Can one person make a difference? Horrified by the climate crisis, teenager Lola decides that she must fight for the future. Composer Jonathan Dove and writer April De Angelis’ new opera looks at the state […]
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The Cast of ENO’s The Pirates of Penzance 2024 © Craig Fuller In case you missed it online, our December newsletter has arrived, a handy digest of the month’s reviews. December was a month when […]
It is great to see attention falling on Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-77). She was a pupil of Egon Wellesz and Ralph Vaughan Williams. The ever-enterprising Lyrita label released a fabulous compact disc of […]
Mozart’s Idomeneo is regarded as his first mature opera, written for Munich in 1781. The subject may not have been Mozart’s choice but it represents the composers continuing engagement with Italian opera seria, a style that […]
Robert and Clara Schumann Schumann: Eichendorff Liederkreis, Clara Schumann: Gedichte aus Rückerts Liebesfrühling, Brahms: Four Serious Songs; James Atkinson, Iain Burnside; Wigmore HallReviewed 6 January 2025 Young baritone James Atkinson used his rich, dark hued […]
Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde – Anthony Flaum, Meriel Cunningham – New Sussex Opera in 2021 (Photo Colin Chapman) Under Léon Carvalho, the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris had something of a miracle period in the 1860s. In […]
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Rosemary Carlton-Willis, Marcio da Silva, Joshua Furtado-Mendes – Ensemble OrQesta at Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn Festival, 2024 Ensemble OrQuesta, artistic director Marcio da Silva, whom we last heard at the […]
Violinist Roman Mints is the artistic director of WE ARE! Concert in Support of Ukraine, a night of music and solidarity to support Ukraine on Sunday 26 January 2025 at St John’s Church, Waterloo. The […]
On long walks during the live performance hiatus brought about by the Covid pandemic, Renée Fleming conceived what became her album, ‘Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene,’ juxtaposing vocal classics featuring imagery of nature with works […]
This is a tremendous coupling. We have been looking at quite a lot of Respighi of late (orchestral works from Wuppertal; orchestral transcriptions of Bach and Rachmaninnov from Liège; his operas Maria Egiziaca and La […]
