The instruments not only balanced perfectly with the voices, but gave us some delectable textures of sound – edginess from ...

In the first few decades of the 18 th century, the chattering classes of British cities were obsessed by Italian music – enjoyment of its elegance and sophistication (with just ...

Jetske Mijnssen’s new staging of Ariodante arrives with a clear conceptual stamp: Handel reframed as a Chekhovian family ...