Britten: Our Hunting Fathers – Allan Clayton, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Britten Pears Arts) Daniel Kidane: Awake, Helen Grime: Violin Concerto, Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Vier letzel Lieder; Anu Komsi, Leila […]
Local hire Michael Gassmann is leaving the fest after four years, it has been announced in Bonn. His successor is to be Torger Nelson, who used to work at Washington National Opera and at the […]
From my monthly essay in The Critic (new issue out today) … Nothing in opera surpasses that single scenic blow to the seat of emotions. The effect is so visceral that I have seen cellists […]