Prom 60 (Susan Elkin reviews)
Royal Albert Hall, 3 September 2019 Bernard Haitink’s final London concert was characterised by warmth, dignity and charisma. Many years ago I...
Royal Albert Hall, 3 September 2019 Bernard Haitink’s final London concert was characterised by warmth, dignity and charisma. Many years ago I...
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...