Vincenzo Bellini‘s final opera I Puritani is a daunting challenge, no matter which opera house attempts it. It is nearly impossible to assemble a cast of principals that is up to the task. The Royal Opera House, for the first

2026 marks the first summer edition of Music in the Burnhams, a festival taking place in and around the beautiful village of Burnham Thorpe, nestled up in North Norfolk, near the top of England’s east coast. Despite this being the

Harrogate International Festivals is celebrating its 60th anniversary in style by bringing some of the biggest names and brightest emerging stars in classical music to Harrogate this summer – from the boundary-pushing stars such as Abel Selaocoe and Aurora Orchestra to legendary

In 1875, the English lawyer Arthur Duke Coleridge, an amateur musician with influential connections, spent some time in Leipzig studying music alongside the young Charles Villiers Stanford. He became acquainted with Bach‘s B-minor Mass, a work that had received its

Mosaic Seasons, founded in 2023 by composer Tatiana Svetlova as a classical music festival based in the South of France and Monaco, returns to London on 14th March with its inaugural UK presentation of Music of Our Time at Bechstein

Forty of the world’s best young pianists will soon converge on the White Rock Theatre for this year’s Hastings International Piano Competition (HIPC), which takes place from 26th February to 7th March. HIPC is a biennial classical piano contest held

The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), the UK-based charity for church music, invites organists around the world, professional and amateur, to get ‘Hands on with Handel’ in a mass organ ‘play along’ of the Largo (Ombra mai fu) from

During the last two years of his life, in a compressed timeframe between 1824 and 1826, Ludwig van Beethoven completed his final set of five string quartets. Fractured, deeply personal, and introspective, these works mirror the very essence of contemporaneity,