The annual festival of Schubert and his contemporaries celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and, in 6 programs spread over two distinct performing spaces, brings the sound world of Schubert alive. The Schubertiade (named after the evenings in Schubert’s house)

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

The Musicantes Festival 2025, organized and produced by the Cultural Center of the University of Piura under the direction of Dr. Enrique Banús Irusta, continues to broaden its scope of contemporary musical creation in Peru. It provides a platform for

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,

As the autumn mist rolls across the ancient tors of Dartmoor and the wild, windswept cliffs of Exmoor, the Two Moors Festival becomes the musical heartbeat of this rugged corner of southwest England. For 25 years, the festival has transformed

In the autumn of 2001, a quiet initiative took root in the remote expanses of Devon and Somerset. The rural economy, battered by quarantines and travel bans, teetered on the edge of stagnation, and those vast, undulating blankets of heather

If the directors of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro intended to set the fox among the chickens and shake up their audience this year, they certainly succeeded. Just the mention of controversial director Calixto Bieito set tongues wagging and

With much fanfare, the Salzburg Festival announced Ulrich Rasche as director of Gaetano Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda. A proponent of “perpetual stage movement and intense lighting to create visceral experiences,” the German director’s vision was of two queens, each stuck in