%20Britten%20Pears%20Arts%20(1).jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "A trio of concerts at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival highlights the diversity of music to be found on the Suffolk coast.")
Edward Gardner & Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra – Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Britten Pears Arts) Daniel Kidane: Sirens, Mark-Anthony Turnage: Refugee, Nielsen: Symphony No.4; Allan Clayton, Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, cond. Edward […]
Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus – The Grange Festival (Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith) Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus; Sylvia Schwartz, Andrew Hamilton, Ben McAteer, Ellie Laugharne, Claudia Huckle, Trystan Llŷr Griffiths, Darren Jeffery, Myra DuBois, director: Paul […]
Verdi: La Traviata – Samantha Clarke – The Grange Festival (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) Verdi: La traviata; Samantha Clarke, Nico Darmanin, Dario Solari, Annie Reilly, director: Maxine Braham, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Richard Farnes; The […]
It’s been a while: well, over 40 years, since I heard Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe, in an amdram production just outside of Manchester in which I was playing French horn. Has absence made the […]
#MOZART250: Rachel Podger plays Mozart. Rachel Podger (violin); The Mozartists / Ian Page (conductor). Wigmore Hall, Londo, 18.06.2024 (CC) Haydn Symphony No. 66 in B flat (1775/6) Mozart Violin Concertos: No. 2 in D, K 211 […]
Baba Yaga workshop -Ana Dordevic, Rowan Hellier, Carola Schwab – (Photo: Pascal Buenning/Deutsche Oper) Rowan Hellier is a mezzo-soprano who, along with her operatic career, is known for creating projects which blur the boundaries of […]
%20in%20The%20Merry%20Widow.%20Credit%20Mihaela%20Bodlovic.%20(2).jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "The Merry Widow meets the Godfather: Scottish Opera brings John Savournin's new production of Lehár's operetta to Opera Holland Park")
Lehár: The Merry Widow – Alex Otterburn, Henry Waddington – Scottish Opera (Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic) Lehár: The Merry Widow; Paula Sides, Alex Otterburn, Rhian Lois, William Morgan, Henry Waddington, director: John Savournin, Scottish Opera, conductor: […]
Opera Rara’s Donizetti Song Project is the latest in their alchemical mix of musicology and performance. But why say with Volume Four first? Because recently we heard Bellini’s La straniella (see this post), and Donizetti […]
I feel sorry for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. They got themselves a new hot-stuff conductor in 2020, and now a recording arrangement with Pentatone (although that’s not as prestigious as it once was), and this […]
Sisters: music by Rossini, Viardot, Gluck/Berlioz, Berlioz, Bertin, Bellini, Grandval, Saint-Saens; Karine Deshayes, Delphine Haidan, Orchestre national Avignon-Provence, conductor Débora Waldman; NoMadMusicReviewed 13 June 2025 Part celebration, part luxuriant delight: Malibran and Viardot celebrated in […]
