What were English National Opera chiefs thinking when they approved a run of Instagram posts that reduce the art form to puerile caricature? The posts are neither funny nor intelligent. Several singers are expressing rage. […]
The composer Michio Mamiya, winner of a grand prix at the 1974 Salzburg Festival with his opera Narukami, has died at the age of 95. He was most widely known for composing anime cartoon films. […]
The Norwich Nine – Bootworks Theatre Co. and a local group of nine-year-old children – Norfolk & Norwich Festival By far the largest arts festival in the East of England and the fourth largest in […]
%20(1).png?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "Mad, magical and mesmerising: Tom Coult's Pieces that Disappear, his debut disc from NMC Records")
Tom Coult: Three Pieces that Disappear, Beautiful Caged Thing, Pleasure Garden, After Lassus; Anna Dennis, Daniel Pioro, BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Gourlay and Elena Schwarz; NMC Records Music that is misremembered or did not […]
This is truly special. Rogier Michael, born in Mons, Belgium in around 1553 and died 1623, was a late example of the polyphonic Franco-Flemish school. His setting of the Weihnachtshisorie (Christmas story) dates from 1602 […]
With the proliferation of new Classical releases this year, I’ve found myself spending much more time listening than reviewing, eager to move on to the next batch of CDs that arrives in the mail. So […]
Macbeth- Ralph Fiennes Click here to subscribe Ralph Fiennes and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma star in a brand-new modern dress production of William Shakespeare’s shortest play. If you’re not familiar with Macbeth, it’s […]
264, That One Star is a new Korean opera created and produced by the Daegu Opera House. The voice in poetry of the Korean independence movement during the Japanese colonial period, his real name was […]
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German opera houses are sharing their shock at the unexpected death in Berlin of the highly regarded Rainer Casper. A career-long partner of the director Frank Castorf, he started out at the Volksbühne in Berlin […]
