It’s been a long time since an exhibition made me feel physically sick. The Hayward Gallery is currently hosting a ...

When Neil Young releases a new album, you can be reasonably sure that you’ll get either a disc of melancholy ...

With WOMAD not happening this year, where could one go for a feast of global sounds? Fes in Morocco has been presenting its ...

Although Mary Halvorson leads the sextet Amaryllis on About Ghosts, instrumentally, she does not place her guitar to the fore ...

It’s a sign of the inroads that the term “immersive” has made in theatreland that it now gets jokily namedropped at the ...

If, like me, chamber music isn’t your most frequent home, there are bound to be revelations of what for many are known masterpieces. Mine in recent years have involved Brahms, a composer I love more ...

Marina Diamandis is a proper pop star, brilliantly full-on, off on her own thing. The Welsh singer is primarily known for ...

This thrilling production of Saul takes Handel’s dramatisation of the Bible’s first Book of Samuel and paints it in pictures ...

It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a ...

Eva Quartet are four outstanding Bulgarian voices of polyphonic purity and depth, drawn from the legendary choir Le Mystere ...

In those seemingly long-ago times of loneliness and lockdown, artists around the world invited us into their kitchens and ...

Marianne Moore once famously defined poems as “imaginary gardens with real toads in them”. Operas also fill, or anyway should ...