Opera director Tang Xinxin has a new production opening in Singapore of Verdi’s Macbeth, running 27 to 29 March. We spoke with Ms Tang about this production and her other work in a recent conversation. Ms Tang is a graduate

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

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (ca 1562–1621) put his stamp on not only the music of the Netherlands but also that of North Germany, as a teacher of those who became the players of the North German School, and on English keyboard

It seems as though every age has its own Kurt Weill (1900–1950). Into the 1920s German cabaret? We have a Weill for that. Broadway more your style? We have a Kurt Weill for that. Hollywood? Art song? Opera? Yes, for

Most people may think, as they enter their ninth decade on this earth, that it is time to take a richly-deserved rest – but Sir John Rutter is not most people. Sir John (a recent knighthood last year for his

For Franco-Hungarian pianist Suzana Bartal, her new album, Grieg & Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos, marks an important milestone in her artistic life. Released by Channel Classics, the recording pairs Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor with Camille Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G

Some musicians live comfortably within the boundaries of the modern concert grand. Others, like Lebanese-born pianist and scholar Ziad Kreidy, spend their careers questioning those boundaries, searching instead for the forgotten voices of the past and the hidden colours of

An innovative program upcoming at the Hong Kong Philharmonic caught our interest. Conductor Robert Moody will be leading the Hong Kong Philharmonic in a program featuring the voice of Renée Fleming. The evening is centred on Fleming’s 2023 Grammy Award–winning