Magic, music and merriment are promised when a much-loved festival returns to Buxton Opera House for its 32nd edition.

A gala concert is to take place in memory of a former Headmistress of a Peterborough school.

HMS Pinafore premiered in 1878 at the Opera Comique in London, and became Gilbert and Sullivan’s first smash hit, enjoying a successful run of 571 performances. Satirising the snobbery and hypocrisy ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

When Cal McCrystal’s hilarious production of HMS Pinafore was first staged in 2021, English National Opera took a gamble by casting Les Dennis as the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter.

On first listen, “total euphoria” sounds like the product of eight people playing completely out of sync with one another. The drums enter and exit the mix of their own accord; the guitars speed up ...

I’ve sung Captain Corcoran a few times before, including in the 2021 premiere of this witty Cal McCrystal staging for ENO, and it’s a pleasure to be returning to this brilliant production, this time ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...

NORTHAMPTON — As I walked and whistled out of the Academy of Music on Nov. 9, Able Seaman Paul Peelle — still made up for the stage and dressed in stripes of white and Royal Navy blue — reminded me of ...

(Mass Appeal) - When you think of musicals that have stood the test of time--you may well think of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore with all its charming music and gorgeous costumes in seafaring ...