Calming the Tempest (Susan Elkin reviews)
Calming the Tempest – Opera Up Close Posted on April 12, 2021 One of a series of online coffee concerts from Opera Up...
Calming the Tempest – Opera Up Close Posted on April 12, 2021 One of a series of online coffee concerts from Opera Up...
Oxford Lieder Winterreise Posted on March 2, 2021 All the way from the resonant arpeggios of Gute Nacht to the haunting, wistful A...
Handel: Messiah Posted on December 6, 2020 Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea, Saturday 05 December HPO Singers, Ensemble OrQuesta Baroque Helen May soprano Isabelle...
The Making of Handel’s Messiah: Andrew Gant Posted on June 11, 2020 The English oratorio was, it seems, born almost by accident. Handel’s Esther,...
Philharmonia Orchestra Posted on March 9, 2020 Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Sunday 8 March 2020 Young British conductor, Alpesh Chauhan, was new to me...
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, Sunday 16 February 2020 This concert was entitled Sunshine and Melody – a contrived, very generic and completely unnecessary label of...
Set in late-Franco, 1970s Spain this Carmen (revival of a 2012 production) simmers with timeless hot passion and a culture of bullying. All those...
Mote Hall, Maidstone, 1 February 2020 There are few more atmospheric pieces than Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes. It only needs a bar or...