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 ...
Scriabin: 2nd symphony and piano concerto (Lawo classics)
What did Alexander Scriabin have in common with Donald J. Trump? Small hands, that’s what....
Aida opens the season at ENO
Writing of McDermott’s Satyagraha in 2010, one of my colleagues wrote, ‘There are so many amazing...
Aida review – power and passion marred by a few duff notes
Coliseum, London Phelim McDermott’s new production for ENO features some virtuoso turns and...
La Traviata in San Francisco
Romanian soprano Aurelia Florian sings Violetta in all ten performances (through October 17). She...
Review: Meet the Young Artists, COC Ensemble Studio, Four Season’s Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Sept. 26, 2017
For the past 12 years, the annual ‘Meet the Young Artists’ recital that kicks off the Canadian...
