Of all the abductions, this one is different.

The Proms 2025 may be over, but there’s still time to catch up on the highlights at home. With 86 concerts on offer, there is something for everyone – from Beethoven symphonies to an eight-hour Prom ...

Bringing Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra back to the BBC Proms, last night’s concert offered a programme of Beethoven’s "Symphony No. 7 in A major" alongside Bartok’s dark one-act ...

The ENO try to make opera more accessible in various ways, one of which is by nearly always performing in English and ensuring surtitles are projected above the stage. Whilst this does theoretically ...

The Proms season concluded on September 14th with the celebratory Last Night of the Proms, rounding off a run of 86 concerts: 72 at the Royal Albert Hall and 14 at venues across the UK. The BBC ...

Entering the Royal Albert Hall for St. Vincent’s performance at the BBC Proms feels like any other classical performance. The orchestra is in their usual place, warming up as audience members take ...

How better to welcome the London Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor to this year’s Proms than with an opera-themed programme? Sir Antonio Pappano is a vibrant character in the world of classical ...

"Who doesn't check twice behind the shower curtain now?" asks presenter Edith Bowman, kicking off a spinetingling evening of thriller film soundtracks from the excellent BBC Concert Orchestra, under ...

Originally planned to be the second concert at this year's Proms reuniting Sir Simon Rattle with the London Symphony Orchestra, this morning's intriguing programme of Folk Songs and Dances is now ...

Coleridge-Taylor became keen on celebrating Black culture (as well as his own Sierra Leonean heritage), and one of the results of this was 1910’s The Bamboula. The title references a drum used in ...