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Riccardo Muti’s Italian Opera Academy: safeguarding the future of Italian opera

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Italian conductor Riccardo Muti’s Italian Opera Academy was launched in 2015 in Ravenna’s Teatro Alighieri. We explore the impact of the maestro on the next generation of opera artists

The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne: ‘I put all my best jokes upfront and try to find even better ones for later. I want to send the audience home euphoric’

Features

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Director of Glyndebourne’s new production of The Merry Widow, Cal McCrystal talks about the sometimes not-so-subtle art of making opera funny

Video of the Day: ‘A message to humanity – Symphony No 9 by Ludwig Van Beethoven’

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Gramophone

Classics Explained offer an entertaining introduction to one of the very greatest symphonies

Antonio Pappano: 10 key performances at the Royal Opera House

Features

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

As Sir Antonio Pappano steps down as music director of the Royal Opera House, Francis Muzzu takes a look back at a representative selection of his many great achievements with the company over the last 22 years

English Touring Opera's Robin Norton-Hale: ‘If you don’t get any letters, that means people thought, “That was all right” – I’d rather they felt something’

Features

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

General director of English Touring Opera, Robin Norton-Hale discusses her sanguine drive to present ambitious performances in the current opera climate

Lidiya Yankovskaya: ‘It was often people around my own age who were telling me that women shouldn’t conduct. I got hate mail’

Features

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Whether conducting the English National Opera, championing refugee musicians or supporting young composers, Russian-American Lidiya Yankovskaya is mindful of the profound connections to her heritage, cultural identity and artistic conscience

Monteverdi Festival 2024 – where everything was born and is now reborn

Features

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

The Monteverdi Festival blends tradition and innovation, celebrating Monteverdi, his operas, his extraordinary music and his legacy in the vibrant city of Cremona

A look inside the Verbier Festival's Atelier Lyrique Academy

Features

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Exploring life for tomorrow’s opera stars on the acclaimed Atelier Lyrique programme at the Verbier Festival

Director Damiano Michieletto brings Carmen to life: ‘It will be rural, poor, dirty and sweaty, with a burning sun like a western movie’

Features

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Damiano Michieletto’s new production of Carmen for the Royal Opera House brings a renewed focus on relationships and psychology to Bizet’s renowned score

Dafydd Jones, baritone | Young Artist of the Month

Features

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

The baritone reflects on a journey that has taken him from rural Wales to the Verbier festival

Vivaldi for a modern world

Features

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Gramophone

Violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and producer Thylacine may take very different approaches to the Red Priest's music - but what unites them is a belief in its impact for audiences today

Wellness at Welsh National Opera

Features

Thursday, April 4, 2024

| Opera Now

Meeting April Heade, the producer of Welsh National Opera’s successful wellness programme, which uses the power of singing to support individuals with chronic health conditions

'It’s the human stories that bring music into the modern age' - Creating Classics Explained

Features

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

| Opera Now

Music enthusiast Ben Levy shares the journey to creating animated videos of iconic classical music stories, and now hitting over three million views on YouTube

Top 20 Verdi Recordings

Features

Thursday, March 28, 2024

| Gramophone

Twenty outstanding Verdi recordings, featuring Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Anja Harteros, Ludovic Tézier, Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni and more

Charlie Mackesy | My Music: ‘I don’t think good music ever really leaves your soul’

Features

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

| Gramophone

The author of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse on his life-long love of music – and a new musical of the book for schools

Contemporary composer: Peter Eötvös

Features

Monday, March 25, 2024

| Gramophone

The Hungarian composer’s works, rooted in contemporary social issues, combine tradition and innovation, writes Arnold Whittall

Editor's Choice: April 2024 | The best new classical recordings

Features

Friday, March 22, 2024

| Gramophone

Mahler's Symphony No 6, Smetana's Má vlast, Stravinsky's Petrushka, Bruckner's Symphony No 8, Wagner's Parsifal and much more

Top 20 Bartók Recordings

Features

Thursday, March 21, 2024

| Gramophone

From the Concerto For Orchestra to Bluebeard's Castle, here are Béla Bartók's greatest works in outstanding recordings from Pierre Boulez, Susanna Mälkki, Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich and more

Icon: Byron Janis

Features

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

| Gramophone

Jeremy Nicholas pays tribute to one of the great American pianists, who in some ways surpassed even his teacher the legendary Vladimir Horowitz

Top 20 Debussy Recordings

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

| Gramophone

Debussy was among the most influential of all the 20th century’s composers. Here are 20 outstanding recordings of Debussy's greatest works, from Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune to Pelléas et Mélisande

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Riccardo Muti’s Italian Opera Academy: safeguarding the future of Italian opera

The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne: ‘I put all my best jokes upfront and try to find even better ones for later. I want to send the audience home euphoric’

Video of the Day: ‘A message to humanity – Symphony No 9 by Ludwig Van Beethoven’

Antonio Pappano: 10 key performances at the Royal Opera House

English Touring Opera's Robin Norton-Hale: ‘If you don’t get any letters, that means people thought, “That was all right” – I’d rather they felt something’

Lidiya Yankovskaya: ‘It was often people around my own age who were telling me that women shouldn’t conduct. I got hate mail’

Monteverdi Festival 2024 – where everything was born and is now reborn

A look inside the Verbier Festival's Atelier Lyrique Academy

Director Damiano Michieletto brings Carmen to life: ‘It will be rural, poor, dirty and sweaty, with a burning sun like a western movie’

Dafydd Jones, baritone | Young Artist of the Month

Vivaldi for a modern world

Wellness at Welsh National Opera

'It’s the human stories that bring music into the modern age' - Creating Classics Explained

Top 20 Verdi Recordings

Charlie Mackesy | My Music: ‘I don’t think good music ever really leaves your soul’

Contemporary composer: Peter Eötvös

Editor's Choice: April 2024 | The best new classical recordings

Top 20 Bartók Recordings

Icon: Byron Janis

Top 20 Debussy Recordings

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