Richard Strauss: Arabella – Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2023 (Photo: Thomas Aurin) Richard Strauss: Arabella; Jennifer Davis, Heidi Stober, Thomas Johannes Mayer, Hye-Young Moon, Doris Soffel, Deutsche Oper Berlin, conductor: Donald Runnicles, director: Tobias KratzerReviewed by […]
WNO Producer April Heade who helped develop Wellness with WNO The link between music, performance and health is one that performers (both amateur and professional) have largely understood implicitly, but bringing this concept to the […]
Image of Michael Zev Gordon’s Grandfather, Zalman & memorial to those killed in the forest in Poland Martinu: Double Concerto, Strauss: Metamorphosen, Michael Zev Gordon: A Kind of Haunting; James Newby, Louisa Clein, Allan Corduner, […]
For the second time in a fortnight the LPO welcomed a lean, long-limbed guest conductor on top form. Hannu Lintu, currently chief conductor at the Finnish National Opera, began with a more than usually substantial […]
Vaughan Williams’s The Poisoned Kiss (completed 1928, premiered 1936) mixes gothic fantasy (or fairy tale) with quirky (if sometimes simplistic) humour, arriving at an improbably happy resolution with no fewer than six couples paired off in marriage […]
Phyllida Lloyd’s 2006 production of Peter Grimes returns to Opera North in 2026 marking the 50th anniversary of Britten’s death (Photo: Bill Cooper) Opera North’s 2025/26 season opens at the Grand Theatre Leeds with something […]
The 31 Continuo Foundation round nine grantees The Continuo Foundation awarded its first round of grants in Spring 2021, and their lates round, the ninth, takes the total awarded up to an impressive £950,000. The […]
Britten: War Requiem – Stéphane Denève, Ian Bostridge, Roderick Williams, New World Symphony – Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami Britten: War Requiem; Christine Goerke, Ian Bostridge, Roderick Williams, New World Symphony, Stéphane Denève, Florida Singing Sons, […]
Music in the Museum – Agustin Pennino – London Transport Museum Music in the Museum: Handel, Mendelssohn, Michael Head, Rossini; Agustin Pennino; London Transport MuseumReviewed 21 March 2025 A young Uruguayan counter-tenor braves the hubbub caused […]
This was both an impressive concert in its own right and a more comfortable fit for the RPO’s ongoing ‘Lights in the Dark’ series than some of its scheduled instalments. All three featured composers, obliged […]
%20TallWall%20Media_Oxford%20Song.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "There was no closure here: four Irish women composers give voice to women of the Magdalene Laundries in remarkable performances from Lotte Betts-Dean & Deirdre Brenner in Oxford")
