by Melanie Eskenazi
Puccini comes to Holland Park, with up-and-coming talent both onstage and in the pit.
by Christian Hoskins
The Barbican Hall was filled to capacity for the third of three concerts featuring the music of Copland, Britten and Shostakovich under the baton of...
by Melanie Eskenazi
Mozart’s youthful singspiel gets a snappy, zestful production at Garsington, and although the updating won’t please everyone, it is consistently inventive, funny and most importantly...
by Melanie Eskenazi
Figaro occupies a special place at Glyndebourne, so it’s a great pleasure to report that this revival of the 2012 production positively fizzes with energy,...
by Evan Dickerson
Billed as the “Ode to Joy” concert in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s The Great Classics series, this concert presented two of Beethoven’s most famous works...
by Sam Smith
Opera Holland Park’s 2013 season opens in suitably spirited style with the perennial pairing of operas by Mascagni and Leoncavallo. The settings are updated from...
by Sam Smith
After treating us to Wagner’s first opera, Die Feen (1833), in March, the Chelsea Opera Group returned to the Southbank Centre to present the eighth,...
by Melanie Eskenazi
Exiled from his native land, his music branded “entartete” (degenerate) Hanns Eisler began his Hollywood Songbook not long after arriving in Los Angeles in 1942;...
by John-Pierre Joyce
With so many recent appearances with his ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, it is easy to forget that Christophe Rousset started off as a pioneer of...
by Sam Smith
In a pre-concert talk, conductor Christopher Hogwood explained how the popular view that by 1740 Handel’s operas were failing, forcing him to reinvent himself through...
by Sam Smith
This recital, the second in the Wagner 200 series and the first in the 2013 London Song Festival, was unique in representing the only occasion...
by Sam Smith
There was a jubilant atmosphere at the Southbank Centre. Across the afternoon Opera Forge performed excerpts from Das Rheingold, Die Walküre and Siegfried in the...
by Melanie Eskenazi
Not so much cabbages and kings, as cabbages and cats; once more, the ginger pussy is one of the stars of Richard Jones’ 2009 production...
by Melanie Eskenazi
Glyndebourne is cementing its reputation of late not only as the opera house which has put its money where its mouth is in terms of...
by Melanie Eskenazi
Ariadne auf Naxos is not exactly the most sensible of operas, but this production makes surprisingly good sense of what is often rendered silly, and...
by Sam Smith
John Fulljames’ new production of Rossini’s La donna del lago, an opera that has not been seen at Covent Garden for 28 years, illustrates how...
by Christian Hoskins
This superb concert by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen paired two contrasted Shostakovich works from the 1930s, the European premiere of the recently unearthed...
