New initiatives from Ensemble Offspring, Pinchgut Opera and Strange Bedfellows are among the recipients.

How public and private music shaped life with the Virgin Queen.

Finding his feet in his newly adopted country, the Russian composer was game for anything.

Castorf’s take on Janáček’s prison opera sure involves a lot of cooks.

In his final column, Clive Paget recommends Glass at the Met, OA's Turandot, and a handful of European gems.

Clive Paget recommends a week with the Vienna State Opera, Glyndebourne's Vanessa, and asks who's afraid of Arnold Schoenberg?

Clive Paget recommends an Australian Butterfly, a resurrected Austrian miracle and six of the best from Belgium.

The founder of The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen tells us about his new Finger album, Limelight's Recording of the Month in June.

Let’s hear it at last for “The Ingenious Mr Finger”.

Clive Paget recommends modern masterpieces from the Met, Rattle’s damnable Faust, and a seven-year-old Yo-Yo.

Pierre Audi’s minimalist Tristan throws welcome focus on voices.

Nothing rotten in this modern-dress take on Shakespeare’s Dane.