Schubert: Der Einsame CD review – Young tenor Ilker Arcayürek is in a class on his own
Arcayürek/Lepper (Champs Hill) It’s been a while since we’ve had a debut disc as engaging as this....
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...
King Arthur review – home truths with Purcell transposed to the age of Brexit
Barbican, London Daisy Evan’s bold new version – reflecting on national identity – was strongly...
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...
Review: Elektra, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, Sept. 19, 2017
Keith Warner's frenetic, conceptually driven production of Richard Strauss's Elektra (1909)...
