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)...
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...
