Wheeldon's Like Water for Chocolate for The Royal Ballet is sumptuous but complex ✍️ Amanda Jennings bachtrack.com/review-like-...

Simone Lamsma dazzles in Britten as Chauhan brings sunshine to a stormy Liverpool @liverpoolphil.bsky.social ✍️ Leighton Jones bachtrack.com/review-chauh...

Mao Fujita and Semyon Bychkov deliver a virtuoso pairing in Prague ✍️ Frank Kuznik bachtrack.com/review-bychk...

Gemma New impresses Birmingham with Bacewicz, Sibelius and Shostakovich @thecbso.bsky.social ✍️ Robert Gainer bachtrack.com/review-new-t...

How I learned to stop worrying and love 11,000 strings: Georg Friedrich Haas at Park Avenue Armory 🎹 ✍️ Kurt Gottschalk bachtrack.com/review-haas-...

Powerful Chopin and Mendelssohn from the Leonore Piano Trio in Sheffield ✍️ Phil Parker bachtrack.com/review-leono...

English National Ballet's R:Evolution at Sadler's Wells showcases tenacity, legacy and talent @sadlerswells.bsky.social ✍️ Deborah Weiss bachtrack.com/review-revol...

Everybody wants to play some Bach: Fazıl Say's jazzed-up Goldberg Variations in Berlin ✍️ Elena Luporini bachtrack.com/review-fazil...

It was a hot mess @nycballet.bsky.social last Thursday #Eclectic with a few dynamite moments like this one in Justin Peck's HEATSCAPE with Mira Nadon and Chun Wai Chan (photo: Erin Baiano.) My review for @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/review-new-y...

Through Winter’s shadow: a journey through Schubert’s Winterreise at the Muziekgebouw ✍️ Antonio D'Amato bachtrack.com/review-goern...

Calixto Bieito’s Idomeneo runs out of time in Prague ✍️ Frank Kuznik bachtrack.com/review-idome...

A political composer? John Adams revisits Nixon in China in Rome ✍️ Thomas May bachtrack.com/interview-jo...

Seaside shenanigans: English Touring Opera transfers Donizetti to the English coast @etopera.bsky.social ✍️ Dominic Lowe bachtrack.com/review-elixi...

A big night for Polish music with David Robertson and the New York Philharmonic @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social ✍️ Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-rober...

Line, rhythm and spectrum: Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic in the present tense ✍️ SangKwon Lee bachtrack.com/review-zwede...

The comedy falls flat in English National Opera's season opening Cinderella ✍️ Mark Valencia bachtrack.com/review-cinde...

Artistic adventures with the Manchester Collective @southbankcentre.bsky.social ✍️ Chris Garlick bachtrack.com/review-manch...

Conceptual shortcomings, visual splendour: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at the @metopera.bsky.social ✍️ Edward Sava-Segal bachtrack.com/review-bates...

Shakespeare in New York: @canadianopera.bsky.social again opens season with Gounod and Amy Lane ✍️ John Gilks bachtrack.com/review-gouno...

Manfred Honeck heralds a spirited season opener at the Pittsburgh Symphony ✍️ Sam Jacobson bachtrack.com/review-honec...

Polished Ravel x 2 from Alice Sara Ott with the @chicagosymphony.bsky.social ✍️ Graham Meyer bachtrack.com/review-franc...

Ivo van Hove's Don Giovanni makes a welcome reappearance at the Met Opera ✍️ Robert Levine bachtrack.com/review-don-g...

Grit and grandeur: Andrew Manze and the @liverpoolphil.bsky.social illuminate Henry Wood’s orchestrations ✍️ Leighton Jones bachtrack.com/review-manze...

Flat Ravel, timeworn Tchaikovsky: a slow start for the Czech Philharmonic ✍️ Frank Kuznik bachtrack.com/review-bychk...

