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Spent most of yesterday driving to and from Aldeburgh with the OH to experience a very special night of Strauss and Elgar at the Snape Proms...

Sibelius with his piano. Photo: sibelius.fi I'm off to Birmingham tomorrow to give a pre-concert talk about Sibelius for the CBSO (...

Photos both by Richard Hubert Smith Yesterday Edward Gardner took his final bow as music director of English National Opera after the l...

It's the deadline from hell. If Benvenuto Cellini hasn't cast his golden Perseus statue by morning, the Pope will have him hanged...

Sobs in sunny Sheen today upon the news that Edward Gardner is leaving English National Opera. The highlights of his stint as music direct...

A fascinating business, this: coming back from that very Beethoveny trip to Bonn and landing bang in the middle of Calixto Bieito's prod...

"Welcome back, boys." Wozzeck and his captain are centre stage in the pub. The first is nervous, surly, moving too fast, the la...

I've enjoyed taking a trip down an operatic memory lane for Sinfini, plus talking to a range of celebs about their first experiences of ...

Edward Gardner, music director of ENO, is to be the new chief conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic. He starts his three-year tenure in 2015 ...

My interview with English National Opera's artistic director, John Berry, attempted to address a few tough questions. The company has wo...

It's a bumper year for classical music and opera in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for the Diamond Jubilee. As if perhaps someon...

Tomorrow evening I am doing a pre-concert talk about Szymanowski at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, where the doughty CBSO, Ed Gardner and friend...

If you only do one thing in London over the next few weeks, make it this: go and see Der Rosenkavalier at ENO . The opening night on Satu...