Aside from elves on shelves, Rudolph, Santa’s unhealthy diet and other 20 th century customs, Christmas has long had folklore and traditions associated with it that, while not found in the biblical ...

The Gesualdo Six’s Advent calendar this year consists of five dates in Clervaux, Helsinki, London, Cambridge and Stroud; Wednesday evening saw them at Smith Square for the second of these. While many ...

Not only is The Glasshouse International Centre for Music spectacularly set on the banks of the River Tyne, with wide views of the city of Newcastle, but it houses in Sage One a superb concert hall ...

In the first few decades of the 18 th century, the chattering classes of British cities were obsessed by Italian music – enjoyment of its elegance and sophistication (with just ...

The instruments not only balanced perfectly with the voices, but gave us some delectable textures of sound – edginess from the strings; a sparkly pair of flutes accompanying the soprano duet in ...

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

English National Opera’s revival of HMS Pinafore promises buoyancy but quickly runs aground. Despite strong musical work and a committed cast, Cal McCrystal’s staging leans so heavily on laboured ...

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 ...

It’s never easy to bring ancient folkloric traditions to the stage, especially when their narrative is challenging, but with two ever-innovative companies involved, together with singing by some of ...