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Toward the Unknown Region with Fleur Barron and Mauro Peter at Wigmore Hall
If you wanted to devise an evening of art songs suitable for Hallowe’en, you could do worse than come up with composers like Mahler, Schubert, Britten and George Crumb, all…
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The BBC Symphony and Stasevska Deliver a London Premiere at the Barbican
Let me tell you about an intergalactic oratorio. What on earth is that, you might conceivably ask. And in order to initiate a dialogue I might suggest that you speculate…
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An Engaging Marriage of Figaro from Glyndebourne
With over 600 performances of Le Nozze de Figaro at Glyndebourne, here titled as The Marriage of Figaro, it’s an understatement to say that this address has form with this imperishable comedy. But how…
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A Rare Outing of Charpentier’s David and Jonathan from New Sussex Opera
“I’m enjoying the singing, but I’m not sure what’s going on” were the first words I overheard in the bar during the interval at Eastbourne’s Devonshire Park Theatre. The comment…
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Manon in San Francisco
Things were indeed confusing when a presumed early 18th century stage coach was said to have pulled into Amiens. Hordes of passengers emerged in search of their baggage while a…
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Death of Gesualdo – Agony and Ecstasy from a Troubled Genius
“A composer of extraordinary genius, whose works still live as the passionate expression of a strange personality.” So wrote Peter Warlock some 300 years after Carlo Gesualdo’s death in 1613. A…
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Moral Bankruptcy at the Heart of Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone at English National Opera
Opera has a history of provoking and unsettling audiences. One may be less disturbed these days by Salomé or The Rape of Lucretia, but a few contemporary works including Jake Heggie’s interrogation into how one…
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A Monumental Resurrection from Pappano and the LSO
Which work do you select with which to open your new concert season? It makes sense to do it in style. Not with a whimper, but with a bang. This time…
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Verdi’s Macbeth at the Met
The 2026–27 Met season has opened with a run of Verdi’s Scottish opera, to be cinema-cast this weekend. It is a smooth professional effort, though uneven casting and overexuberant staging…
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Moments of Transcendent Beauty at Cadogan Hall
Once in a while you come across adventurous programming which takes you worlds away from the tired predictability of some promoters. That was the case here, in an assembly of…
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MOURN: FIGURE and Alkanna Graeca at Stone Nest
The London venue Stone Nest seems to be a hub for innovation: in March 2024, I attended a performance of Our Mother, starring Emma Kirkby and with the same ensemble as…