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...

Singapore’s Got Talent! Three President’s Young Performers hit the jackpot ✍️ Chang Tou Liang bachtrack.com/review-presi...

Dances of reinvention: Măcelaru and the ONF at the Enescu Festival ✍️ Edward Sava-Segal bachtrack.com/review-macel...

Into the labyrinth: opera and community in Jonathan Dove’s The Monster in the Maze ✍️ Simon Holden bachtrack.com/review-dove-...

Oliver Leith’s Garland: dreamlike chaos in a Peckham car park ✍️ Marat Ingeldeev bachtrack.com/review-leith...

Steel and sparks: Stikhina, Tézier and Tetelman outstanding in Wallmann’s classic Vienna Tosca ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-tosca...

Dramatic French flair from Thibaudet, Mäkelä and the @concertgborkest.bsky.social ✍️ Clare Varney bachtrack.com/review-makel...

Victory Symphonies? Pappano and the @londonsymphony.bsky.social in Leningrad and Vienna ✍️ Roy Westbrook bachtrack.com/review-pappa...

Pitch perfect in Berlin: Kirill Petrenko conducts Dusapin, Zimmermann and Brahms @berliner-philharmoniker.de ✍️ Elena Luporini bachtrack.com/review-petre...

Fate as ritual: Enescu’s Œdipe at the Bucharest National Opera ✍️ Edward Sava-Segal bachtrack.com/review-oedip...

Fabio Luisi opens NHKSO's new season with Franz Schmidt's Fourth Symphony ✍️ Nahoko Gotoh bachtrack.com/review-luisi...

From the sublime to the rambunctious: Marc-André Hamelin in Sydney recital ✍️ Zoltán Szabó bachtrack.com/review-marc-...

High-caliber Schumann and Mahler from the Staatskapelle Dresden at the Dvořák Prague Festival ✍️ Frank Kuznik bachtrack.com/review-gatti...

“When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping...” Maria Callas died OTD in 1977. Our playlist picks out ten of her greatest roles: bachtrack.com/playlist-top...

“External goals... I find the internal ones much more beautiful.” Read our interview with mezzo-soprano Patricia Nolz ✍️ Elisabeth Schwarz bachtrack.com/interview-pa...

Pappano and the @londonsymphony.bsky.social launch the new season with gripping Bernstein and Copland ✍️ Christopher Woodley bachtrack.com/review-pappa...

Taking risks that pay off at the Enescu Festival ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-gioco...

Masked marvels and Venetian mischief: Cavalli’s Pompeo Magno at Bayreuth Baroque ✍️ Mengguang Huang bachtrack.com/review-caval...

Captivating Bartók, inspired Ives: Dudamel opens the New York Philharmonic season @nyphilharmonic.bsky.social ✍️ Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-dudam...

Doomed spirits and sorrowful lovers, black comedy and the abyss into Hell: Mark and Elisabeth pick their Dante Alighieri (died OTD) top ten: bachtrack.com/playlist-dan...

From darkness into light: the life and work of Dante Alighieri (who died OTD in 1321) ✍️ Alexandra Richter bachtrack.com/feature-dant...

A thrilling Daphnis et Chloé on the penultimate night at the BBC Proms ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-wilso...

Triskaidekaphobe Arnold Schoenberg was born on 13th September 1874 (and died Friday 13th July 1951). Enjoy our top ten playlist: bachtrack.com/playlist-top...

Bach on the street, Klimt in the forest: the Enescu Festival goes immersive ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-break...

Belgian festival cancels Munich Philharmonic over Israeli conductor bachtrack.com/news-flander...

A new Tosca from The Royal Opera: Anna Netrebko returns, with a vengeance ✍️ David Karlin bachtrack.com/review-tosca...

Heft and delicacy: the @Philharmonia makes its Lammermuir Festival debut ✍️ Simon Thompson bachtrack.com/review-osbor...

“The human voice, and I mean by that the human in the voice, meets a very specific need in me.” Happy 90th birthday to Arvo Pärt! 🥳 bachtrack.com/interview-mi...

Unseduced: Don Giovanni opens the Budapest Festival Orchestra season ✍️ Orsolya Gyárfás bachtrack.com/review-don-g...

Big birthdays: the @philharmonialondon.bsky.social celebrates 80 years in 2025–26 bachtrack.com/interview-ph...

Beauty of sound dilutes the passion in Welser-Möst and the Vienna Philharmonic's Tchaikovsky ✍️ Nick Boston bachtrack.com/review-welse...

Jonathan Watkins’ A Single Man pierces the heart at the Linbury ✍️ Deborah Weiss bachtrack.com/review-a-sin...

Dark visions and a glimpse of Paradise: the Vienna Philharmonic enthrals at the BBC Proms ✍️ Christopher Woodley bachtrack.com/review-welse...

In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the George Enescu International Festival ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-kurta...

“If it’s good music, I want to do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s Mozart or Varèse or Tippett – if it’s quality, it fits.” Obituary: Christoph von Dohnányi bachtrack.com/news-christo...

Humoresque: Op. 101, No. 7… Probably the only piece I truly loved when I studied violin as a child.

I Fagiolini make their Lammermuir Festival debut with Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers ✍️ Simon Thompson bachtrack.com/review-holli...