It is a shame that The Makropulos Affair is not more popular with audiences. The music is Janáček at his peak, an intricate patchwork of fast-moving ideas and emotions spurred by reactions to the text ...

Simon Rattle is returning to the Philadelphia Orchestra after a decade. New works are being unveiled by Spirited Away composer Joe Hisaishi. And a major orchestral piece by Leonard Bernstein is ...

Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2004 - United Archives GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo Simon Rattle is perhaps Britain’s greatest living conductor. He achieved eminence at an age when many in ...

The tension barely let up for two hours as Rattle led the London Symphony Orchestra and a commanding cast through this vital account of Janáček’s opera.

But this great German orchestra now has a special attraction for British audiences, because it’s led by our very own Simon Rattle. He has ascended to the ranks of those senior conductors who’ve ...

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Opening her LSO Artist Portrait series, Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Béla Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto before Rattle and ...

As Adès premieres an orchestral work, “The Exterminating Angel” is receiving something rare in contemporary opera: a new production. By Joshua Barone Not everything was an artistic or audience success ...