75th King’s Lynn Music Festival, 12-25 July 2026 Tim Hochstrasser 29/07/2026 1011The King’s Lynn Festival of Music and the Arts celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Founded by Ruth, Lady Fermoy,...
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival Tim Hochstrasser 26/05/2026 1940“If you bake a cake, you don’t want to stuff your face with the whole lot, you want to share...
Wexford Festival Opera 2026 – A Preview Tim Hochstrasser 22/04/2026 2093This year is the 75th anniversary of Wexford Festival Opera. It will run for just over a fortnight, from Thursday,...
Mozart’s Requiem: Listening Back to Da Ponte’s Lost World Rivka Jacobson 31/01/2026 2844During the Barbican performance of Mozart’s Requiem, there was a moment — brief and unanticipated — when the music unsettled...
From Page to Stage: Yiddish Voices Behind Fiddler on the Roof Rivka Jacobson 08/06/2025 4440In the ferment of 19th-century Eastern Europe, amid the upheavals of empire, migration, and modernity, Jewish writers began to carve...
Beyond the Libretto: How Music Tells Women’s Stories in Opera Rivka Jacobson 03/06/2025 4555Opera Holland Park’s 2025 season opens with Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, closes with Verdi’s La Traviata, and, in between, presents...
Rebellion, Resignation, and Survival in Ibsen, Chekhov, Rattigan, and Williams Rivka Jacobson 21/05/2025 3608In the landscape of modern drama, few figures loom as poignantly as the woman on the verge — poised between...
Lettice & Lovage – in aid of Alzheimer’s Research UK Rivka Jacobson 19/03/2024 3084Sir Peter Shaffer’s sparkling comedy and exquisite satire Lettice & Lovage was first performed in 1987. It ran for over...
Josef Mysliveček The Bohemian composer Mel Cooper 21/11/2023 3414I want to draw your attention in this feature article to the Bohemian composer, Josef Mysliveček (1737 – 1781). He’s...
A plaque unveiled Rivka Jacobson 21/09/2023 2633A plaque honouring the inspirational founder of Hampstead Theatre has been unveiled at the theatre in north London. James Roose-Evans,...
