


Getting to know him properly: Skylla und Charybdis.To stay true to yourself: I chat to soprano Kathar.A Life On-Line: Horror for in Belfast, Suor Angeli.Awaken: the National Centre for Early Music celebr.Holy Week Festival at Saint John's Smith Square.50 minutes of delight: Ravel's L'heure espagnole f.Beyond Beethoven: Anneke Scott and Steven Devine e.Giving Gluck's Paride ed Elena its due: Bampton Cl.Rising to the challenge: the East Neuk Festival re.A castrato in Ireland: Tara Erraught, Peter Whelan.Connected Skies: six new works from composer Angel.Gustav Hoyer's Terra, the Bringer of Life.From Handel's Tamerlano to Walther's Scherzi da vi.From Monteverdi & Cavalli to Abba: 'Rebirth' from.Keeping On: The Knights' new video and annotated s.From Corwall to Cumbria, Southend to Scotland by w.A musical microcosm of 2020: Isolation Songbook fr.He can chisel a mood from just a few bars: pianist.A Life On-Line: Spring is in the air! NCEM, Leeds.Opera, systemic racism, mass incarceration: White.Young person’s award for innovation: student's pro.Super-excellent Gabrieli and RVW on viols: Nationa.A Healing Fire: Greek guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou.The Adam Mickiewicz Institute invites you to explo.Sound Generator: Sound UK announces first artists.Proud Songsters: a survey of English song by ten d.10 years ago today my opera When a Man Knows got i.⚫ Florian Klaus Rumpf : takes us on A Mandolin's Guide to Hamburg ⚫ Seductive craziness: loosely inspired by Martial and Aristophanes, the opera Xeniae by Latvian composer Juris Ābols is a polystylistic extravaganza ⚫ Different ways of doing things: Michael Wolters' Aria Cuntata and the Low Miracles from Birmingham Record Company ⚫ Matthew Whiteside's Remixes: Crossing boundaries between contemporary classical, experimental electronic, ambient and electroacoustic ⚫ The songs of William Busch: revealing the quietly distinctive voice of an underexplored composer ⚫ Two moments in time: String Orchestra of Brooklyn with a work written for 2020's Lockdown, and another evoking the opening of Honolulu's contemporary art museum in 1980 ⚫ Colour and movement: Gilbert & Sullivan returns to Opera Holland Park with HMS Pinafore ⚫ Operatic wit & style in West End: Donizetti's Rita at Charing Cross Theatre ⚫ Ethel Smyth in lighter mode: The Boatswain's Mate returns to the Grimeborn Festival ⚫ Prom 39: a Turnage premiere, a Vaughan Williams rarity and an Elgar Symphony ⚫ Prom 43: Handel's Solomon from Sofi Jeannin, BBC Singers, The English Concert and Iestyn Davies


⚫ Spirit and abandon: Ethel Smyth's Mass at the BBC Proms returns the work home, to the hall where it premiered in 1891 ⚫ Warmth and humanity: British Youth Opera celebrates its 35th anniversary with Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love ⚫ A light touch and some rattling good tunes: Puccini's La rondine from IF Opera at Belcombe Court ⚫ Devastating intensity: Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius from Allan Clayton, London Philharmonic, Edward Gardner at Prom 59
