Beethoven abused at Paris Olympic preview
For lack of taste and talent you would be hard pressed to find an act duller and more banal than this official state presentation by veteran pop persona Arielle Dombasle. What were they thinking? The […]
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The Music of Milica Djordjević
Bavarian Radio’s series Musica Viva always seems to exude a sense of discovery, of freshness, of hope that contemporary music that matters is alive and well: we can look back, for example, to the music […]
Sudden death of French gadfly
The erudite critic and provocateur Benoît Duteurtre, presenter of Astonish Me, Benoit on France Musique died at his rural holiday home of a heart attack this week, aged 64. An early groupie of Boulez, Stockhausen […]
Ruth Leon’s Pocket Theatre Reviews
NEXT TO NORMAL – Wyndham’s Theatre When this landmark musical debuted on Broadway in 2010, it won three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama – one of only ten musicals in history to receive this prestigious honour. It […]
Mourning for Scots baritone
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has announced the death of baritone Alan Watt, a valued member of the teaching staff from 1995 to 2019. Born in Aberdeen, Watt sang leading roles with British companies performed […]
Returning to Northern Ireland Opera for his third role, British-Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk talks about his continuing exploration of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Yuriy Yurchuk Baritone Yuriy Yurchuk sings the title role in Northern Ireland Opera‘s new production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin which opens on 14 September 2024 at the Grand Opera House, Belfast, directed by Cameron Menzies […]
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Relentlessly entertaining: Louise Bakker’s new production of Handel’s Acis and Galatea at Opera Holland Park rather over-eggs things but features finely engaging soloists
Handel: Acis and Galatea – chorus – Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Handel: Acis and Galatea; Elizabeth Karani, Anthony Gregory, Chuma Sijeqa, Ruari Bowen, director: Louise Bakker, City of London Sinfonia, conductor: Michael Papadopoulos; […]
A pair of secrets: Wolf-Ferrari and Leoncavallo at Opera Holland Park
Wolf-Ferrari and Leoncavallo: Soloists; Children from Pimlico Musical Foundation; Chorus of Opera Holland Park; City of London Sinfonia / John Andrews (conductor, Wolf-Ferrari), Francesco Ciliuffo (conductor, Leoncavallo) Wolf-Ferrari – Il segreto di Susanna Production: Director – […]
Ruth Leon recommends…Bobby Short Live at Cafe Carlyle
Bobby Short Live at Cafe Carlyle Bobby Short ‘invented’, perhaps ‘defined’ would be a better word, intimate cabaret for the New Yorkers of our own recent times. Urbane, elegant, perfectly groomed, he played the songs […]
Look, there’s an academic at my piano
The international opera star Aida Garifullina gave a concert in the Oxford Union. Normally, she’d bring her own pianist. Here, she was accompanied by Christian Wilson, Director of Music at Keble College. The post Look, […]
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