One of those evenings of opera when I needed a sixth star. bachtrack.com/review-strau...

This afternoon, a chance to watch the new Tobias Kratzer production of Die Walküre from the Bayerische Staatsoper: bachtrack.com/opera-video/... 📸© Monika Rittershaus

Glyndebourne's Billy Budd makes a welcome return, fresh and devastating as ever ✍️ Nick Boston bachtrack.com/review-billy...

An updated Poppea crowned in Melbourne ✍️ Sandra Bowdler bachtrack.com/review-monte...

This year celebrated Scottish tenor Nicky Spence returns to the BBC Proms to perform in Oberon – and at the Last Night. But how does he feel about all the flag-waving? ✍️ Kevin Ng bachtrack.com/interview-ni...

Anthony Negus conducts a vigorous, vivid Tristan und Isolde in the Cotswolds ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-trist...

Bel canto brilliance: Lisette Oropesa the jewel in Covent Garden’s new Puritani crown at the Royal Opera ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-purit...

A hole in the heart: Johannes Erath’s new Elektra grips Tokyo ✍️ Yukiko Kishinami bachtrack.com/review-elekt...

Minimalism, momentum and majesty from Ludovic Morlot and the BBC Philharmonic at Blackpool Opera House: ✍️ Leighton Jones bachtrack.com/review-morlo...

An idyllic evening at Jacob's Pillow kicked off the summer season at the longest-running international dance festival in the United States. My review of Paul Taylor Dance in a triple bill of blockbusters @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/22/270/list-... (Photo: Grace Copeland)

Cheap laughs in Staatsoper Berlin’s new Entführung aus dem Serail ✍️ Zenaida des Aubris bachtrack.com/review-entfu...

Birds on the Moon: a moving tribute at ChamberFest Cleveland ✍️ Frank Kuznik bachtrack.com/review-haydn...

Speranza Scappucci and Rosa Feola lead a compelling Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala ✍️ Laura Servidei bachtrack.com/review-lucia...

Utter joy: Grange Park Opera's Barbiere is a hit ✍️ Dominic Lowe bachtrack.com/review-barbi...

Talent to burn: the Woolf Quartet dazzles at the Bradfield Festival ✍️ Phil Parker bachtrack.com/review-woolf...

The significance of place: Sean Shibe’s ‘Electric Twilight’ at the Aldeburgh Festival ✍️ Pwyll ap Sion bachtrack.com/review-sean-...

Ruzan Mantashyan’s compelling Tatyana makes the Grange Festival’s new Eugene Onegin completely unmissable ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-eugen...

Rocío Molina in Calentamiento: a ferocious and fearless performer @sadlerswells.bsky.social ✍️ Zoë Anderson bachtrack.com/review-rocio...

Maxim Emelyanychev, Steven Isserlis and the OAE party like it’s 1897 ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-emely...

Catching the spiritual. Meditative programme from @scomusic.bsky.social Chorus in the ancient Holy Trinity Church St Andrews. Fine Glass, Tavener, MacMillan and Duruflé. Read about it @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/review-batsl...

Three Peters for the price of one: Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann at Deutsche Oper Berlin ✍️ Elena Luporini bachtrack.com/review-lortz...

Renato Dolcini on an Italian tour with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra ✍️ Sandra Bowdler bachtrack.com/review-dolci...

Facing the ghost of Maria Callas: Greek National Opera’s Medea at Epidaurus ✍️ Anna Bogdanova bachtrack.com/review-calla...

Apollonian radiance and women scorned: the @brittensinfonia.bsky.social at the Aldeburgh Festival ✍️ Roy Westbrook

One moon, three waters: Yunchan Lim's Mozart with Camerata Salzburg in Seoul ✍️ SangKwon Lee bachtrack.com/review-yunch...

Acosta Danza Yunior at @Sadlers_Wells East: fabulous dancers, uneven choreography ✍️ Deborah Weiss bachtrack.com/review-acost...

Lorenzo Viotti and the Vienna Philharmonic find magic in Zemlinsky’s Mermaid ✍️ Chanda VanderHart bachtrack.com/review-viott...

Brilliant but harrowing: 10 Days in a Madhouse receives Canadian premiere @tapestryopera.bsky.social ✍️ John Gilks bachtrack.com/review-orth-...

One moon, three waters: Yunchan Lim's Mozart with Camerata Salzburg in Seoul ✍️ SangKwon Lee bachtrack.com/review-yunch...

“Shifting shades of twilight, moonlight and starlight were delicately evoked”: Quatuor Diotima and Stéphane Degout haunt @wigmore-hall.org.uk ✍️ Christopher Woodley bachtrack.com/review-quatu...

Galați Cenerentola lights up the Bucharest stage ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-cener...

No composer in the 20th century adapted his style as much as Igor Stravinsky, born OTD in 1882. Here are our top ten Stravinsky works. Your favourites? bachtrack.com/playlist-igo...

An American cornucopia from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony ✍️ Sam Jacobson bachtrack.com/review-honec...

Taking Beethoven’s quartets to a new level: Quatuor Ébène in Tokyo ✍️ Nahoko Gotoh bachtrack.com/review-quatu...

Tumultuous Mahler 2 season finale from the BBC Philharmonic ✍️ Rohan Shotton bachtrack.com/review-storg...

Dame Imogen Cooper bows out with Mozart at the Glasshouse ✍️ Nick Butters bachtrack.com/review-sousa...

Collegium Musicum: great entertainment from the Bach Akademie Australia ✍️ Sandra Bowdler bachtrack.com/review-colle...

Russian fairy tales: Boreyko and Hornung make impressive Sydney Symphony debuts ✍️ Zoltán Szabó bachtrack.com/review-borey...

National Dance Awards 2025 winners celebrated in London bachtrack.com/news-nationa...

Kingʼs Birthday Honours awarded to musicians and dancers bachtrack.com/news-kings-b...

L'Orfeo, the world's first great opera, premieres at Glyndebourne ✍️ Roy Westbrook bachtrack.com/review-monte...

A thrilling Slavic Iolanta from Chișinău to open the Bucharest Opera Festival ✍️ Peter Quantrill bachtrack.com/review-iolan...

Glenn Branca’s Hallucination City: the glory and fury of 100 electric guitars at @lincolncenter.bsky.social #SummerForTheCity ✍️ Kurt Gottschalk bachtrack.com/review-branc...

Total immersion: Aldeburgh Festival dives in at the deep end with Pelléas and Mélisande in a semi-staging by Rory Kinnear ✍️ Eleanor Knight bachtrack.com/review-pelle...

Anna Geniushene impresses Singapore audience with early Chopin and Brahms ✍️ Chang Tou Liang bachtrack.com/review-anna-...

Lise Davidsen's exquisite Schubert Lieder at the Aldeburgh Festival ✍️ Eleanor Knight bachtrack.com/review-lise-...

Darkness without passion: Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen arrives at La Scala ✍️ Laura Servidei bachtrack.com/review-carme...

Joy unbounded: Beethoven 9 ends the @rsno.bsky.social’s season with blockbuster flair ✍️ Simon Thompson bachtrack.com/review-hahn-...

Monteverdi and Ulisse return happily to @GarsingtonOpera ✍️ David Karlin bachtrack.com/review-monte...

A tale of one city: Franz Welser-Möst celebrates Vienna with the @berliner-philharmoniker.de ✍️ Elena Luporini bachtrack.com/review-welse...