Even for a festival whose whole purpose is to platform a rich range of artists from cultures all around the world, WOMAD 2026 ...

This album is such a remarkable document, and on so many levels. Perhaps its main "story" is that it could well be the very ...

Had you been at John Wilson's Respighi spectacular on Friday, or heard it on BBC Radio 3/watched it on BBC Four, you might have perceived last night's journey up and down Richard Strauss's Bavarian ...

We’ve said it before but it bears repeating. The globalisation of music culture, from ultra mainstream to underground, in the ...

"It was insanely excellent," enthused one of the Järvi Academy Symphony Orchestra's young musicians about the Estonian ...

You don't have to be mad to enjoy Gerald Barry's methodically berserk approach to Wilde, but your wits might have begun to ...

If the secret of comedy is timing and location, location, location determines a property’s success, then the producers of ...

Can the 1916 Prologue of Strauss and Hofmannsthal added to a revised version of a 1912 opera-within-a-play setting the ...

Dismemberment is a key motif in the writer-director Simon Stone’s The Oresteia. It reflects the treatment of two of the piece ...

It’s always a pleasure to meet again with Charles Lloyd, whose sweet and expressive tone first enchanted me as a teenager in ...

The air is thick with theatrical smog… then comes prolonged darkness. Gradually, a dull glimmer of warm light reveals a ...

Forget Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with bells, cannons and military bands (most people have, but it was my introduction to ...