Ben Goldscheider Horn player Ben Goldscheider has talked in interviews about his desire to expand the instrument’s repertoire, and he has certainly been busy doing just that. So far this year he has premiered Gavin […]
Alice d’Lumiere’s Trans Lady Sings Gender can seem remarkably fluid, at times, in opera despite the apparent restrictions of vocal physiology. To a long tradition of female mezzo-sopranos in trousers and tenors in frocks, we […]
Esther, mosaic from The Dormition Church on Mount Zion in Jerusalem Handel: Esther (Canons version); Solomon’s Knot; Wigmore HallReviewed: 27 May 2024 Solomon’s Knot on vibrant and vivid form in a dramatic account of the earliest […]
ROH Youth Opera in Jonathan Ainscough & Jonathan Briggin’s The Sapling in July 2023 When I chatted to conductor Nicholas Chalmers in 2019 [see my interview], one of the topics that popped up was his […]
Vivaldi: L’Olimpiade – Sarah Richmond, Alexandra Urquiola, Gemma Ni Bhriain, Chuma Sijeqa, Meili Li, Rachel Redmond, Sean Boylan – Irish National Opera (Photo: Ros Kavanagh) Vivaldi: L’Olimpiade: Gemma Ni Bhriain, Alexandra Urquiola, Meili Li, Sarah […]
Stuart Hancock: Pandora’s Box – London Youth Opera at Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, 2023 (Photo: Nina Swann) Last December, London Youth Opera (LYO) presented Stuart Hancock and Donald Sturrock’s Pandora’s Box at the […]
Joseph Middleton and Fatma Said – Milton Court concert hall, Barbican (Photo: Mark Allan / Barbican) Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, de Falla: Siete canciones populares, Obradors, Najib Hankash; Fatma Said, Joseph Middleton; Milton Court concert hall, […]
The Salomon Orchestra in rehearsal at Henry Wood Hall When the Salomon Orchestra celebrated its 40th birthday in 2003 it assembled the huge orchestra needed for Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony, directed by founding conductor Nicholas […]
Harmonies of WoMen is an album that was released on International Women’s Day 2024, featuring work from ten different female pianists, and released under the banner of the Piano And Nature label, which […]
St Giles Cripplegate This year’s Summer Music in City Churches focuses on Shakespeare and under the title Love’s Labours runs at a single City church, St Giles Cripplegate from 6 to 15 June 2024. Pierre […]
