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Paris’s Opéra-Comique joins forces with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in louche yet explosive Bizet; Yuja Wang thrills with eight encores; and Stuart Skelton leads a classic Wagner revival

Nestled deep in the Sussex countryside, Glyndebourne has been attracting opera fans for almost a century. This year, its flagship summer festival coincides with a celebration of the company’s 90th anniversary. This is no small feat, given the harsh economic climate and challenges UK opera companies face to keep the…

One of Britain’s greatest conductors widely admired for leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms

Musician had held top roles at Glyndebourne opera and in Chicago, Melbourne and Toronto orchestras

Hungarian conductor of modernist music who went on to compose operas with texts ranging from Three Sisters to Angels in America

The Albert Hall swooned to the sound of the Sinfonia of London and was silenced by Glyndebourne’s semi-staged Poulenc, while in Oxford you couldn’t move for great pianists

Director Adele Thomas invites us to look at the myth in a different way

Three activists use glitter cannons and air horns during performance of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites

Never has Poulenc’s masterpiece seemed so searingly a work of our time