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Nothing less than astonishing: Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 from Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
In April this year, Graham Ross directed the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge in a performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 at Smith Square Hall (formerly St John’s Smith Square). The performance featured the English […]
Bayreuth opens for 2026
Remember when they didn’t start selling tickets until May? And everything sold out within hours. The Bayreuth Festival has just put its 150th anniversary festival on show, and partly on sale. Christian Thielemann will open […]
Beset by criticisms of Wagnerisme, Édouard Lalo cried off opera after Le Roi d’Ys but the work itself held the stage and is finally returning to London
Poster for the première performance of Édouard Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys. During the 19th century, many French composers became fascinated by Wagner and his operas. Not every composer managed as balanced an attitude as Gabriel Fauré […]
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