Clay Hilley was a blistering Tristan and Sara Jakubiak – in her role debut – a persuasive Isolde with Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra detailed and minutely balanced The London Symphony ...

These lovers were resplendent in different ways. Sara Jakubiak, singing her first Isolde, looked the part: red hair against green dress for the Irish Queen, pale, almost mask-like face white with ...

There are performances of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony that impress through sheer scale. There are others that astonish through architectural clarity. And then there are the rare evenings that somehow ...

Semyon Bychkov is a very good conductor. The New York Philharmonic is a very good orchestra. Last night’s was not a good concert. On the program was a single work—one of the greatest works of music, ...

Antonio Pappano’s dramatically charged interpretation of this religious oratorio landed powerfully with a hair-raising performance from David Butt Philip as the titular soul Elgar’s greatest oratorio ...

Between Hollywood and Leningrad, however, Pappano and his high-achieving band struck up a truly engrossing dialogue. Questions of kitsch and sentiment, of freedom and compulsion, of authenticity and ...

Vilde Frang revealed the expressionistic bones of Korngold’s Violin Concerto in her performance of this 1945 work, part of a concert that included Imogen Holst’s Persephone and a drama-filled reading ...

David Bruckner (The Night House) is set to write and direct The Caretaker, Universal’s adaptation of the novel by Marcus Kliewer that has Sydney Sweeney aboard to star, Deadline has confirmed. Reps ...

Holly Pappano was the Communications and Engagement Manager at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis (CCA) from March to June 2026. Before joining CCA, she spent several years ...

A rare appearance in the UK by Sir Donald Runnicles, a longtime fixture of the German classical music scene, had prompted excitement among audiences in London. The proposition of hearing him conduct ...

An all British programme featured music by Thea Musgrave, Vaughan Williams and William Walton, with Antoine Tamestit an expressive and sensitive soloist in the latter’s Viola concerto Antonio ...