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...
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,...
This conventionally structured concert – a concerto sandwiched by two symphonies – presented the BPO pared down to classical chamber size, which...
Elgar’s In the South, written in 1904 and the oldest work of the afternoon, was a resounding opener in this all twentieth century programme....
Loosely, but not aggressively, themed for Remembrance Day this concert gave us the works of one composer whose pacificism drove him across the Atlantic,...
Iain Burnside is a commensurate communicator. Witness his often quirky, but always fascinating, programmes on Radio 3 over the years and his...