“I’m a very controlling person, but you cannot control everything!” Choreographer John Neumeier talks about keeping ballet alive ✍️ Deborah Weiss bachtrack.com/interview-jo...

Abesalom da Eteri in Tbilisi: a glimpse into the Georgian soul ✍️ Dominic Lowe bachtrack.com/review-palia...

Contemporary works populate Philadelphia Orchestra's opening night @philorch.bsky.social ✍️ Cameron Kelsall bachtrack.com/review-nezet...

Resplendent Elgar tarnished by over-indulgent Rachmaninov in @thehalle.bsky.social season opener ✍️ Rohan Shotton bachtrack.com/review-wong-...

Cast and orchestra bring down the house in Met Opera’s glowing Turandot revival ✍️ Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-turan...

Abesalom da Eteri in Tbilisi: a glimpse into the Georgian soul ✍️ Dominic Lowe bachtrack.com/review-palia...

Nikola Hillebrand sings a recital @wigmore-hall.org.uk this evening. Here's another chance to read our interview with the German soprano: bachtrack.com/interview-ni...

An inspired triple bill at Fall for Dance became a last-minute quadruple bill @nycitycenter.bsky.social affording New York dance insiders a 2nd glimpse of Parisian étoiles Hugo Marchand and Hannah O'Neill. My review @bachtrack.com (photo: Steven Pisano) bachtrack.com/review-fall-...

Everything. At his best, the answer is: Everything

A city that listens: report from 11th Kobe International Flute Competition ✍️ SangKwon Lee bachtrack.com/feature-kobe...

Dmitri Shostakovich was born on this day in 1906. In this fascinating article, Stephen Johnson asks, what does Shostakovich’s music mean for us today? bachtrack.com/feature-shos...

“I’m a very controlling person, but you cannot control everything!” Choreographer John Neumeier talks about keeping ballet alive ✍️ Deborah Weiss bachtrack.com/interview-jo...

Geometric opera: Blitzstein’s Parabola and Circula takes its bow at Musikfest Berlin ✍️ Zenaida des Aubris bachtrack.com/review-blitz...

Galloping demons: Antonio Pappano and the @londonsymphony.bsky.social in Shostakovich 10 ✍️ Mark Valencia bachtrack.com/review-pappa...

Tremendous energy and engagement from Igor Levit at @wigmore-hall.org.uk ✍️ Patrick Maxwell bachtrack.com/review-igor-...

My fourth Tosca production within a fortnight... and it's the best of the lot: bachtrack.com/review-tosca...

A Rosenkavalier in vivid hues opens the Zurich Opera season ✍️ Laura Servidei bachtrack.com/review-rosen...

Deborah Warner directs a memorable Turn of the Screw in Rome @operaroma.bsky.social ✍️ Pia Maltri bachtrack.com/review-turn-...

Music from the Americas launches the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic season @liverpoolphil.bsky.social ✍️ Peter Connors bachtrack.com/review-hindo...

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra opens season with bagpipes, boldness and brilliance ✍️ Leighton Jones bachtrack.com/review-storg...

Central European visions: Hrůša’s ambitious but uneven Night at Covent Garden ✍️ Mengguang Huang bachtrack.com/review-hrusa...

Toronto Symphony kicks off season with an unusual and effective double bill ✍️ John Gilks bachtrack.com/review-gimen...

A long, strange trip: Opera Philadelphia's Il viaggio a Reims ✍️ Cameron Kelsall bachtrack.com/review-rossi...

Faust’s bargain, Berlioz’s triumph in Montréal’s season launch ✍️ Ian Cochrane bachtrack.com/review-payar...

One unbroken sentence: María Dueñas lets Beethoven breathe at Suntory Hall ✍️ SangKwon Lee bachtrack.com/review-duena...

Lavish gone lacklustre: diminishing returns in The Royal Opera's Sicilian Vespers ✍️ Eleanor Knight bachtrack.com/review-sicil...