Classical Music

Time Out catches up with Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel ahead of his performance in 'The Flying Dutchman' at the Royal Opera House

Time Out's critics forsake the stalls to check out the cheap seats at the capital’s top arts venues

Time Out looks forward to the classical music and opera highlights of 2009, including Joanthan Miller's 'La bohème', and the Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra with conductor Gustavo Dudamel

Start the new year on a highbrow note at one of these cracking concerts and operas

Time Out meets the people who are good at turning hobbies into jobs and junk into music

Time Out's critics pick the best books to be giving as Christmas presents: art books, film books, classical music books and top reads in comedy, dance, music and theatre

Monkey, hero of Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s opera ‘Monkey: Journey to the West’, isn’t just immortal: he’s pretty old too. Time Out traces the story of the demon-clobbering primate back to its origins in mystic Ming-dynasty legend

Time Out meets Ian Bostridge, a south London-born former university academic who, despite no formal singing training, turned his hobby into a successful career as a tenor