Three new Shakespeare productions opened this week. Nicholas Hytner’s Richard II livened up London’s Bridge. Tom Hiddleston shed his shirt in Much Ado About Nothing at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. And Rupert Goold directed a revised Hamlet with […]
John Savournin as Sante in Il segreto di Susanna at Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) July on Planet Hugill: Acis, Galatea, Susanna and two Figaros Our e-newsletter is now out, featuring a lively digest […]
Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914), a favourite student of Liszt, was admired by Wagner: that’s quite a CV. Here we have two works: the large-scale Piano Concerto in G minoring the Sinfonia festiva. Sgambati is probably best […]