Thunder deity at the Elbphilharmonie: NDR opens new Hamburg season @elbphilharmonie.de ✍️ Mengguang Huang bachtrack.com/review-gilbe...

Thunder deity at the Elbphilharmonie: NDR opens new Hamburg season ✍️ Mengguang Huang bachtrack.com/review-gilbe...

Intense and authentic Vaughan Williams from Andrew Manze and @liverpoolphil.bsky.social at the BBC Proms ✍️ Chris Garlick bachtrack.com/review-manze...

Musical triumph meets voyeuristic violence in Carsen’s Pag & Cav at Dutch National Opera ✍️ Monique ten Boske bachtrack.com/review-pagli...

Martha Argerich delights the Royal Albert Hall with crisp Beethoven (and Ravel) at the Munich Philharmonic's Prom ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-arger...

She came. She saw. She conquered. Radoslava Vorgić’s Cleopatra impresses in Grimeborn’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto at the @arcolatheatre.bsky.social ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-hande...

Kirill Petrenko and the @berliner-philharmoniker.de demonstrate their world-class status at the BBC Proms ✍️ Nick Boston bachtrack.com/review-petre...

Shostakovich provides a searing start to the new Czech Philharmonic season ✍️ Frank Kuznik bachtrack.com/review-bychk...

Rising Stars: Ten to watch in 2026–27 As the new season begins, our editor picks ten exciting young talents to watch out for! ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/feature-risi...

Storm and stress: Amanda Forsythe on Georg Philipp Telemann’s Ino bachtrack.com/about-a-work...

Fragility and power at New York's Battery Dance Festival 2026 ✍️ Carla Escoda bachtrack.com/review-batte...

Strauss and orchestral grandeur as Welser-Möst begins his Cleveland Orchestra farewell ✍️ Sam Jacobson bachtrack.com/review-welse...

Skybound Scriabin, backward-looking Beethoven from the Berlin Phil in Edinburgh @edintfest.bsky.social ✍️ Simon Thompson bachtrack.com/review-petre...

A less than grand Macabre: Musikfest Berlin opens its new edition with Ligeti ✍️ Elena Luporini bachtrack.com/review-liget...

Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust diabolically good at the Proms ✍️ Mark Valencia bachtrack.com/review-berli...

The price of war: Noa Naamat’s powerful Aida opens the season in Helsinki ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-aida-...

The Met Orchestra and Nézet-Séguin tame the Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms ✍️ David Karlin bachtrack.com/review-nezet...

The price of war: Noa Naamat’s powerful Aida opens the season in Helsinki ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-aida-...

Zurich Opera’s brooding Ballo in maschera at the Edinburgh International Festival @edintfest.bsky.social ✍️ David Smythe bachtrack.com/review-ballo...

Elza van den Heever’s Salome soars and The Met Orchestra glows in BBC Proms debuts ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-nezet...

The Old World and the New: Alain Altinoglu and Gautier Capuçon at the BBC Proms ✍️ Christopher Woodley bachtrack.com/review-altin...

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Ihsane at the Edinburgh Festival: a quietly lovely show @edintfest.bsky.social ✍️ Kathy Elgin bachtrack.com/review-ihsan...

Double bleak: Opera Prelude compares and contrasts Bernstein and Weill ✍️ David Karlin bachtrack.com/review-berns...

Amid turmoil, the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social delivers a stirring Dvořak 8 ✍️ Cameron Kelsall bachtrack.com/review-wilki...

Jamie Barton and Clay Hilley ride the waves for Mahler's epic farewell at the BBC Proms ✍️ Nick Boston bachtrack.com/review-bihlm...

Excellent performance of Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel in Adelaide ✍️ Sandra Bowdler bachtrack.com/review-hanse...

César Morales’ Ballet de Santiago takes flight in Dublin Swan Lake ✍️ Graham Watts bachtrack.com/review-swan-...

A rare chance to catch the complete Song of Hiawatha at the Edinburgh International Festival with @osmconcerts.bsky.social abs Edinburgh Festival Chorus. @bachtrack.com was there bachtrack.com/review-coler...

Coleridge-Taylor’s The Song of Hiawatha reappraised at the Edinburgh International Festival @edintfest.bsky.social @osmconcerts.bsky.social ✍️ David Smythe bachtrack.com/review-coler...

The death has been announced of the Romanian soprano Ileana Cotrubaș at the age of 87. bachtrack.com/news-ileana-...