Dark with Excessive Bright
I’ve listened to and liked a lot of Missy Mazzoli’s operatic and vocal music but hadn’t had much exposure to her purely instrumental writing so was interested to get hold…
The latest in Manchester Camerata’s Mozart, Made in Manchester series featured a lovely creative dialogue between Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gábor Takács-Nagy and the players
Mozart, Made in Manchester – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Manchester Camerata – The Stoller Hall (Photo Manchester Camerata) Mozart: Overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Piano Concertos Nos. 11…
A treat for tots, ‘Fitting In’ makes magical art with loose parts
Fitting In, a unique and spunky original show written by Patrick W. Lord and Megan Thrift, with original music by Emily Erickson and production by navi, nails its mission of…
Mounting dread
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-sH2MNqYI Manuela Hoelterhoff in the Wall Street Journal: The popular contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink had just sung Clytemnestra in the world premiere of Richard Strauss’s “Elektra” in Dresden in 1909. “A…
Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection
Lyric Opera of Chicago follows a recent world premiere with yet another: “Proximity,” a set of works by three librettist-composer pairs. Go to Source Author: Zachary Woolfe
ENO The Dead City review – Korngold’s study of grief, guilt and obsession is full of queasy beauty
Coliseum, LondonAnnilese Miskimmon’s new production of Korngold’s hallucinatory 1920 work sacrifices some of its disturbing power but musically it is magnificently alert to the mood-shifts and beauty of its sound-world…
Metamorphoses 2023
Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s production of Metamorphoses 2023 opened last night at Crow’s Theatre. It’s an 80 minute show, written and directed by Michele Smith, (with, it’s clear, a lot of input…
Intriguing, illuminating, frustrating: Henning Kraggerud and RNCM Chamber Orchestra
Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3 – Henning Kraggerud & RNCM Chamber Orchestra – RNCM Grieg, arr. Kraggerud & Lund: Violin Sonata No. 3, Bach, arr. Kraggerud & Lund: Goldberg Variations…
A lockdown success story: St Mary’s Perivale and its amazing programme of 120 recitals per year, viewed live and online
Piano recital by Alasdair Beatson at St Mary’s Perivale (Photo : John Ross) One of the success stories of Lockdown, St Mary’s Perivale has managed the tricky task of creating…
A heartrending and resonant revival of ‘Parade’ at Broadway’s Jacobs Theatre
The Broadway transfer of New York City Center’s reworked, highly acclaimed, sold-out revival of Parade – the award-winning musical drama by Alfred Uhry (book, co-conceived by Harold Prince) and Jason…