Donizetti: L’elsir d’amore (Susan Elkin reviews)
Glyndebourne Tour: Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Last month my granddaughter, aged 8, saw this production at Glyndebourne. It was her first opera but...
Glyndebourne Tour: Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Last month my granddaughter, aged 8, saw this production at Glyndebourne. It was her first opera but...
31 October 2019, Islington Paul Fincham, composer of The Little Princess, which premiered at Garsington Opera at Wormsley this summer invited me to this...
St Barnabas Church, Bexhill-on-Sea 5 October 2019 A patchwork programme meant that, on this occasion Bexhill Choral Society and conductor, Kenneth Roberts,...
Marlowe Theatre Canterbury Well this is Matthew Bourne so you arrive expecting nothing remotely conventional or “traditional” (whatever that means) and you’re...
Few things are musically more uplifting than hearing a fine foreign orchestra playing its own national heritage. The Czech Philharmonic plays with...
Concerts are just another form of theatre – especially classical ones which, however hard promoters and co try to de-formalise them, do...
Royal Albert Hall, 3 September 2019 Bernard Haitink’s final London concert was characterised by warmth, dignity and charisma. Many years ago I...
This production of Mozart’s last opera Die Zauberflote is characterised by fine orchestral work, much impeccable singing – and a great deal of directorial...