Matthew Bourne’s dazzling ballet The Car Man returns to London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre this summer, for a strictly limited ...

Two-time Oscar winner, Sir Anthony Hopkins, is releasing his second ever album of classical music, at the age of 88.

Christopher Nolan’s ancient Greek epic will be his third collaboration with Ludwig Göransson. Here’s everything we know about ...

Washington National Opera is suing the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, claiming it’s owed $17m in gifts, ...

Composer Julian Nott tells Classic FM how he wrote one of British film and television’s most iconic theme tunes.

Symphony No.5 in C minor Opus 67 (1) Ludwig Van Beethoven Download 'Symphony No.5 in C minor Opus 67 (1)' on iTunes ...

Operatic tenor Andrea Bocelli is classical music's biggest-selling living artist with record sales of over 80 million units and is the world's most popular crossover artist. He has recorded complete ...

Every weekday from 4pm, Margherita Taylor provides the perfect soundtrack to your afternoon, keeping you company through to the evening with some brilliant classical music. Margherita offers all the ...

4. Saint-Saëns had a brilliant mind The composer’s formidable intellect was not limited to music. He had a profound interest in - and knowledge of - geology, botany, butterflies, and maths. He enjoyed ...

Why is it human nature to want what we can’t have? In 1827, the 23-year-old Hector Berlioz attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Odéon Theatre in Paris; Harriet Smithson, a charismatic ...

Half-Scottish, half-Italian violinist Nicola Benedetti was born in West Kilbride on 20 July 1987. Today she is one of the world’s finest and most in-demand young musicians, and director of the ...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. Haydn wrote 107 symphonies in total, as well as 83 string quartets, ...