The home of Italian opera has renewed its music director’s contract, but only until the end of next year. Riccardo Chailly, 72, has been in charge since 2017 but has suffered bouts of ill-health. The […]
Prokofiev: Suite from Semyon Kotko – Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra – Royal Festival Hall (Photo: Marc Gascoigne) Prokofiev, Mussorgsky/Denisov, Lyatoshynsky; Matthew Rose, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski; London Festival HallReviewed 2 April 2025 Ukrainian […]
On this, the 50th anniversary of the premiere of Chicago, Bob Fosse and Kander & Ebb’s great musical about corruption and celebrity, set in the bad old, good old, days of Chicago’s underworld, here’s a […]