No wonder tickets almost sold out as soon as they went on sale. Everyone in town seemed to be...
Reviews
Le Siège de Corinthe in Pesaro
We were all eager participants, harangued lengthily and forcibly by a high priest of the Greeks to...
Dunedin Consort perform Bach’s St John Passion at the Proms
For the climax of the BBC Proms celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Butt and...
Macbeth review – high camp, dark drama and more than a hint of Game of Thrones
Festival theatre, Edinburgh This new production from Teatro Regio Torino has a solid cast and...
Collision: Spectra Ensemble at the Arcola Theatre
The conspiracy theorists are ever vigilant for signs of impending apocalypse. Only a few days ago,...
Joshua Bell offers Hispanic headiness at the Proms
But, the ‘Spain’ of Debussy’s Iberia or Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole and L'Heure espagnole was...
John Joubert’s Jane Eyre
Composers tend to steer clear of sprawling nineteenth-century tomes, with their vast casts of...
Hibiki: a European premiere by Mark-Anthony Turnage at the Proms
At this Proms performance, the first outside Japan, soloists soprano Sally Matthews and...
Don Giovanni review – Ivan Fischer’s singular vision leaves his singers in limbo
Festival theatre, Edinburgh Fischer is a conductor with great things to say about Mozart but this...