Marie Antoinette and her favourite composers

Errollyn Wallen and the First Night of the Proms

Operatic feasts of every kind

100 years after his death Giacomo Puccini is still in the top ten

Book review of a new biography by Simon Morrison

Period instruments and people who play them

Oxford International Song Festival

Book review of a history of song by John Potter

A round-up of the summer opera season

William Byrd 400 years after his death

Festive moments in opera

More than just a support act

How the Ballets Russes enthralled the world

Spaces and buildings are a deep inspiration

Radio is an intimate medium, an antidote to dark times

It’s essential to me to live the role, not merely to play it

The exhilarating music of oratorios

An epic feat of logistical planning

Siegfried and La Bohème

Puccini’s La rondine

Longborough Festival

Itch: world premiere 2023

HB chooses a personal favourite

Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister

There was a Rosenkavalier train, Rosenkavalier cigarettes and Rosenkavalier champagne

It’s never too late to learn

Wagner's Siegfried – from wild child to hero

Bizet's Carmen – the failure that wasn’t