Features Index
by Barry Creasy
It would not be at all surprising to see a Tricolore flying over the Royal Albert Hall this summer, and for the usual rendition of…
Judged by the standard of its recent seasons, West Green House Opera is surely a contender for the title of most underrated summer opera venue...
While part of the delight of Glyndebourne, Garsington and the various Granges is making a day of it, Opera Holland Park’s unique selling point is...
Garsington’s 2018 season is perhaps the most enticing of all the Summer opera offerings: there are four new productions including a world premiere, and the...
Longborough Festival Opera occupies a special place in the summer opera calendar. Nestled in the Gloucestershire Countryside, with glorious views over the Cotswolds, it is...
Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung, very much a child of post-serialist experimentalism, has, since its first performance in 1968, achieved somewhat of a cult status, not least...
This major exhibition, opening on September 30th, is the first to explore Opera on a grand scale – and what a scale it is, with...
Garsington Opera will present Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande on June 16th, with six further performances. The Philharmonia Orchestra will be conducted by Jac van Steen;...
The Barbican’s multi-arts 2017-18 season is entitled ‘The Art of Change’. It is a response to last year’s Brexit vote, and the UK’s seeming shift...
Situated near Winchfield, West Green House Opera is a wonderful enigma. Small by the standards of many summer opera venues, there is actually much to...
Glyndebourne, Garsington and the various Granges are hardly major treks from the capital, but in terms of accessible summer opera for the average Londoner nothing...
Oliver Mears’ first season and Antonio Pappano’s sixteenth at the Royal Opera House looks like a safe mixture of the new and not so new,...
Booking opens today for the extended 2017 season at Garsington Opera at Wormsley, and if you haven’t yet experienced this idyllic place and its always-...
Longborough Festival Opera occupies a special place in the summer opera calendar. Nestled in the Gloucestershire Countryside, with glorious views over the Cotswolds, it is...
Public booking opens on Sunday for the 2017 Festival, with three new offerings this year, plus three revivals of past successes. The major draws are...
The 2016 Glyndebourne Tour starts in just two weeks’ time, beginning with a new production of Madama Butterfly at Glyndebourne itself on October 14th. The...
Every year when the Proms schedule is released in April there seem to be cries of excitement and expressions of disappointment in almost equal measure....
The Australian mezzo-soprano Caitlin Hulcup has been making quite a name for herself in some of the most prestigious opera houses around the world, and...
Although West Green House Opera is now in its seventeenth season, it still feels like a new discovery. No matter how often one visits, it...
With Martin and Lizzie Graham’s 500-seater opera house standing in the Gloucestershire Countryside, Longborough Festival Opera is well known for providing high quality productions in...
With the return of Haydn, Wagner and Bruckner, the retention of Beethoven and Mahler, a healthy dose of opera and some notable innovations concerning performance...
Gruff Rhys & London Contemporary Orchestra @ Barbican Hall, London
The Field – Infinite Moment
Paul McCartney – Egypt Station
Paul Simon – In The Blue Light
Low – Double Negative
Festival Review: Festival No 6 2018
Yves Tumor – Safe In The Hands Of Love
Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood – With Animals
Proms at Cadogan Hall 6: Soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker @ Cadogan Hall, London
Idles – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
Wild Nothing – Indigo
MNEK – Language
Prom 70: Tango Prom @ Royal Albert Hall, London
Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt
Mothers – Render Another Ugly Method