The Marriage of Figaro (Susan Elkin reviews)
Merry Opera Company Wetherspoons Opera House, Tunbridge Wells and touring Billed as “opera meets jazz” this 1960s Figaro is rescored by Harry...
Merry Opera Company Wetherspoons Opera House, Tunbridge Wells and touring Billed as “opera meets jazz” this 1960s Figaro is rescored by Harry...
Last week we – My Loved One, Ms Alzheimer’s and me – went to Chickenshed (“theatre changing lives”) in North London to...
Marcio da Silva is a warmly arresting baritone and, for a first stab at Winterreise this was a commendable performance. Twenty four songs in...
There was a lot of lilting 3/4 time and enough tunes to set you humming all week in this enjoyable concert. First...
“Now sits expectation in the air” as Shakespeare put it. Never in twenty years as a regular have I seen Mote Hall,...
The government – which, just occasionally, does something useful – has announced a proposal to change the eligibility criteria for the Blue...
This conventionally structured concert – a concerto sandwiched by two symphonies – presented the BPO pared down to classical chamber size, which...
My paternal great grandmother lived until I was 16. Throughout my childhood I watched my grandparents carefully and lovingly looking after his...