How the Glaswegian pianist and serial husband became classical music’s Henry VIII.

Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald add sparkle to Michael Tilson Thomas's easy-going opening.

A fiercely authentic Benjamin Bagby enthralls with an ancient tale of heroes and horrors from the Northlands.

Test cantatas and a minor masterpiece see light at last.

Rossini’s Full Monty: Opera Rara restores a mature masterpiece in toto.

The British conductor talks to us about Mozart in London, Limelight's Recording of the Month in September.

The Canadian baritone tells us about getting to grips with J Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams' Doctor Atomic, our Recording of the Month in October.

A night of considerable musical promise as New Yorkers get to know their 26th Music Director.

With catcalls and pregnancy jokes, Madama Butterfly nearly fluttered by altogether.

Mason Bates’ operatic bio takes a mega-byte out of a certain big Apple.

As a revival of Hal Prince’s original staging of Evita heads for Australia, Sir Tim Rice explains how a dangerously glamorous Argentinian dictator turned out to be surprisingly good for him.

A stunning Elektra, Salome and much more, the last great singer of her generation passes at 101.