Investec Opera Holland Park: Cosi fan tutte (Susan Elkin reviews)
What a strange piece Cosi fan tutte is. In a way it covers the same ground as A Midsummer Night’s Dream – sexual licence and the...
What a strange piece Cosi fan tutte is. In a way it covers the same ground as A Midsummer Night’s Dream – sexual licence and the...
Temple Church Choir, London, 24 May 2018 Temple Church, with its lofty fan faulting and intricate stained glass glinting in the early...
Marlowe Theatre and touring Prokofiev’s lush score – with all its minor key melody and those evocative rhythms – dates from 1946...
Alexandra Dariescu (piano) Lindsey Russell (narrator) Jessica Duchen (story) SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD542 It’s an attractive package – a slim CD-sized book, perfect for...
Many of the supportive audience waiting attentively in the sharp acoustic Worthing’s assembly hall had been following the competition all week. So...
The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra finished the season in fine festive fettle. I don’t often laugh aloud in the concert hall but there...
It was a concert full of drama, mostly Russian, under Stephen Bell’s incisive baton. The drama included the conductor literally leaping up...
Anvil Arts, Basingstoke, 16 February 2018 Dvorak is to the Czech Philharmonic what, say, Strauss is to the Vienna Philharmonic. It’s in...