After all the smoke and lighting of the LPO’s online series, there’s barely a hint of theatricality in this plain concert performance, with the only concession to lighting the constant red on the ...

The musical world is celebrating the ‘big three’ this year – Wagner, Verdi and Britten, and although none of Verdi’s full-length operas have been given at this year’s Proms, seven of Wagner’s operas ...

It’s also a damned awkward piece to stage. Covent Garden’s original production in 1955 placed the story of the midsummer travails of the marriage-bound Mark and Jenifer in settings by sculptor Barbara ...

The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) Label will release Tippett's opera The Midsummer Marriage on Friday 23 September - the first commercially released recording of the work in over 50 years. It ...