The roles of Orphée, Eurydice, and Amour are sung by Dmitry Korchak, Adrianna Chuchman, and Lauren...
Communications
Michelle DeYoung, Mahler Symphony no 3 London
The concert was live streamed worldwide, an indication of just how important this concert was, for...
King Arthur at the Barbican: a semi-opera for the ‘Brexit Age’
Do we need to know the political context in which a work was created in order to fully appreciate...
Elder conducts Lohengrin
There have been dozens of capable, and more than capable, recordings of Lohengrin. Among the...
Anne Schwanewilms sings Schreker, Schubert, Liszt and Korngold
On a day when events in Las Vegas cast a shadow over much of the news this was not the most...
The Life to Come: a new opera by Louis Mander and Stephen Fry
It began ‘with a purely obscene fancy of a Missionary in difficulties’. So E.M. Forster wrote to...
‘Never was such advertisement for a film!’: Thomas Kemp and the OAE present a film of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier at the Oxford Lieder Festival
The film was half the length of the opera but included some additional scenes such as a huge...
Premiere Recording: Mayr’s Telemaco nell’isola di Calipso (1797)
No sooner had I drafted my review of Simon Mayr’s Medea in Corinto, recently posted ...
Aida opens the season at ENO
Writing of McDermott’s Satyagraha in 2010, one of my colleagues wrote, ‘There are so many amazing...
La Traviata in San Francisco
Romanian soprano Aurelia Florian sings Violetta in all ten performances (through October 17). She...