This quiet midsummer’s evening saw the first performance of a work that would become one of the most consistently popular pieces of classical ... on the night of his opera Turandot's premiere ...
There is a considerable wealth of classical music and opera in Wales. The popular perception of a tradition of the harp and the male voice choir is a long way from the 21st century reality of a ...
Tchaikovsky may have loathed it, but his 1812 Overture has just been voted the UK's most popular piece of classical music. The composer famously said it was "very loud and noisy and completely ...