Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BBC has pulled an advert for a pacifist organisation that was due to appear in the programme for the Prom’s performance of ...

That line sticks in the throat. Owen knew it, Britten knew it, we all know it, but even as we sat in stunned silence at the close of Andris Nelsons’ Prom performance the pity was so little had changed ...

The BBC Proms 2026 run from Friday 17 July to Saturday 12 September at London’s Royal Albert Hall and venues across the UK with more than 70,000 tickets at £8 With 86 Proms across eight weeks, I’m ...

Expect 86 concerts over eight weeks with every note broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds, and 24 Proms programmes on BBC TV and iPlayer ...

“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 ...

Festivals across the world have taken the opportunity of her 80th birthday to celebrate the music of Sofia Gubaidulina. Taught by Shostakovich, who encouraged the young composer’s iconoclastic ...

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 ...