Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Marriage of Figaro review – revival sparkles with young cast

David McVicar’s detailed staging of Mozart’s comedy opens Covent Garden’s new season, with conductor Julia Jones bringing energy and drive and Ying Fang, making her house debut, as an exquisite Susanna

Tim Ashley

03, Sep, 2024 @10:41 AM

The week in classical: Giulio Cesare; Così fan tutte; Siegfried/Götterdämmerung – review

There is much fun and an excellent cast in David McVicar’s sparkling Handel revival; Mozart’s partner-swap opera soars with exuberant solos; and Wagner’s Ring marathon reaches a roaring climax

Fiona Maddocks

29, Jun, 2024 @12:00 PM

Rock on, Shostakovich, Handel, Ravel: lives of great composers hit the screens

Torment, rebellion and tragedy are major themes as a rash of new biopics highlight the achievements and challenges of the musically gifted

Dalya Alberge

02, Jun, 2024 @12:00 PM

Phoenix Dance Theatre review – triple bill swings from tortured to tender

Belonging: Loss. Legacy. Love brings together work by Phoenix’s new boss Marcus Jarrell Willis, Miguel Altunaga and Dane Hurst

Lyndsey Winship

22, Feb, 2024 @8:00 PM

When grapefruit mustn’t be your cup of tea | Brief letters

Brief letters: Medical effect of grapefruit | Brexit shoulder | Murderous Mozart | Emeritus professors | Rishi Sunak on the edge

18, Feb, 2024 @4:44 PM

Einstein on the Beach with goats? No, thanks | Letters

Letters: John Coldwell on his first ever walkout from a performance. Plus letters from Ian Garner, David Riley and Tim Edwards on leaving theatres at the interval or even earlier

03, Dec, 2023 @6:14 PM

Mozart in Italy by Jane Glover review – the making of a master

An account of the teenage Mozart’s operatic awakening is packed with humanising detail

Martin Kettle

29, Nov, 2023 @7:30 AM

Mozart: Piano Concertos K238 and 503 album review – Kristian Bezuidenhout

Freiburg Baroque Orch.
(Harmonia Mundi)

Andrew Clements

26, Oct, 2023 @3:00 PM

‘John McEnroe was my reference point’: how we made hit Mozart movie Amadeus

‘I was told my laugh wasn’t extreme enough. So I got through an entire bottle of Jack Daniel’s getting its idiot sound right’

Interviews by Chris Broughton

23, Oct, 2023 @1:58 PM

In brief: Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop; Birdgirl; Mozart in Italy – reviews

The tale of a divorcee embraces its sentimentality; a young birdwatcher proves a gifted memoirist; and Mozart’s Italian job sparkles with detail

Hannah Beckerman

08, Oct, 2023 @3:30 PM

After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre

Oliver Cotton’s The Score, a new drama about Bach’s confrontation with Frederick II, continues a rich tradition of plays about great composers

Michael Billington

20, Sep, 2023 @7:06 AM

Music may reduce babies’ pain during jabs or heel-prick tests, study suggests

Newborns suffered less pain during heel-prick blood tests if they heard a Mozart lullaby, researchers report

Linda Geddes Science correspondent

29, Aug, 2023 @12:00 AM

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