Prom 51 (Susan Elkin reviews)
This production of Mozart’s last opera Die Zauberflote is characterised by fine orchestral work, much impeccable singing – and a great deal of directorial...
This production of Mozart’s last opera Die Zauberflote is characterised by fine orchestral work, much impeccable singing – and a great deal of directorial...
Well, it’s a very pretty piano: a fine example of high Victorian bling. It’s just a pity that Queen Victoria’s piano, on...
Unexpectedly, the high spot in this initially populist concert was the Lutoslawski concerto for orchestra (1954) with which it ended. Full of...
Opera Holland Park Education is a progressive realisation of our own ignorance, as Einstein said. The same applies to classical music and...
Garsington Opera at Wormsley The Happy Princess by Paul Fincham and Jessica Duchen, loosely based on an Oscar Wilde story, is a mini-masterpiece....
When I was a child in the early 1980s, for several years in a row we would chuck a load of camping...
Till death us do part. That’s what we vowed at St George’s Church, Forest Hill back in 1969 and we both kept...
My Loved One has now been in palliative care for what feels like a very long time indeed. I’m writing this as...