On a night when Storm Amy lashed Leeds with wind and rain, Opera North’s Susanna offered a different kind of…
On a wet and blustery autumnal evening, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Alpesh Chauhan, delivered a…
Opera North opened its 2025–26 season with something quietly radical: the UK premiere of the extended Hamburg version of Dame…
While much of Europe was glued to the Eurovision Song Contest, Liverpool offered its own musical spectacle at the Philharmonic…
Wagner’s monumental Ring cycle, often described as a feat of artistic ambition and endurance, was distilled into a thrilling concert…
The Flying Dutchman, often regarded as Wagner’s first true Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), has a somewhat problematic yet refreshingly straightforward narrative…
The journey to Leeds across the M62 saw far from midsummer weather – gusting winds, driving rain, whirling leaves –…
Opera North’s Magic Flute, reviving James Brining’s 2019 production of Mozart’s final opera, comes with literally all of the bells…
Let me let you into a little secret. When soloists embark on their concerto cadenza (an extended, elaborate virtuosic solo…
What amazed me about pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii’s concert at the Philharmonic Hall was not the virtuosic playing, the passion he…