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Robert Plant - Robert Plant Re-records Buckley Song With Tenor

4804 days ago
ContactMusicRock legend Robert Plant has found a new singing partner in British tenor Alfie Boe The odd couple has recorded a version of Tim Buckleys Song To A Siren and now the former Led Zeppelin frontman who recorded hit 2007 album Raising Sand with country s... more info

The Pogues star Shane MacGowan up for classic album award

4978 days ago
Guardian MusicSinger nominated for Classic Brit honour after recording track on hit album by The PriestsFormer Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan is in the running to land a Classic Brit award.The singer features on a hit album by The Priests, performing a version of ... more info

Last minute Mother's Day albums: a guide

4984 days ago
Pop JusticeThis morning we went to HMV to see what Mother's Day CDs might be on offer, but HMV was shut so we went to Sainsbury's instead. Here's what we found in the chart rack. JESSIE J - 'WHO YOU ARE' It's by a lady, so it's a great present for a lady. W... more info

The Mikado – review

5015 days ago
Guardian MusicColiseum, LondonJonathan Miller's 1930s English hotel version of Gilbert and Sullivan's Japanese opera celebrates its 25th anniversary with this latest revival. An iconoclastic visual approach to a 100-year-old classic when it was devised back in 198... more info

Matt Lucas and Alfie Boe singing is a YouTube hit

5075 days ago
The TelegraphFootage of Matt Lucas and his friend Alfie Boe, the Tony Award-winning tenor, singing Nessun Dorma in the Little Britain star's kitchen has become a YouTube hit. more info

Hidden gems of 2010: the classical CDs and DVDs you may have missed

5088 days ago
Guardian MusicObserver classical music critic Fiona Maddocks picks the releases that deserved far greater attention in the past yearClassical CDsElgar The Kingdom. Hallé Orchestra and Choir, soloists, Sir Mark Elder (conductor) (Hallé)This live recording of Elga... more info

Roméo et Juliette; BBC Symphony Orchestra at 80; Oxford Lieder festival | Classical review

5137 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Opera House, London; Barbican, London; Holywell Music Room, OxfordBy the final act of Roméo et Juliette, revived at the Royal Opera House for only the second time in 16 years, I felt quite apologetic towards Gounod. His particular Gallic blend... more info

Roméo et Juliette – review

5138 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Opera House, LondonThough it's a mere 16 years old, Nicolas Joël's staging of Gounod's opera looks far more ancient. Nothing in it would have seemed advanced, or even modern, 50 years ago. The medieval architecture of Carlo Tommasi's designs ... more info

In praise of … understudies | Editorial

5273 days ago
Guardian MusicTeam games and the performing arts could not survive without them and nor could aspiring young talentsIt is in the nature of being an understudy that yours is not a place in the spotlight. Yet team games and the performing arts could not survive with... more info

Should The Pearl Fishers have pulled the plug? | Vanessa Thorpe

5273 days ago
Guardian MusicWith both the lead tenor and his understudy off sick, was it wrong for the ENO production to carry on regardless?How disabled does a production have to be before the theatre brings the curtain down on it? John Berry, the artistic director of the Engl... more info

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