%20in%20The%20Merry%20Widow.%20Credit%20Mihaela%20Bodlovic.%20(2).jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "The Merry Widow meets the Godfather: Scottish Opera brings John Savournin's new production of Lehár's operetta to Opera Holland Park")
Lehár: The Merry Widow – Alex Otterburn, Henry Waddington – Scottish Opera (Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic) Lehár: The Merry Widow; Paula Sides, Alex Otterburn, Rhian Lois, William Morgan, Henry Waddington, director: John Savournin, Scottish Opera, conductor: […]
Opera Rara’s Donizetti Song Project is the latest in their alchemical mix of musicology and performance. But why say with Volume Four first? Because recently we heard Bellini’s La straniella (see this post), and Donizetti […]
I feel sorry for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. They got themselves a new hot-stuff conductor in 2020, and now a recording arrangement with Pentatone (although that’s not as prestigious as it once was), and this […]
Sisters: music by Rossini, Viardot, Gluck/Berlioz, Berlioz, Bertin, Bellini, Grandval, Saint-Saens; Karine Deshayes, Delphine Haidan, Orchestre national Avignon-Provence, conductor Débora Waldman; NoMadMusicReviewed 13 June 2025 Part celebration, part luxuriant delight: Malibran and Viardot celebrated in […]
Britten, Shostakovich Augustin Hadelich (violin); Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra / Michael Sanderling (conductor). Kulturpalast, Dresden, 13.06.2025 Britten Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 15 (1939) Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 (1943) Great […]
The Continuo Foundation is joining forces with Oxford Festival of the Arts to present an Early Music Day on Saturday 12 July 2025 at Magdalen College. The day will consist of two afternoon concerts by Continuo […]
The final program in this Met Orchestra season opened with Antrópolis by Gabriel Ortiz, the current holder of the Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall. A ten-minute work inspired by the legendary dance halls and nightclubs […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Opera in the heart of Clapham: St Paul's Opera's Summer Opera Festival")
Rehearsal images from St Paul’s Opera’s forthcoming production of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore My local opera company, St Paul’s Opera is presenting its annual Summer operatic staging at St Paul’s Church, Clapham next month (3 to […]
Watercolour of Nonsuch Palace where Tallis’ Spem in alium may have premiered The Earth Moves: Brumel: Missa Et ecce terrae motus, Gombert: Lugebat David Absalon, Josquin: Absalon fili mi, Tallis: Spem in alium; The Tallis […]
Heinrich Heine. Paris. Musik Benjamin Appl (baritone); James Baillieu (piano); Barbara Auer (narrator); Jens Harzer (narrator); Helmut Butzmann (concept). Palais im Großen Garten, Dresden, Germany, 12.06.2025 Palais im Großen Garten Lieder with readings might […]
.png?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "A destroyed and partially rebuilt city - Sven Helbig’s 'Requiem A' receives its UK Premiere at Central Hall Westminster")
