- 25 October 2025
Well, what has Oscar Wilde got to do with early music? It’s complicated but it...
- 23 October 2025
Viols of all sizes were very popular in Tudor and Stuart Britain but they fell...
- 22 October 2025
Craig Jordan-Baker discusses his new book Brick Dust, exploring themes of family, hoarding, and the...
- 20 October 2025
Isn’t it rather naughty to be obsessed with nuns? Well, when their music is so...
- 20 October 2025
There’s a very good reason that Coleridge-Taylor’s work was so popular 100 years ago, and...
Reviews
ELLEN KENT OPERA: La Boheme & Madama Butterfly
- 27 April 2023
I’m going to start with words not about the two performances this week but about...
Home, I’m Darling
- 12 April 2023
There are moments when I successfully manage to avoid reading too much about a new...
It’s all Greek to me
- 10 April 2023
I’ve long protested at the general belief that a visit to the theatre or a...






