Verdi's Macbeth: a complete guide

• Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Richard Wigmore reveals Verdi's creative process, Gianandrea Noseda provides unique insights, plus we give a guide to the greatest recordings

Verdi's La traviata: a complete guide

• Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Mike Ashman looks into the opera's genesis, Renée Fleming reflects on the role of Violetta, plus a guide to the key recordings

Verdi's Falstaff: a complete guide

• Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Jeremy Nicholas reveals Verdi's creative process, Bryn Terfel discusses the challenges of Falstaff, plus a guide to key recordings

Why should we teach music in schools?

• Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Gallery: unseen pictures of Maria Callas

• Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Watch: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn receives violin lesson from 10-year-old

• Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Jeremy Corbyn received a short violin lesson from 10-year-old Jessica Kelly before playing in the orchestra

Watch: Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring...played on three melodicas

• Tuesday, September 27, 2016

The Melodica Men perform the opening section of Stravinsky's ballet

‘Working with contemporary composers is the main purpose of any company’

• Tuesday, September 27, 2016

One year into his Music Directorship of the Royal Ballet, Koen Kessels is determined to forge relationships with new composers, writes Sarah Kirkup

Watch a free live stream of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro

• Tuesday, September 27, 2016

The live stream from Dutch National Opera is conducted by Ivor Bolton

Playlist: Four Last Songs – when music mirrors life

• Monday, September 26, 2016

Hugo Shirley takes Strauss's Four Last Songs as his starting point for a musical journey

Playlist: Four Last Songs – hailing the soprano voice

• Monday, September 26, 2016

James Jolly uses Strauss's Four Last Songs as a point of departure for exploring the soprano voice

Playlist: The Baroque flute

• Monday, September 26, 2016

Nathaniel Gore explores the varying tone of the flute as the instrument evolved

Playlist: Suicide in opera

• Monday, September 26, 2016

Soprano Anna Prohaska highlights 10 arias sung by characters in extremis

Playlist: Let’s get minimal!

• Monday, September 26, 2016

Jed Distler traces the path of minimalism, from Purcell to Reich

Playlist: British church music

• Monday, September 26, 2016

David Threasher and Geraint Lewis explore some of the finest Anglican music of the 20th century