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Beggar's Opera is only so-so in Soho

21.01.09

Pay your local hobo a tenner to croon Nessun Dorma and you'll have a Beggar's Opera more coherent than the Royal Opera's offering.... more

Verdi's Requiem strikes a good balance

12.01.09

LSO brings out the spirituality beneath Verdi’s greasepaint at the Barbican.... more

Wave of emotion in Riders to the Sea

28.11.08

Death permeates Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Riders to the Sea, and it hovers tragically over English National Opera’s production.... more

Tales of love and loss in Les Contes d’Hoffmann

26.11.08

John Schlesinger's lavish 1980 staging feels magnificently antique in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, a quaint nod back at a time of plenty.... more

Conductor Richard Hickox dies at 60

24.11.08

Richard Hickox has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 60, four days before he was due to conduct a new production at English National Opera... more

Tavener wants words to matter

17.11.08

John Tavener's Requiem stares death in the face while also attempting a synthesis of some of the world's great religions.... more

Pilgrim's Progress brought to life

23.06.08

The Pilgrim's Progress marked the 50th anniversary of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams's death, and it pulled out all the stops.... more

A poignant tribute

02.06.08

The Philharmonia and Richard Hickox's Pioneering Pilgrim series marked the 50th anniversary of the death of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.... more

The Vaughan identity

30.04.08

He has been out of fashion for more than 50 years, but now composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's vision of Englishness is being celebrated once again.... more

An evening of great Britten

05.12.07

After a ponderous start, the current glut of British tenors and baritones in the opera Owen Wingrave, made every word audible.... more

Hickox proves more than capable for Elgar's anniversary

04.06.07

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the great national composer Edward Elgar, the LSO chose masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius... more

A more civilised music festival

03.04.07

If you’re looking to get in on the festival vibe this summer, but standing knee-deep in mud doesn't appeal, you could try the Hampton Court Palace Festival.... more

The sound of war

08.01.07

This performance of Britten's War Requiem by the National Youth Orchestra at St Paul's Cathedral made up in grandeur what was lost in the acoustics.... more

Grimes eclipsed by glory of Venice

27.11.06

Three decades after his death, Britten's reputation as an operatic composer soars higher than ever as these productions of Peter Grimes and Death In Venice prove.... more

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