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Rossini: La cenerentola – Barefoot Opera, 2023 (Photo: Chris Parker) Tenor Anthony Flaum has just been announced as the new artistic director of Barefoot Opera, a charity based in St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex […]

Katarzyna Kowalik Whilst the harpsichord has been used in contemporary music since the early 20th century, it still gives off the aura of a ‘period instrument’. Harpsichordist Katarzyna Kowalik wants to change that. Her new […]

For 2025, the Buxton International Festival is returning to its roots and looking to the future.  The company will be mounting a new production of Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet, which was one of the festival’s earliest […]

It is all change at the London Handel Festival. As announced previously by festival director Gregory Batsleer, the festival has a new artistic advisor, Jonathan Cohen, whilst Cohen’s group Arcangelo becomes the principal ensemble in […]

Handel: Messiah – Wild Arts at The Art Workers’ Guild 2023 (Photo: Lucy J Toms) In 2023, the innovative young ensemble Wild Arts brought their powerful new take on Handel’s masterpiece to four venues in […]

Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann – Juan Diego Florez – Royal Opera House (Photo: RBO/Camilla Greenwell) Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann; Juan Diego Florez, Alex Esposito, Olga Pudova, Ermonela Jaho, Marina Costa-Jackson, director: Damiano Michieletto, […]

Thomas Hudson – John Beard, tenor who created the role of Jephtha for Handel Handel: Jephtha: Benjamin Hulett, Helen Charlston, Rowan Pierce, James Hall, Academy Choir Wimbledon, Academy Baroque Players, Matthew Best; Wimbledon International Music […]

Reynaldo Hahn in 1906 Songs by Reynaldo Hahn; Maria Schellenberg, Jack Holton, Nigel Foster; London Song Festival at Hinde Street Methodist ChurchReviewed 8 November 2024 Over 20 of Hahn’s best known songs in a comprehensive […]

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Anna Tsybuleva with hr-Sinfonieorchester, Alain Altinoglu I first chatted to pianist Anna Tsybuleva back in 2021 (by Zoom from her house in the Caucasus) when having won the Leeds […]

Peter Wiegold and notes inégales in 2016 (Photo: Frederique Bellec) Club Inégales is back! Peter Wiegold’s genre-defying evening is returning to its Euston home for four evenings from 14 November. The events take place thanks […]