Besame mucho – the historically informed performance

Peter Grimes opened last night at Welsh National Opera in Cardiff. Nicky Spence was Grimes, Sally Matthews sang Ellen Orford, Sarah Connolly was Auntie and Catherine Wyn-Rogers was Mrs Sedley. The chorus, we are told, […]

We have been informed by people who have spoken to her daughter that the wonderful English soprano April Cantelo has died in Oxfordshire at the age of 96. A pupil of Britten’s associate Joan Cross, […]

Our critic has seen Ashton in Florida, Balanchine in London: by Alasrair Macaulay Some fluke of birth and talent arranged it so that the composers Handel and Bach were born in the same year, 1685, […]