Coram Boy Tim Hochstrasser 05/06/2024‘Coram Boy’ was first performed at the National Theatre in 2005 and was one of the highlights of Nicholas Hytner’s...
Platée Tim Hochstrasser 02/06/2024While performances of operas by Handel and Vivaldi are now frequent, the same cannot be said of the French Baroque,...
Streams of Pleasure Tim Hochstrasser 28/05/2024This concert given by Iestyn Davies, Mary Bevan and the Early Opera Company, led by Christopher Bucknall, not only delivered...
Dream of Gerontius Tim Hochstrasser 22/05/2024Performances of Elgar’s oratorio ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ are hardly infrequent, but this one was special for a number of...
Kunstler Tim Hochstrasser 12/05/2024William M Kunstler’s name is one that needs no introduction to my generation – the leading American progressive defence lawyer...
Pippin 50th Anniversary Concert Richard Voyce 01/05/2024JAC YARROW IS A STAR! I don’t mean just your average West End leading man who can competently helm a...
Reviewer's Rating Simon Boccanegra (original 1857 version) Tim Hochstrasser 19/04/2024Verdi’s ‘Simon Boccanegra’ is, one might think, familiar fare. However, we are used to hearing the version from 1881, which...
Reviewer's rating Cecilia Bartoli and Lang Lang (Recital) Josi Steinfeld 04/04/2024One must travel to Europe to hear her. Bartoli sang the shepherd boy in Tosca aged nine. She sang Rosina...
Reviewer's rating La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) Josi Steinfeld 28/03/2024Donizetti wrote La fille du régiment in Paris. It became a popular success mainly due to the famous tenor aria...
Reviewer's rating Madama Butterfly Josi Steinfeld 25/03/2024On a trip to London, Giacomo Puccini saw a play by David Belasco called Madame Butterfly, taken from a short...
