I've long adored the Budapest Festival Orchestra, but this concert Wiener Konzerthaus was something a bit special (including the choral encore): bachtrack.com/review-fischer…

Southbank programme announcement:,shorturl.at/vWe3j

It's Monster Mash time! - Booze, Muses, dying divas, Sandmen, ETA Hoffmann, and Offenbach's swansong thoroughly Mashed by director James Bonas, Lucy Lethbridge, Yehuda Shapiro and host Robert Thicknesse thecritic.co.uk/love-death-and…

Critical Mash podcast descends from its usual Empyrean abode to be clever and funny about JB with world experts Simon Winder and James Chapman. Hosted by the thinking man's Bond girl Lucy Lethbridge and SMERSH reject Robert Thicknesse. audioboom.com/posts/8710144-…

The more I have become immersed in Mahler’s symphonies over the years the more brightly the mighty Eighth has shone. Edward Gardner’s quite stupendous theatrically immersive ‘staging’ London Philharmonic Orchestra Southbank Centre was right up there. Thrilling. Moving. Visionary.

This rare Telemann gem comes up sparkling from the Jette Parker Young Artists Royal Ballet and Opera criticscircle.org.uk/telemanns-pimp…

Colin Clarke (Classical Explorer) reviews Wagner's "Die Walküre" at Covent Garden:shorturl.at/rjBJE

The soprano Seohyun Go has won the ⁦Guildhall School of Music & Drama⁩ Guildhall School’s Music Gold Medal 2025.

Avner Dorman's Wahnfried: brave, unflinching, if a difficult opera to love. My review from Longborough: bachtrack.com/review-dorman-…

Per Nørgård 1932-2025. A giant of Nordic music - of music full stop - has gone. A unbounded musical imagination and perhaps the greatest symphonist of our time. But it was the sheer beauty of his music that held the breath and touched the heart. #pernørgård

'Nordic music has lost a patriarchal figure and the wider contemporary music world an artist of colossal imagination and influence'. Andrew Mellor pays tribute to Per Nørgård, who has died aged 92 gramophone.co.uk/classical-musi…

The resurrection of classic films and their scores: Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" at Sheffield, in a post by Colin Clarke

♠️ Three, Seven, Ace: Jack Furness plays his cards right in an outstanding Queen of Spades at @garsingtonopera My review for Opera Now: gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/revi…

Interviewed the delightful Masaaki Suzuki for The Tablet ahead of his debut with the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra later this month:

Opening night at Grange Park Opera – Simon Keenlyside singing Simon Boccanegra. But here’s the 2026 season:

Scene after scene registers as a genuine coup de theatre: it has to be 5 stars from me in The Stage for Hansel’s Saul Glyndebourne thestage.co.uk/reviews/saul-r…

"By turns beautiful and frustrating: review Opera Now magazine of Colin Matthews and William Boyd's debut opera A Visit To Friends Britten Pears Arts gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/revi…

#Tchaikovsky Onegin at Thaxted Festival: shorturl.at/1EQsS

An exceptionally involving Onegin from ann wildmon, hosted by Opera Holland Park this evening. A production that felt entirely in the spirit of the piece and flowed beautifully. The sense of ensemble was palpable. Another independent company showing how it can be done.

Mozart's Zauberflöte at RBO: a review. shorturl.at/O4Uyh