Regional music and arts festivals continue to proliferate, so I ask Padmore what it is that makes...
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Turandot in San Francisco
The hype surrounding the Hockney retrospective just now in Paris, last year in London and soon to...
The School of Jealousy: Bampton Classical Opera bring Salieri to London
Second, summer downpours having necessitated removal into the Church of St Mary’s, the nave of...
Richard Jones’ new La bohème opens ROH season
Even before curtain-up, the gently falling snow was sparkling against the black night sky of...
Giovanni Simon Mayr: Medea in Corinto
Medea in Corinto (Medea in Corinth, 1813 and much revised over the course of the next ten years)...
Robin Tritschler and Julius Drake open Wigmore Hall’s 2017/18 season
In fact, John Gilhooly, the Director of the Wigmore Hall, looked surprisingly relaxed on Saturday...
The Opera Box at the Brunel Museum
In fact, Brunel’s Grade II* listed Grand Entrance Hall has rung with the sounds of serenades...
Proms at Wiltons: Eight Songs for a Mad King
Full credit, then, to director Olivia Fuchs, conductor Sian Edwards and the Birmingham...
A Prom of Transformation and Transcendence: Renée Fleming and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
‘We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so...
The Queen’s Lace Handkerchief: Opera della Luna at Wilton’s Music Hall
The musical memory had been jolted by the waltzing strains of Roses from the South, the...