Edgy modern music that is massively good fun
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: … It’s 1920 where the fun begins. Behind Haba’s cerebral exterior lurks mischief. The fourth of six pieces for piano is a setting of the nursery rhyme ‘1-2-3-4-5, […]
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Dear Alma, They are squeezing the life out of my opera company
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I have been conducting a wonderful medium-sized opera company in a solid, comfortable city for over twenty years. As you are most likely aware, opera has been suffering lately, […]
Ruth Leon’s Pocket Theatre Review – Noughts and Crosses
This is an adaptation of a wildly successful young adult novel by British writer Malorie Blackman. It has been adapted for the stage by Dominic Cooke. Set in a segregated violent post-21st-century England, it is a love story […]
Cancer claims a wonderful Carmen, 61
We have learned of the death of the French mezzo-soprano Béatrice Uria-Monzon, one of the great Carmens of her day. She owned the role in Paris throughout the 1990s and recorded it with Alain Lombard. […]
West Green Opera – Verdi’s Macbeth – with Jean-Kristof Bouton, Mari Wyn Williams & Simon Wilding; directed by Richard Studer; conducted by Jonathan Lyness
For all that Shakespeare’s Macbeth combines something of history and tragedy, it’s probably the play’s elements of fantasy and supernaturalism that stand out most in many people’s minds, and which clearly inspired Verdi and Piave […]
Tanglewood Music Festival 2025 – Andris Nelsons conducts Puccini’s Tosca
In this superb concert presentation, the cast moved about in front of the orchestra, successfully telling the story with wonderful singing (from memory) and acting. The three principals at the center of the plot brought […]
Britten Pears Arts announces its 2026/26 Season
Highlights include: Britten Weekend marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Auschwitz Aurora Orchestra performs Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony from memory and is joined by Chloë Hanslip for Prokofiev’s […]
Weekend watch: The Real Billy Budd
Madrid embraces the wayward sailor. The post Weekend watch: The Real Billy Budd appeared first on Slippedisc.
A family affair: beginning as a memorial to his father, Andrew Arceci’s Winchendon Music Festival has grown into a community enterprise
The Murdock-Whitney House, Winchendon History & Cultural Centre Andrew Arceci is an American viola da gamba, violone, and bass player who studied at the Peabody Conservatory, The Juilliard School, and at Oxford. His UK performances […]
John Rutter Fancies Singapore
Totally unexpected. In 1971, John Rutter published Fancies, a set of six short pieces for choir and chamber orchestra, on texts taken from Elizabethan poets. Rutter explained, “The ‘fancies’ are the fleeting ideas, dreams and […]
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