Our resident reviewer experiences Claus Guth’s production of the Richard Strauss opera: The new Met Salome and Salomettes by Alastair Macaulay Since the great virtues of the new Metropolitan Opera production of Richard Strauss’s Salome” […]
This selfie somehow struck me as seminal. It shows the pianist Andre Gugnin in the front window of Universal Music with an LP of his excellent Shostakovich preludes recording on the boutique label Hyperion. Gugnin […]
Handel’s Arianna: An unforgettable close to the London Handel Festival’s ‘Spring Awakenings’ festival This is not the London Handel Festival’s first stab at Handel’s unjustly neglected opera, Arianna in Creta; it was previously staged […]