Joseph Phibbs & Dominic Sandbrook: Mrs T – Lucy Schaufer as Mrs T in rehearsal(Photo: Claire Shovelton) Whether you love her or hate her, Mrs Thatcher remains an iconic figure but not a character who […]
Ryan Wigglesworth (Photo: BBC/Gordon Burniston) At this year’s Aldeburgh Festival, which runs from 12 to 18 June 2026, the festival’s Featured Artist will be Ryan Wigglesworth and over the 17 days of the festival there […]
Carl Nielsen’s music to The Mother: A Play in a Prologue and Seven Scenes by Helge Rode was recorded in full for the first time here. Some excerpts have found their way in into record […]
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Louise Alder, Alex Esposito – Royal Opera House (Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic) Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; Alex Esposito, Louise Alder, Andrey Zilikhovsky, Masabane Cecilia […]
Tobias Picker: Lili Elbe – Lucia Lucas – Theater St. Gallen 2023 Ever since John Adams and Alice Goodman focused on Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, contemporary opera (and contemporary American opera in particular) […]
There are kazilliions of Goldbergs out there. Here’s one with a difference: an arrangement by Tomáš Ille (born 1971) for French horn (Radek Baborák), violin (Dalibor Karvay), marimba (Andrei Pushkarev) and bass clarinet (Petr Velášek). […]
Macbeth, Op. 23 (1886-8) Richard Strauss’ first tone-poem, is not heard much. Norman del Mar devoted much space to it in his fine Strauss books, though, and that piqued my interest many, many years ago […]
Lullaby (noun) – A song sung to children to soothe them to rest. Also, any song which soothes to rest. (Oxford English Dictionary online) Inevitably the idea of a lullaby is immediately associated with children but […]
Happy “birth”- day to Wigmore Hall (inasmuch as bricks and mortar are birthed). On the hall’s actual 125th anniversary, it was Lise Davidsen and the equally astonishing collaborative pianist James Baillieu who did the honours: […]
Teodor Doré: Flow Interrupted It’s not often that I write about the London Festival of Architecture, but on 5 June 2026 Renaissance-21 is presenting Flow Interrupted, a prepared piano performance by Teodor Doré at Roca […]
