Prom 15 (Susan Elkin reviews)
When you’re old enough to remember seeing Sir Adrian Boult and Otto Klemperer live it’s really quite exciting to see a conductor...
When you’re old enough to remember seeing Sir Adrian Boult and Otto Klemperer live it’s really quite exciting to see a conductor...
As soon as the 2018 Proms Youth Choir sang the first vibrant note of Eriks Esenvalds’s unaccompanied setting of Longfellow’s sonnet “A...
Antony McDonald, director of this production, puts a modern, mildly feminist spin on Richard Strauss’s opera-within-an-opera and it responds rather well. The...
Investec Holland Park Isabeau is a strange, rather clunky piece and it was completely new to me. Think Spamalotmeets The Merchant of Venice with a seasoning...
Dulwich Opera Company This rather elegant, intelligent Cosi is a good example of what can be achieved with six singers, a pianist...
De La Warr Pavilion, Sunday 1 July 2018 An hour with Rodgers and Hammerstein is, on a glorious summer evening by the...
When I interviewed Emma Troubridge, ROH’s Head of Scenic Art, recently, she told me that this Swan Lake is the biggest show she has...
I first encountered La Traviata when I was about nine. My father, who wasn’t actually a great classical music man, saw it at Royal...