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Classical music & opera

  • ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ wood block print by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) a Japanese artist in the Edo period, one of 36 prints showing views of Mount Fuji first printed circa 1830.The Great Wave off Kanagawa wood block print by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) a Japanese artist in the Edo period, one of 36 prints showing views of Mount Fuji first printed circa 1830.

    Opera
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    He survived a stroke, a lightning strike, a fire – and created one of the world’s most recognisable images. Now the Japanese artist’s ‘wild, fascinating’ life has inspired an opera
  • Ronnie Scott's Classical Mondays - launch night, February 2026, presented by the Ronnie Scott's Classical All Stars.

    Snippets? Apps? Visuals? Why classical music should stop trying to be pop

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  • Punk and cabaret … Phelim McDermott’s 2014 staging of Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte, currently at ENO’s London base.

    ‘That make-or-break feeling? I love it’: can André de Ridder put ENO back on its feet?

  • Davóne Tines, opera singer, press image

    Anthems, agency and arias: baritone Davóne Tines on rewriting his role – and the rules

  • Elim Chan conducts the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall, London.

    Review
    LSO / Chan / Stankiewicz – Matthews’s oboe concerto is dense and dynamic

  • In glasses, a white shirt and black jacket, Max Richter stands onstage while behind him, in softer focus, sit the musicians who have performed his score for Hamnet

    Profile
    Max Richter: the composer who crosses the invisible divide between ‘high’ and ‘low’ music

  • Channelling the Fonz … Darwin Prakash and Joshua Blue as Guglielmo and Ferrando, with Lucy Crowe as Fiordiligi.

    Review
    Così Fan Tutte – witty circus staging has its tongue firmly in its cheek

Live reviews

  • George Benjamin

    LPO/Benjamin review – music of crystalline clarity and hedonistic pleasure

  • The Testament of Ann Lee c. Yasmin Huseyin

    The Testament of Ann Lee with Daniel Blumberg and Amanda Seyfried review – yelps, bells and bruised beauty

  • Ambition … the Leonkoro Quartet.

    Leonkoro Quartet review – vivid, intoxicating play from gleaming future stars

  • Sea Beneath the Skin/Song of the Earth at Barbican Hall, London.

    Sea Beneath the Skin/Song of the Earth review – sea, sand and ceremony as Mahler’s song cycle makes waves

Recordings

  1. Unsuk Chin

    Ensemble Intercontemporain: Unsuk Chin album review – rich and strange music of kaleidoscopic colours

  2. Conductor and vocalist Marco Angioloni.

    Handel: Sosarme album review – Marco Angioloni makes the case for this little-known work

  3. Yunchan Lim wearing formal dress playing the piano

    The Goldberg Variations album review – Yunchan Lim untangles Bach’s complex web of threads

  4. Leonkoro Quartet.

    Leonkoro Quartet: Out of Vienna album review – a blazing exploration of Viennese modernism

People

  • Andrew Clements, photographed in the Guardian Studio for his byline photo. Clements is the Guardian's classical music critic.

    ‘He was, above all, a treasured spirit, who understood how vital music is for the human soul’: tributes to Andrew Clements

  • Markus Weinfurter (Gesualdo) with Imogen Frances rehearsing Death of Gesualdo at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London.

    Diary of a degenerate: mapping the music and the madness of Carlo Gesualdo

  • John Harte will be the next managing director of the London Symphony Orchestra.

    News
    London Symphony Orchestra announces John Harte as managing director

  • 'Aquarius' TV Programme. - 1970Editorial use onlyMandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/Shutterstock (1384903e)Humphrey Burton'Aquarius' TV Programme. - 19701970 Aquarius

    Sir Humphrey Burton obituary

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