As we wrap up 2025, here is a look back at some of the most-read articles of the year. We will focus mainly on longer-form pieces like reviews and interviews for this article.

Yuval Sharon will leave the financially strained Detroit Opera after this season. In March, he brings his unorthodox vision ...

What began as a singular voice soon became a body of work defined by elegance, emotion and global resonance, with songs that ...

After their success on the most important Italian opera stages and in concert halls across Europe, four Italian sopranos – ...

The historic Hoghton Tower was bathed in flickering candlelight on Monday evening as Carols by Candlelight brought festive music to its Banqueting Hall.

The piece goes beyond "The Four Seasons" and explores some great, rarely heard arias from the composer's many operas. The ...

Most of Poland’s symphony orchestras and opera companies invite music fans to special New Year’s Eve concerts featuring a ...

Five decades in, Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega-musical has an infuriating storyline and an impressive everything else. Cue the chandelier.

Traditionally when you think of what an opera is, visions of four hour long extravaganzas with beautiful singing but with ...

With intriguing glimpses of vulnerability, there has been none better in this production since it was first mounted more than four decades ago ...

English National Opera’s 2020 production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madam Butterfly - Corbis Entertainment Among all the composers whose operas have continued to enthral audiences, Giacomo Puccini ...

What can I say? The kids are onto something here. If you’ve been avoiding this band – or their songwriter, Cameron Winter – because of overhype, I have to say you’re missing out on something really ...