Martin Green at the National Mining Museum Scotland, in Newtongrange (Photo: Sandy Butler) Marking 40 years since the miners’ strikes and featuring a sharp, hilarious script and live brass score by Ivor Novello winner Martin […]
The Royal College of Music gets in early with marking Ravel’s 150th-anniversary next year with this presentation of L’heure espagnole, although it completes a wider arc in that it presented his other, later one-Act opera in […]
The Music of Giuseppe Verdi – Victor StarskySarasota Opera (Photo: Sarasota Opera) Verdi: excerpts from La forza del destino, Aida, Un ballo in maschera, Attila, La Traviata, Don Carlo, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Rigoletto; […]
Listening to this disc is pure pleasure. Adrian Sutton is a wonderful composer, and prolific at writing melody. Along with lavish orchestrations, this music positively invites one to sick back, relax and indulge in the […]
Through the noise launch music education initiative with Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason as part of homecoming tour Highlights include: Landmark tour from 26 November – 3 December, visiting 7 cities across the UK and reaching up […]
Alexandra Dariescu (Photo: Nick Rutter) Back in 2018, I met up with pianist Alexandra Dariescu [see my interview] to chat about The Nutcracker and I, her innovative stage performance blending live piano music and dance […]
Donizetti L’elisir d’amore (sung in English, transl. Amanda Holden). Soloists; chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Teresa Riveira Böhm. London Coliseum, 20.11.2024 Production: Stage director – Harry Fehr Set designer – Nicky Shaw […]
Violinist Midori Komachi at Imogen Holst’s house (Photo: Britten Pears Arts)The bungalow designed and built specifically for the composer by modernist architect HT ‘Jim’ Cadbury-Brown in a corner of his garden, reflecting the architect’s own […]
Manchester Opera House – Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) Regional arts provision is a curious thing, with different countries opting for radically different models. In Germany, most decent sized cities have a theatre that produces a […]
Wolf-Ferrari’s short opera is perfect for a one-night coupling, as Opera Holland Park have proved both this year, with Pagliacci (review), and, in 2019, with Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (review). Susanna’s secret? As you can see from […]
