At the Teatro Argentina, the Philharmonic Soloists open their chamber music season with Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, in the version for fifteen musicians conducted by Sieva Borzak. A programme that draws on the tradition of the Second Viennese School and kicks off a season featuring both renowned performers and young talents  

At the 70th edition of the Biennale Musica, singing appears to be one of the central themes. Entitled "A Child of Soul" this year, it highlights the need to rediscover the simplicity, immediacy and complete lack of filters that a baby might display when uttering its first cries  

A magnificent Wotan; Harding did well on the podium. Beautiful music, but it takes almost an entire act to forge a sword or share a kiss.

The Taliban’s crackdown on all forms of freedom and the need to travel through the Balkans to reach a concert in Italy. Director Nicola Sorcinelli says: “Rhetoric was my greatest fear.”

The Teatro della Cometa reopened just over a year ago, and the new programme retains more than one link to its past. The music, curated by Massimo Spada, brings together the traditional repertoire and contemporary compositions, just as the Spring Concerts used to do

The Mahler Academy Orchestra’s philological performance. Music never heard before, a score rediscovered in its original sound