In Pretty Woman, Edward, played by Richard Geere, takes Vivian, played by Julia Roberts to see that very opera and we see Violetta sing ‘Sempre Libera’ and ‘Amami, Alfredo’.

Join us for special concerts and musical premieres to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day on Classic FM. On Thursday 8 May ...

From The Habanera to the Toreador Song, Carmen contains some of opera’s most well-known tunes and tells the story of the ...

Zak, a young pianist from Chapeltown, wowed judges in Sheffield on the latest episode of Channel 4’s The Piano.

The Classic FM Music Teacher of the Year Awards are back for 2025, with £20,000 of musical instruments and equipment up for ...

Photos from the spectacular Classic FM Live at the Movies with Viking, featuring star soloists alongside The Bach Choir and ...

From Einaudi to Richter, these famous contemporary composers all studied with the legendary avant garde composer.

In 1941, while imprisoned at Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish violin maker built an instrument that would go on to ...

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

The classical and acoustic guitars’ differences mean they lend themselves typically to different genres of music. Spanish and ...

As the world pays its respects to the late head of the Catholic church, we reflect on the music and musicians that will be ...

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 ...