"How long is Wagner’s Ring Cycle?" That’s not the opening to a joke, it’s a genuine question asked by a friend who I’d met up ...

So here in Paris, as at Salzburg in 2022, it’s no longer “Puccini’s Trittico” but “the Asmik Grigoryan Trittico”. Which would ...

James Crabb is a musical magician, taking the ever-unfashionable accordion into new and unlikely places, through bespoke ...

Grief takes unexpected turns over the course of a long Icelandic day in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s romantic tragedy, a Prix Un Certain ...

DEFA was East Germany’s state film studio, operating between 1946 and 1992. Among its vast output were four lavish science ...

Dara Ó Briain’s  has described his previous show So… Where Were We? – in which he describes his search for his birth mother ...

This album Firedove (Sony Classical), surely, has to be seen as part of a bigger story: that of organist, choir director and ...

With French baroque opera all but banished from the UK’s major opera companies, it’s left to concert halls and country houses ...

Three live, very alive Symphonie fantastiques in a year may seem a lot. But such is Berlioz’s precise, unique and somehow ...

Photographer Finetime and I have our first pints outside Dalton’s, a bar on Brighton seafront, at almost exactly midday. They ...

There’s a grail, but it doesn't glow in a mundane if perverted Christian ritual. Three of the main characters have young and ...

In the guided tour of Britain’s cathedral cities that is the primetime TV detective series, the spotlight has now landed on ...