"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 ...

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

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

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

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

Johnnie Taylor’s big break came with the ever-fabulous September 1968 single “Who's Making Love.” His ninth 45 for the Stax label, it went Top Ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Up to this point, the ...

Manchester Camerata spent eight years performing and recording a complete edition of Mozart’s piano concertos with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet as soloist, together with conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy, and ...

There is a dark, spectral quality to this empathetic film about Southeast Asian migrant workers in rural Taiwan. At the centre of this story is Oom, played with quiet stoicism by Wanlop Rungkumjad, ...