The Rosenblatt series presented tonight a very English recital: tenor Ben Johnson and pianist James Baillieu performed a programme full...

He has sung with Gheorghiu, Domingo and DiDonato; he has starred in the Met, La Scala and the Royal Opera House; he is one of the most...

David Beck’s portrait of Christina, Queen of Sweden Every opera composer would like to think that their works will keep being performed...

Brave, passionate and very talented. This was London’s first impression of the stratospheric tenor Javier Camarena, in one of the...

I was invited last night to that big musical festival of classical music that is the BBC Proms: thousands of people fill up the Royal...

It had been long since I last cried watching an opera. Today the traditional, consistent production of the Royal Opera House (Covent...

July 6, 2013 If Wagner had heard Birgit Nilsson singing Isolde’s Liebestod (Death for love), he wouldn’t have allowed any other soprano...

Mario Sofroniou and Jorge Navarro Colorado, about to sing under Gianluca Marcianò with the Chelsea Opera Group at the Queen Elizabeth...