We (I and Guildhall students, led by Lana Bode) have been powering our way through three weeks’ worth of workshops covering my song...

British Youth Opera is now just over 30 years old, and for a long time I’ve looked forward eagerly to their yearly offering, two operas...

Valvona & Crolla is many people’s favourite Edinburgh shop, an old-fashioned Italian deli which has been at the top of Leith Walk since...

It seems very bad form (although ubiquitous on YouTube) for singers to photograph the conductor in mid-performance, but that’s what James...

Living on the periphery of the choral music world, I’m aware that there's a lot of reasonably good singing going on in the UK. It’s an...

Monday’s concert of Masters of The Queen’s Music from Sir Edward Elgar up to myself was given in the remarkable Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,...

This week’s first church visit has been to St Mary-le-Bow, which was smashed to smithereens in 1941 but is now a bright, confident...