25 years ago, Dean Bryant picked up a copy of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, about the AIDS crisis. He has longed to direct a production ever since. Finally, it's happening in Adelaide. He tells us what the play means to him.

Ahead of High Score 2022, composer Jeff van Dyck and orchestrator Nathan Cummins reveal the treasures they uncovered while recording the soundtrack for Submerged: Hidden Depths.

Festival Director Ian Cleworth discusses the inaugural BOOM! International Festival of Percussion, which celebrates percussive beats across the spectrum from cutting-edge art music to Afro-Latin.

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Seven productions from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden form the centrepiece of the new Palace Opera & Ballet season.

A new opera premiering in Mparntwe/Alice Springs follows a day in the life of the formidable Olive Pink.

The creators of three versions of Swan Lake discuss the ballet’s DNA.

Read an extract from The Northern Silence, a new book by Andrew Mellor, which interrogates the Nordic psyche and its impact on composers.

One hundred and fifty years after his birth, we analyse the forging of Ralph Vaughan Williams – the quintessential voice of English music.

There have been so many deluges when he conducts outdoors that Guy Noble is beginning to wonder if he has rain-making powers. As for the bugs he encounters, just open his scores.

Why taking music out of the concert hall has been a key element in Lamorna Nightingale's programming for BackStage Music.

From premieres by Carl Vine and Thomas de Hartmann to Catalani’s La Wally and Jakub Józef Orliński’s Polish songs, it's a month of revelation and discovery with these new classical albums.