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Unmissable revival of a classic production stars Natalya Romaniw and Bryn Terfel, friends and singers on top form
English National Ballet’s brand new Nutcracker is fresh, surprising and full of magic, artistic director Aaron S Watkin tells Culture Whisper
The Welsh-born soprano returns to the title role of Tosca, but has a brand new work in her sights
A delightful new production of Donizetti's romantic comedy is set in wartime Britain
Carols and seasonal favourites, Handel's Messiah and operas to raise the spirits add up to a bumper package this year
A cornucopia of dance across London
The last Nutcracker of the season comes to the RAH courtesy of Birmingham Royal Ballet – and it's unmissable!
Carlos Acosta talks to Culture Whisper about his decision to transport the Christmas ballet to his native Cuba and turn it into Nutcracker in Havana
As she put the finishing touches to her new piece for The Royal Ballet, the American choreographer Pam Tanowitz talked to Culture Whisper about her way of making dance.
The Barbican presents The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998, a world first exhibition charting the extraordinarily fertile artistic output of those febrile two decades
Sir Frederick Ashton's magical Cinderella is the Royal Ballet's Christmas offering this year
English National Opera launches its new season with three productions, the Royal Opera stages Bernstein rarities, and the piano gets its own festival
As Akram Khan’s iconoclastic Giselle returns to Sadler’s Wells, English National Ballet’s lead principal dancer Erina Takahashi discusses ballet's tragic heroine
Christopher Marney, artistic director of London City Ballet, tells Culture Whisper his new company mirrors and updates an audacious earlier project
Tickets are now on sale for the autumn period of The Royal Ballet 2024/25 season – an blend old and new, with much loved repertoire pieces alongside new creations
From Mozart to Tchaikovsky to Bernstein, the ups and downs of couples in love find voice in a season of classics. Booking opens at 9AM on Wed 10 July
On the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, the team that turned The Metamorphosis into a harrowing piece of dance-theatre reunite in Oxford to adapt the equally disturbing The Hunger Artist
As she prepares to add the lead role of Hermione to her enviable portfolio, The Royal Ballet’s Sarah Lamb tells us about the ins and outs of The Winter's Tale
Lots of Puccini in the year that marks the centenary of his death, plus Verdi, Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, Britten and more
Country house opera, memorable concerts, and the entire BBC Proms make up a soundtrack for the sun
Exciting new productions of Tchaikovsky, Wagner and a new Mark-Anthony Turnage opera head the field. Booking opens 9AM, Wed 10 July
As Sadler's Wells prepares to host her seminal work May B, the French choreographer Maguy Marin talks to Culture Whisper
The mezzo-soprano on dying for a living, loading up on carbs and housework in the early hours
An exciting new production of Carmen, an evening with author Kate Atkinson, and musical fun for the family
The Royal Ballet Principal Character Artist, Gary Avis, tells Culture Whisper how he develops the compelling character roles crucial to bringing ballets to life
Music by Bach for Easter, comedy and tragedy at the opera, and Peter and the Wolf for all the family
Ballet Nights aims to forge a new connection between audience and dancers. To find out exactly how, Culture Whisper spoke to its founder and artistic director, Jamiel Devernay-Laurence
The prolific American choreographer Jessica Lang talks to Culture Whisper about her first commission for The Royal Ballet, Twinkle, a work that’s star-studded in more ways than one
Embarking on the juice cleanse was a decision influenced by both curiosity and a desire to alleviate the lingering effects of long Covid
From Mrs & Mrs Smith with Donald Glover and Maya Erskine to The New Look starring Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche, here are the best shows streaming in February
From Jonathan Glazer's holocaust drama The Zone of Interest to Andrew Haigh's poignant ghost movie All of Us Strangers starring Andrew Scott, here are the films in cinemas this weekend
The latest WWII drama exec-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, Masters of the Air follows the 100th Bomb Squad in 1943. Stars Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan and Ncuti Gatwa