That a performance of the work begins every 10 minutes somewhere in the world. How much these anecdotes have been warped and augmented through history, as many are, it’s difficult to say. But it’s ...

Set in Spain and sung in French, George Bizet’s Carmen has some of the most famous melodies and characters in any opera. The opera opens outside a cigarette factory in Seville, where soldiers have ...

Broadcaster and comedian Sue Perkins returns to Classic FM for a thrilling new travel series, reaching the Galápagos Islands by the series end. Sue Perkins is returning to Classic FM for a brand new ...

Canada’s national anthem has both French and English versions, to honour the country’s bilingual past and present. Here are the history and lyrics to ‘O Canada’. On their visits to Canada in the early ...

A teenager from Chapeltown, Leeds stunned passersby with his performance of a classical medley in Sheffield train station in the latest series of The Piano. “When I play the piano, I get a lot more ...

A violin from a Nazi concentration camp nearly went unnoticed for over eight decades, then a secret note changed everything. In 1941, while imprisoned at Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish ...