An Icelandic record-breaking composer made history – again – earlier this week when she picked up a GRAMMY for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media … Read more
Following the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Kronos Quartet have released a video for Beebopterismo, a track from Sun Rings in collaboration with composer … Read more
Finish conductor Pietari Inkinen will make his debut at Bayreuth Festival next year when he conducts a new production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. The four operas will … Read more
The five-time Oscar winning film composer and conductor, John Williams, has teamed up with violinist friend and collaborator Anne-Sophie Mutter for a new album. Across The Stars … Read more
Opera Rara and Britten Sinfonia will collaborate for the first time to present a concert performance of Donizetti’s Il Paria. Conducted by Opera Rara’s artistic … Read more
The Opera Story will premiere 25-year-old composer Dani Howard’s first opera, Robin Hood, in Peckham on Wednesday 27 February. Performed over three floors in the … Read more
A British composer has made history as the first woman to take the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for her life-long service to music – … Read more
New opera ID, Please took on a shocking realism for its female British-Iranian composer at the height of Trump’s “Muslim Ban”. Here Soosan Lolavar writes … Read more
Composer and writer Shirley J Thompson explains how she is bringing history to life in modern opera – and finding brand new audiences in the … Read more
Acclaimed composer Hannah Kendall has never knowingly experienced discrimination, but asks: would she know if she had? As far as I’m aware, I have never … Read more
