Choral at Cadogan: The Tallis Scholars open a new season
This, and the striking opening of the first piece, Palestrina’s motet Laudate pueri, set me...
Stars of Lyric Opera 2017, Millennium Park, Chicago
The Lyric Opera Orchestra and the Lyric Opera Chorus, under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis and...
Review: A Verlaine Songbook
Today, singers and their pianists are often more willing also to explore repertory by composers...
Oedipe review – Jurowski makes case for Enescu’s ‘lost masterpiece’
Royal Festival Hall, London The anti-Freudian Oedipus opera may not flawless, but this performance...
Khovanshchina review – Russia’s tragedy becomes the world’s in compelling revival
Millennium Centre, Cardiff Welsh National Opera mark the centenary of the 1917 revolutions in this...
Die Zauberflöte at the ROH: radiant and eternal
As we journey from the dungeon-esque darkness of the Queen’s nocturnal demesne towards the...