A royal visit: HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh visited the University of Bristol on Thursday to learn about a world-leading ...

We can’t Handel the scandal! In a dishy new book, Anya Gillinson spills the b-flat majors on her affair with now-husband Sir Clive Gillinson, the famed director of Carnegie Hall, which ...

Like a modern Grand Tour, the John Hall Venice course promises to open (wealthy) young minds to Italy’s artistic treasures ...

When the world-renowned English chamber orchestra the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields takes the stage at Mechanics Hall ...

For fans of classical music and opera, this summer’s festivals offer some of the best excuses for a short luxury break.

The Manx Festival Chorus is set to perform two contrasting choral works on the same afternoon this weekend. The Chorus will ...

After a “lifelong resistance” to getting older, Chris Mirams explains how his grudging acceptance of aging has come with a few surprises. It’s lodged in my mind and won’t budge. Recently I was heading ...

We can’t Handel the scandal! In a dishy new book, Anya Gillinson spills the b-flat majors on her affair with now-husband Sir Clive Gillinson, the famed director of Carnegie Hall, which scandalized ...

The Master of the King’s or Queen’s Music is a post in the Royal Household, similar to that of Poet Laureate, granted to an outstanding musician. It is generally expected that the holder of the post ...

She was invited back the following year for a larger role in Alexander’s Feast by Handel, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, then she and her husband went on several tours of the United States and ...

Last year, on International Women’s Day, Memories and the then mayor, Cllr Jan Cossins, unveiled a blue plaque on the home of Clara Curtis Lucas, in Abbey Road, who was Darlington’s first female ...