Jetske Mijnssen’s new staging of Ariodante arrives with a clear conceptual stamp: Handel reframed as a Chekhovian family ...

The York Early Music Christmas Festival 2025 review – Helen Charlston and Yorkshire Bach Choir on the same day ...

English National Opera’s revival of HMS Pinafore promises buoyancy but quickly runs aground. Despite strong musical work and ...

It is 75 years since the Chelsea Opera Group was founded by David Cairns, Colin Davis and Stephen Gray, all students at Oxford at the time. Its longevity is brought into focus by considering that it ...

You can always rely on the Ryedale Festival to come up with inventive and engaging ideas, so it was no surprise that, not content with the hugely successful Summer Festival in July, they have now ...

Here's everything published by this contributor on musicOMH. Tom is a History graduate based in Oxford looking to forge a career in spouting off about music he loves. He'd probably do it for free ...

Christopher Alden’s surrealist staging of Partenope remains one of ENO’s most stylish and subversive Handel productions. Reimagining the Neapolitan heroine as a 1920s salon hostess surrounded by ...

Marin Alsop conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Walton’s Façade and a revised version of Laura Karpman’s opera Balls at Royal Festival Hall. Marin Alsop, with her usual brisk, economic style ...