Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia – finale of Act One – Longborough Festival Opera, 2025 (Photo: Clive Barda) Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Joseph Doody, Lauren Young, Benjamin Bevan, Henry Neill, director: Louise Bakker, conductor […]
BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Gergely Madaras at Cheltenham Town Hall – Cheltenham Music Festival 2025 Britten: Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’; Arnold: Symphony No. 5, Anna Semple: Fanfare for Cheltenham; Elgar: Enigma […]
Beethoven, Brahms Cédric Tiberghian (piano); Chiaroscuro Quartet. Wigmore Hall, 10.07.2025 Beethoven Strnig Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Op. 130 (with Große Fuge, Op. 133) Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 Recently, we […]
Peter Whelan conducting Mozart’s Symphony No.41 “Jupiter”, image taken from video filmed at the Whyte Recital Hall at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, 9/9/2023. Produced by November Seven Films. Conductor Peter Whelan is bringing […]
Shani took up his post in Rotterdam in 2018 and his contract with the orchestra extends to 2026. As he has said: “The chemistry I felt with the orchestra from day one is still growing.” We have met them […]
2025 is the bicentenary of the birth of the singer, librettist and composer Hervé [Louis-Auguste Florimond Ronger (1825-1892)], a man responsible for a wide selection of opérette and opéra-bouffe that have rather dropped out of the […]
CBSO at New Street Station in August 2024 (Photo: Hannah Fathers) The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) returns this Summer with the second-edition of CBSO in the City, a week-long musical takeover running from […]
Looking at Nicola Alaimo’s repertoire and performances, his sheer number of Donizetti roles is only equalled by those of his Rossini performances; h is a major interpreter. The first song, Al campo della gloria, has […]
We have met the super Ciaroscuro Quartet on a number of occasions, most saliently in Haydn in the first three of the Op. 76 Quartets here and in the balancing three (Nos. 4-6) here; but […]
John Savournin The intriguing game of musical dominos in arts administration continues. Earlier this year it was announced the Guy Verrall-Withers, co-founder and artistic director of Waterperry Opera Festival, was becoming director of audiences & impact […]
