From my monthly essay in The Critic: … there is just enough method in the Trumpian mayhem to suggest the possibility of positive outcomes. We have heard too much moralising from arts leaders. Arts centres […]
From our agony aunt: Dear Alma, I’m stuck between two cellists. One is a Zionist, the other pro-Palestinian. They no longer talk. I am the one expected to hold the section together, even though I am […]
Fotina Naumenko and the performers on Bespoke Songs Fotina Naumenko is an American soprano of Russian heritage. Her album Bespoke Songs on New Focus Recordings was nominated for a 2025 Grammy for Best Classical Solo […]
Mozart La finta giardiniera (concert performance, Bärenreiter edition, ed. Angemüller/Berke). Soloists; The Mozartists / Ian Page. Cadogan Hall, 25.03.2025 Sandrina Ava Dodd Don Anchise Michael Ball Count Belfiore Hugo Brady Arminda Camilla Harris […]
The Finns plan next season to premiere an opera of Karl Ove Knausgård’s autobiographical series of novels, Min Kamp, which runs to 3,500 pages and is presently stopping many household doors. The Norwegian is described […]
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The Minnesota Orchestra is not afraid of the unfamiliar. The Chilean-Italian conductor Paolo Bortolameolli outs on Venezuelan-Chilean composer Miguel Farías’ Retratos Australes, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3, and First Associate Concertmaster Susie Park performs Mexican-born Gabriela […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The most influential Irishman in the history of music is not Bob Geldof, Bono, Sinead O’Connor or the Dubliners, all of whom are famous as influenza, but a […]
With the 2025 London Handel Festival in full swing, it is presenting a new staged double bill, Tales of Apollo and Hercules. Directed by Tom Guthrie, with David Bates conducting La Nuova Musica, plus New English […]
Wagner: Die Walküre – Sarah Wegener, Maximilian Schmitt, Åsa Jäger – Dresdner Musikfestspiele (Photo: Oliver Killig) The prospect of varied events to treasure in Dresden as the Dresdner Musikfestspiele’s (Dresden Music Festival) historically informed Ring […]
