First performed on January 20, 1699, André Campra's comic opera/ballet Le Carnaval de Venise to a libretto by Jean-François Regnard finally arrives at its UK premiere in late Summer 2025 at the Vache Baroque Summer Festival. It is sung in French, Italian and English, a heady mix

Alexander's Feast, HWV 75 (1742 version)  Librettist: John Dryden  Performers:  Hilary Cronin (soprano) - Hugh Cutting (counter-tenor) - Stuart Jackson (tenor)  Conductor – Peter Whelan; Irish Baroque Chorus & Orchestra  Royal Albert Hall, London, 30 August 2025  Performances of Handel’s Alexander’s Feast don’t come along too

Editorial Tolerance is possibly our Salvation "Marks & Spencer’s has apologised to a mother for causing her teenage daughter “distress” after she was asked if she needed help by a transgender employee in its bra section”, writes the Daily Telegraph and both the fact that M&S

It used to be a fairly rare treat to hear Suor Angelica, but of late there have been a number of significant stagings. Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten is rarer still, at least on these shores; putting the two together was inspired. They intersect via dates of composition: Die Frau,

PROMS 2025: Varèse, Thovaldsdottir, Ravel, Stravinsky Johannes Moser (cello); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Eva Ollikainen (conductor). Royal lbert Hall, 13.08.2025 Varèse  Intégales (1924/25)  Thorvaldsdottir Before We Fall (2024, UK premiere)  Ravel   Boléro (1928)  Stravinsky  Le sacre du primtemps (1911-13)    Wha a tempting array of music: for 20th-Century nerds

Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L'Itinéraire: Les Délices de l'Âme Ensemble Amarine Belladiva (Zuzana Badáová, soprano; Michaela Ambrosi, transverse flute; Barbara Maria Willi, harpsichord). Rauzet Priory, Combiers, France, 02.08.2025   Michel de la Barre Suite IX:  Sonata, L’inconnue, Prélude; Vivement.  Jacquet de la Guerre

Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025: L'Itinéraire: Opening Recital Sonata and Fantasy Gerard de Wit (origan); Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucout, France, 02.08.2025   Bach Prelude and Fugue in F, BWV 559. Jesu, meine Freude, BWV Anh. 58. Pachelbel Hexachodum Apollinis, 1699: Chaconne in D.  Telemann Fantasia

Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 (2): La Roche Baroque (2): Les Éléments Capella de la Torre / Katharina Bäuml (shawm / director). 9 pm, Église Saint Théodore de la Rochebeaucourt, Périgord, France, 01.08.2025  Air  Anonymous O che nuovo miracoio. Chaconne. The dark is my delight  Estebao da Brita Lucis Creator

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is interesting firstly in that they boast beautiful vintage instruments and they perform Tchaikovsky with unwound gut brings nd period bows. It is the continuation of a journey begun in 2020 when the Dudoks used gut strings to explore the complete string quartets of Brahms for