The annual classical music festival begins this Friday and conductor Edward Gardner is already looking forward to his Last Night singalong, he tells Nick Kimberley... more
Widely touted as one of the most outstanding dramatic sopranos to have emerged in recent years, Amanda Echalaz had the chance to prove herself in Tosca.... more
“Darling to get tough on offshore tax evasion,” trumpeted the front page of the Financial Times as I was on my way to a seminar for those who sought to escape such measures... more
He was the conductor nobody wanted among the orchestras of Britain. So now teenage music prodigy Alexander Prior is leaving London to take up an appointment in America after being turned down 'everywhere' here... more
Following the supposed hoax that a boy was carried away by a weather balloon, we take a look at five other hoaxes that have fooled people everywhere... more
Ben Hur! is brought back to life at the O2, Coldplay, Jay-Z and Girls Aloud perform at Wembley and see the first night of Mother Courage and her Children ... more
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
The most influential people in London gathered at the launch of the Evening Standard's glossy magazine The 1000: London's Most Influential People 2008... more
Der Rosenkavalier is a comedy of a boy whose voice has not yet broken but whose busy libido has been awakened by a woman old enough to be his mother.... more
At its best this Aida begins to look like the success ENO badly need, says Barry Millington. But a great opera house cannot thrive on crowd-pleasers.... more
The Glyndebourne on Tour programme features Cosi fan Tutte, Turn of the Screw and Die Fledermaus, and they are all worth catching, says Barry Millington.... more
The subtlety of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw has ensured its survival and this Glyndebourne on Tour production is alert to its contemporary resonances.... more
Barry Millington's pick of the weekend's top classical events includes some Mozart at Greenwich park and the Minnesota Orchestra at the Proms with phenomenal pianist Llyr Williams...... more
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