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Renée Fleming should sprinkle some stardust

04.11.09

Not content to rest on her laurels, the American soprano Renée Fleming has been investigating unfamiliar repertoire in recent years.... more

Great Dame’s sequined comeback is distinctly Everage

16.09.09

Dame Edna Everage's show was certainly a notable spectacle in all sorts of ways, but somehow this ambitious revival never really took flight... more

Modest but truly great conductor

14.07.09

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Could the flu be payback for our recent hoggish past?

29.04.09

Face it: you aren't going to die of swine flu. Getting all wound up about the looming pandemic is just a way of ignoring the plague of debt sweeping the world... more

Southbank lures the young with wolves, female hip-hop ... and 25,000 free tickets

27.02.09

Thousands of free tickets are on offer for a music festival for young people at the Southbank Centre this spring... more

Best Christmas concerts in London

12.12.08

Harps, Handel's Messiah and indoor fireworks — here’s our guide to the best of the Christmas concerts.... more

Romeo and Juliet dazzles

24.11.08

Valery Gergiev's take on Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is music of bold emotion and high drama, rather than the deepest feeling.... more

Boris Godunov is just good enough

11.11.08

This ENO production of Boris Godunov seems a worthy affair rather than a triumph, says Barry Millington.... more

Romeo and Juliet loses the plot

06.11.08

With the sub‑ballet pitter-patter, the wooden swords, the pointless trans-gender casting, and weak acting, Mark Morris's Romeo & Juliet disappoints.... more

Unbashed romanticism in Oedipus Rex

24.09.08

Festival Hall's gala event celebrated Esa-Pekka Salonen's first concert as principal conductor of the Philharmonia.... more

End of an era for Gatti

26.08.08

Fire and concentration made explosive magic of Daniele Gatti's last Prom as music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.... more

Fetish night with a big heart

21.08.08

Dressed like Betty Boop in a skintight red PVC dress, Miss Behave has the fruity voice of a head girl... more

There's no regulating the speed at which peasants merry-make but at the Proms, in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No6, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, they were going for gold.... more

Shame about the dame in Solyom's show

05.08.08

Stefan Solyom, the BBCSSO's young Swedish associate guest conductor, drew increasingly energetic and committed playing from the orchestra.... more

Miss Behave is not for the faint hearted

04.08.08

Three cautious cheers then for the Roundhouse for staging a month-long variety show, which is very much at the fetish end of the scale.... more

An emotional business

24.04.08

Balanchine's Serenade opened The Royal Ballet’s triple bill at the Opera House last night and easily eclipsed all else.... more

Seductive Soviet propaganda

03.03.08

Under conductor Xian Zhang, the London Symphony Orchestra enjoyed upstaging Sergei Eisenstein's film, in their presentation of Alexander Nevsky.... more

High intensity from Gergiev

25.02.08

Valery Gergiev's performance with the Vienna Philharmonic was a reading of characteristic emotional intensity.... more

Kissin reaches new peaks

18.01.08

Evgeny Kissin seems to have blossomed again and his playing of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No2 showed just how far he has come.... more

Dispiriting display

07.01.08

James MacMillan's symphony was dispiriting and one never felt the talented National Youth Orchestra were being encouraged to dig deep.... more

Composers don disguises

11.12.07

The Britten Sinfonia's performance was precise and danceable, where shared pleasure in music-making was worth more than merely superficial gloss.... more

Gergiev wins approval

29.08.07

The Proms audience roared approval at an imaginative all-Russian concert by the London Symphony Orchestra and their new principal conductor, Valery Gergiev. ... more

Youth on fine Proms form

06.08.07

Saturday's Prom, spirited into energetic life by Mark Elder, showed the 150-odd teenagers of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain on fine form.... more

Scintillating homage to Vaughan Williams

03.08.07

From the slightly twee to the meticulously crafted, this playful and fantasy filled homage to Vaughan Williams at the proms holds its head very high.... more

The thrill of Prokofiev

15.06.07

Valery Gergiev conducted a thrilling performance of Prokofiev's rarely heard Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution. ... more

Enjoying a renaissance

11.06.07

Warwick Thompson talks to Jude Kelly, the artistic director of the Southbank Centre, about the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall.... more

Risky gamble fails to pay off

04.06.07

A rarely seen opera, The Gambler shows up the problems of Prokofiev's work and only really takes fire in the last act... more

Experiment pays off for LPO

14.12.06

The LPO's latest programme at Queen Elizabeth Hall featured three works that all engage with the past in different ways, plus a world premiere.... more

Spirited end to a triumphant season

11.09.06

Mark Elder proved the ideal witty showman at the Last Night of the 112th Proms Season, as he led the BBC Symphony and Chorus in a lively, if lengthy, finale.... more