Why do we have to keep watching this story? Because productions like this one reveal its appalling mechanisms. For @bachtrack bachtrack.com/review-britt...

'Most innovative and heartwarming collaboration.' 4* review from @eleanorknight.bsky.social at @bachtrack.com for Saturday's fantastic concert with Brett Dean, @lottebettsdean.bsky.social and the @auroraorchestra.bsky.social

Aiming high: Hugh Cutting on Handel, good storytelling and countertenor appeal ✍️ @eleanorknight.bsky.social bachtrack.com/interview-hu...

What a total pleasure to talk storytelling with brilliant counter-tenor Hugh Cutting for @bachtrack.com. Catch him and a stellar cast in Partenope at ENO.

Just as the Katie Mitchell headlines recede, opera says 'hold my beer' - AGAIN Stikhina and Clayton shine in DNO's uneven Maid of Orleans | Bachtrack share.google/7jywp02Pdayi...

My review now in...@OperaNow Janáček: Káťa Kabanová at Glyndebourne | Live Review | Gramophone share.google/yLqrwCkVWwim...

Well done, Jeff! @wildtwin.bsky.social

So we're saying The Salt Path is peppered with inaccuracies?

bachtrack.com/22/296/view/28 I spent a dark and stormy night in Holland Park for @bachtrack.com

Death by omelette: Palazzetto Bru Zane uncovers the lost Bizet ✍️ @eleanorknight.bsky.social bachtrack.com/interview-al...

Bizet meets beef stock. A delight to talk music and crockery with Alexandre Dratwicki for @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/22/271/view/...

This May, the world’s leading orchestras and soloists gather in Amsterdam for a grand celebration of all things Mahler – a city the composer described as his “second musical homeland”. ✍️ @eleanorknight.bsky.social bachtrack.com/interview-ma...

I loved the new @philipvenables.bsky.social opera at DNO, Amsterdam bachtrack.com/22/296/view/...

I will be listening to no further news bulletins at this time.

Look, I don't always mention underwear... Here's why the youth need Schumann's Paradise & the Peri. And a pleasure to talk to Laurence Equilbey and Daniela Kerck for @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/22/271/view/...

Heads should have rolled in Riga long before curtain up. My bit for @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/22/296/view/...

Such a pleasure to talk to the creative team behind a new commission for Dutch National Opera. Oum: A son's quest for his mother www.gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/fe...

À partir de jeudi, hommage à la grande Oum Kalthoum à la Philharmonie. philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/magazine/...

My bit for @bachtrack.com on Royal Opera's almighty Jenůfa. bachtrack.com/review-jenuf...

Looking forward to winter weather.

I may be a late adopter, but goodness me, this is my dream podcast. All the things we talk about when we talk about clothes, and what we say with - or without - them. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

My night out in Amsterdam for @bachtrack.com

Sinterklaas's little helper just arrived for the ultimate Christmas party #DieFledermaus Dutch National Opera

I have found the restoration of Notre Dame profoundly moving. The renaissance of ancient crafts that might otherwise have dwindled. Hundreds working together in a glorious expression of skill and beauty, all in the service of something none of us understands. And now this. Reader, I lost it.

Elizabeth Bowen. Queen of grown-ups.

Thankyou, Ian McEwan, I have just lost my breakfast.

There's always one attention seeker.

A glimpse of blue sky this morning.

ENO serving up their Elixir in bright colours... bachtrack.com/review-elixi...