Features Index
by Simon Thomas
Not all of us can jet off to this or that festival (apart from anything, it’s bad for the environment) but we can dream. And…
At this year’s Olivier Awards, presented at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on Sunday night, there were three opera recipients. A Special Award was presented...
The Royal Festival Hall is finally back, and with a programme packed to bursting with great orchestras, conductors and soloists.Opening night is 11 June, with...
Soprano Lesley Garrett has been successful in everything she’s turned her hand to – stage work (both operatic and musical theatre), concerts, television, recordings and...
The Royal Festival Hall is finally back, and with a programme packed to bursting with great orchestras, conductors and soloists.Opening night is 11 June ,...
Mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer is one of the most respected and admired opera singers of the past three decades, her vivid performing style, pronounced acting ability...
A witty conversationalist and modest interlocutor, baritone Anthony Michaels-Moore’s real-life persona could hardly be further from that of the character he’s about to play at...
With the Royal Festival Hall threatening to finally reopen in June of this year, its competitors must work especially hard to attract both audiences and...
Antonio Pappano in the pit and a high-octane cast including Eva Maria-Westbroek, Bryn Terfel and Placido Domingo gracing the boards, anticipation is sky high (from...
One of the joys of living in London is that you can go out almost every night of the year and see world-class music-making. Londoners...
John Fulljames is the Artistic Director of the middle-scale touring company The Opera Group, which is gaining a reputation for exciting and accessible productions of...
American opera and theatre director Francesca Zambello’s productions have been seen the world over.From La bohme in the round at the Royal Albert Hall to...
Sarah Chang is the classic child prodigy, beginningto play the violin at the age of four, performing withmajor orchestras by the age of eight.While mostviolinists...
2006 was the year of the big anniversary, as orchestras and opera houses went head to head in celebrating the 250th and 100th birthdays of,...
It’s been a busy year for composer Will Todd, his projects including an off-Broadway musical, an opera world premiere at Gateshead and another for Welsh...
The clocks have turned back and winter’s here.But there’s no need to despair: some of London’s best concerts and opera productions might just help you...
If there is such a thing as the ‘ideal Tosca’, the name that springs to mind is that of Maria Callas. Less familiar to those...
American soprano Katie van Kooten has benefited from her time on the Royal Opera’s Young Artists Programme even more than most.Back in November 2004, only...
When the musical style known as Minimalism began to take hold in thelate 1960s it would have seemed almost inconceivable that, 40 years on,whole weekends...
