A German website has been pondering the gender-identity question in Puccini’s ‘shabby little shocker’. Read on: It operates at the interface between kitsch and art, thus opening the door to camp aesthetics – a […]
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 […]
Richard Barnard, Richard Gowers, Roxanna Panufnik, Matilda Lloyd, Deborah Pritchard, Owain Park at St George’s Hanover Square for the launch of Fantasia (Photo: Dominik Zaczek) In July, I met up with trumpeter Matilda Lloyd for […]