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You’re unlikely to see a better case made for this Bernstein double bill

19 October 2024 9:00 am

It’s rare nowadays to see a new opera production that’s set in the period that the composer and librettist intended,…

British opera companies and orchestras must start investing in native talent

23 January 2021 9:00 am

Brexit and Covid have pushed us out of the common musical market and thrown us back on homegrown sprouts. Good, says Norman Lebrecht