Ah, those harbingers of Spring – no, not the snowdrops, but the reminders of the opening dates for public booking from Glyndebourne, Garsington Opera, The Grange Festival and Grange Park Opera. It’s ...

Longborough Festival Opera occupies a special place in the summer opera calendar. Nestled in the Cotswolds, with glorious views over the Evenlode Valley, it is further (though hardly inaccessible) ...

Benjamin Britten’s penultimate opera Owen Wingrave, Op. 85 is unusual in being expressly written for the television. With a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, and based on a short story by Henry James, it ...

Violinist, composer and conductor Pekka Kuusisto is indeed a musical phenomenon; he is known not only for his first-rate performances and instinctive understanding of the music he ...

While part of the delight of Glyndebourne, Garsington and the Granges is the act of making a day of it, Opera Holland Park’s unique selling point is that it offers the summer opera experience while ...

Since releasing his debut album back in 2002, North Carolina based singer-songwriter Sam Beam has made a name for himself under the Iron & Wine alias as an artist capable of writing rich, layered ...