There are celebrations to come later in the year at the Proms and at the Southbank Centre, but the Barbican has got in first with its five-concert tribute to Harrison Birtwistle to mark his 80th ...

Brad Balliett and Doug Balliett — identical twin composers and performers from Massachusetts — have been performing together and collaborating for nearly thirty years. As bassoonist and double bassist ...

Built into the side of a mountain, Salzburg's festival buildings – home to the most gilded event in the international summer calendar – forge art and nature in abrupt union. Backstage, orchestral ...

John Lloyd Davies, who designed and directed, used lighting effectively to shift mood and create the sense of different spaces. Two large projection screens featuring digitally altered photographs for ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. At Salzburg last summer Gawain finally won a life outside the UK, and next week a “concert staging” opens the ...

Eminent British modernist composer, a former musical director of the National Theatre, who won acclaim for his 1972 work The Triumph of Time and operas including The Minotaur, The Mask of Orpheus and ...

Sometimes audiences struggled to follow his dense arrangements - described by one group opposed to his modern style of music as "sonic sewage". In 1994, audiences at Covent Garden booed his opera ...

Brad Balliett and Doug Balliett — identical twin composers and performers from Massachusetts — have been performing together and collaborating for nearly thirty years. As bassoonist and double bassist ...

Opera on 3 tonight - introduced by Tom Service - presents a rare opportunity to hear a modern classic: Gawain, the epic opera by celebrated British composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle, who died last ...