It’s a bunch of firsts for the Hampstead Garden Opera and their new production of Claudio Monteverdi’s marvellous opera L’incoronazione…
Music
When I was growing up, I discovered new music the old-fashioned way: radio, MTV, and mixtapes from cooler friends. Now,…
What do we expect when we go to hear a pianist play a famous dead composer’s work? Do we want…
“Tosca” … it is Puccini … what’s not to like? True, and it is probably his best opera. But LAOpera’s…
Virgil Thomson used to say that the French played Brahms better than the Germans, and maybe the Austrians play Americans…
LiveConnections is a magnet music/arts collective that crosses musical boundaries and brings together artists from different genres for their concert…
The ENO has revived an original Jonathan Miller production that took flight in 1982 – it received rave reviews regarding…
Returning after two years is Mike Leigh’s inimitable production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, which is notably…
Opera folks have their quibbles. There are those who want a classic staging, just as audiences would have seen at…
The first time I saw Lebanese-French pianist-composer Rami Khalife and Syrian clarinetist-composer Kinan Azmeh play together was in 2006 at…
This week is another tasteful and satisfying evening out at the ENO. It is also the second time the ENO…
It’s never good to live in the past, but sometimes we have to, even though as our latest catch phrase…
This is the third time I’ve seen Penny Woolcock’s visually stunning production of The Pearl Fishers at the London Coliseum,…