The BBC has pulled an advert for a pacifist organisation that was due to appear in the programme for the Prom’s performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem”. The choral work, which is a meditation ...

“What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?” More often than not, when Shakespeare is adapted into different formats, the text is largely lost but the story remains - not so in this case. Benjamin ...

That was no fault of Douglas Boyd’s pacing in a work which can take time to get going, with country miles of exposition, compressing crucial facts from Shakespeare's Acts One and Two, nor of his ...

Get exclusive access to priority onsales and special offers, plus never miss out on the biggest stories from the West End, Off-West End and beyond. Part of the BBC Proms.Garsington Opera makes its ...