels is a genius who happens to specialise in the imaginative juxtaposition of different sound worlds.... more

Scourge of vibrato proves his point

17.03.09
Roger Norrington is a mere stripling at 75 but he is in fine fettle, as his birthday concert proved.... more

Schumann refreshed by Rattle

09.12.08
A hint of rawness, particularly in the wind instruments, was permitted, even encouraged in Simon Rattle's case. ... more

Welcome to the waterfront at Rotunda

05.11.08
The canalside Rotunda Bar & Restaurant at the newly opened Kings Place arts centre is a spectacular setting for some hearty food.... more

Hundred concerts in five days to launch new arts centre

01.10.08
London's newest creative centre is being launched with 100 concerts in its first five days... more

La Calisto has never been more urban

24.09.08
All animal magic and dazzling Deco cum Op Art, The Royal Opera’s new staging of Cavalli’s La Calisto is fabulous entertainment.... more

The destructive power of lust

19.05.08
While the sordidness of L'Incoronazione di Poppea becomes ever more grotesque, the sensuality of the music enmeshes you with the adhesive cunning of a Venus flytrap.... more

A music revolution

07.05.08
When Kings Place Concert Hall opens later this year it will aim to prove that the arts can thrive without public money.... more

Rattle to conduct every Schumann symphony

18.04.08
Sir Simon Rattle will conduct all Schumann's symphonies and pianist Alfred Brendel will play his final London concert in the new classical music season at the Southbank Centre... more

The concert craze has only just begun

19.03.08
Daniel Barenboim sold out the Festival Hall eight times over with his Beethoven piano cycle. With demand for classical music at an all-time high, it's no wonder London is gaining two new halls.... more

Playing with Greek fire

11.09.07
Production frustrations aside, the Royal Opera's new season has opened on a musical high with Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride.... more

Anglo-Germans' Handel with flair

24.08.07
Two of the finest period instrument ensembles came together as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra performed at the Proms.... more

Brilliant battle cries

13.07.07
Heiner Goebbels has a knack of creating unique, mesmerising works of music theatre that linger in the memory... more

A literal feast for all

03.07.07
Featuring prize-winning authors, historians, poets and performers, the London Literature Festival has something to offer all lovers of the written and spoken word.... more

Brilliant Bach fired with contemporary passion

02.07.07
The choice of Katie Mitchell to direct St Matthew Passion at the Glyndebourne Festival ensured an originality to this sacred masterpiece... more

La Cenerentola shows off vibrant Glyndebourne

19.06.07
Another production of Rossini, La Cenerentola, features zany ensembles and the sharp energy showed Glyndebourne at its vibrant best ... more

The five-star Festival Hall

12.06.07
The refurbished Royal Festival Hall received top marks from Barry Millington for its opening concert featuring all four resident orchestras.... more

New Light on Dvorak

16.05.07
Conductor Simon Rattle creates a revelation out of Dvorak with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Barbican. ... more

Boy with a baton

08.05.07
Simon Rattle made his Glyndebourne debut at 22. Now at 24, Robin Ticciati is following in his footsteps of his great mentor - and he's terrified. ... more

Triumph of the lovelorn knight

27.02.07
Thunderous applause greeted Bejun Mehta, the American counter-tenor, when he took his bow after a sensational performance of the title role in Handel's Orlando at Covent Garden.... more

South Bank Centre's summer season unveiled

25.01.07
The refurbishment of the new Royal Festival Hall will open on schedule, it has been announced, as highlights of the South Bank Centre's summer season are unveiled.... more

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