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Serge Dorny’s success as head of Opéra de Lyon is based on creative foundations
This must be one of Birtwistle’s most playful and digestible pieces
The first-night success of Judith Weir’s new opera owed much to the musical mastery of conductor Paul Daniel
Heiner Goebbels’s signature work captured the impersonal personality of the modern metropolis
This concert directed by the violinist revealed the intricacy and spirit of baroque music
This production of Dvorák’s fairy tale represents grown-up opera at its best
Children from a deprived part of Scotland are the latest to discover the joy of making music thanks to the global growth of El Sistema
Frankfurt-based Heiner Goebbels talks about his creative approach as a composer and director
The tenor’s ‘Figures from the Antique’ programme pairs baroque and 20th-century portraits of villainy, with works by Satie, Britten, Scarlatti and Handel
This all-American programme of music was all about conductor and composer André Previn
This performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony under music director Alan Gilbert barely broke sweat
This bold production of Bellini’s rarely-performed opera is an unlikely success
Scottish Opera, shorn of a full-time orchestra and chorus, demonstrates it can still boast high musical standards
Lyon’s ‘Puccini plus’ festival puts the three one-act components of ‘Il trittico’ alongside three German one-acters
Dallapiccola’s one-act opera, written in the late 1940s, is finally revealed as a masterpiece
Tim Albery directs a sober, severe production and his vision, like Handel’s, is at its most concentrated in solo arias
Criticism of percussion as ‘crash bang wallop’ is laughable, says Colin Currie, one of the leaders of a new wave
Leading mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly is used to defying expectations, writes Andrew Clark
Soprano Emma Bell is concerned with emotional truthfulness – but there are limits
Anne-Sophie Mutter is a patron of new music – as well as an accomplished performer of 19th-century repertoire
Obscure operas are the lifeblood of the Wexford Festival. Andrew Clark explains the joys of some little-known works
Opera tells us about what it is to be human. David Leventi photographs the view from the stage, Andrew Clark explores its architecture and Natalie Whittle interviews the stars
The concert pianist - who left Japan aged just 12 and now feels ‘very European’ - tells Andrew Clark about the Japanese taste for both simplicity and vulgarity
The best thing about the Romanian tenor’s programme, like his singing, was its refusal to go down the populist route
A recital of Schubert’s ‘Die schöne Müllerin’ seamlessly marries music and poetry
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