‘Tottering To Retire’: Handel’s Tamerlano
New Chamber Opera travels back in time to recreate the first performance of Tamerlano in 1724.
‘To Astonish and Delight’: Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie
The course of true love doesn't run smooth in this controversial new production of Rameau's first opera.
Oxford Philomusica Summer Baroque 2013
Two marvellous performances of Handel and the Bach family by Oxford Philomusica.
The School for Scandal at Park Theatre
An exciting production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's most celebrated comedy.
“Vita Christi”: The Leipzig Bachfest
In this special report from the Leipzig Bachfest, Paul Corneilson unfolds a panoramic view of Bach and his contemporaries.
A Wormsley View: Mozart’s Enführung aus dem Serail
Garsinton Opera presents a brilliantly updated and exquisitely comedic Entführung aus dem Serail.
Michael Haneke’s Cinematic Cosi at La Monnaie
Unorthodox choices abound in Haneke's intricate new production of Cosi fan tutte.
What Jane Saw
“What Jane Saw”: an online reconstruction of a Reynolds exhibition at the British Institution
Stradivarius at the Ashmolean: Exhibition and Gala Concert
The Ashmolean Museum plays host to an unmissable summer exhibition of original Stradivari instruments.
Handel’s Almira at the Boston Early Music Festival
Handel's rarely performed first opera is illuminated by a lavish and historically informed production.