Rossini: The Barber of Salisbury
Rossini's Barber of Seville transplanted into the England of Jane Austen.
The Comte de Caylus
The Comte de Caylus website - Recueil d’Antiquités, 1752-1767.
Graupner: Chamber Music
This recital at the Utrecht Festival succeeded more as an academic exercise than as a concert.
Kuhnau, Zelenka, Bach: Magnificat
An all-Maginificat programme at the Utrecht Festival by the Bach Collegium Japan.
Travels from Biber to Buxtehude
A charming performance of German chamber music at the Utrecht Festival.
Catherine the Great: An Enlightened Empress
Edinburgh plays host to the Hermitage and its formidable Empress, to dazzling effect.
Charles-Joseph Natoire: Le dessin à l’origine de la création artistique
Nîmes celebrates Natoire, its master draughtsman.
The Supersizers Go Restoration and The Supersizers Eat… The French Revolution
The BBC's historical cookery show with Giles Coren and Sue Perkins.
Handel’s Tamerlano at the Salzburg Festival
An outstanding cast with intriguing stylistic contrasts assembled for a Salzburg concert performance of Handel’s 1724 opera.
A Will of Their Own: Judith Sargent Murray and Women of Achievement in the Early Republic
A pantheon presenting the female face of the Early American Republic.