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...
BOOK REVIEW The Sleeping Beauties Tim Hochstrasser 23/03/2024‘Sleeping Beauties’ is Lucy Ashe’s second novel, coming swiftly after ‘Clara & Olivia’, reviewed here last year. It explores similar...
Lettice & Lovage – in aid of Alzheimer’s Research UK Rivka Jacobson 19/03/2024Sir Peter Shaffer’s sparkling comedy and exquisite satire Lettice & Lovage was first performed in 1987. It ran for over...
Reviewer's rating Dido And Aeneas Josi Steinfeld 06/02/2024When American superstar mezzo Joyce DiDonato comes to town, it is always a hot ticket. This time she returns with...
Reviewer's rating Rossi – The Songs of Solomon Owen Davies 15/12/2023This extraordinary concert at St John’s Smith Square was part of the Rossi400 project organised by Vache Baroque, a group...
Josef Mysliveček The Bohemian composer Mel Cooper 21/11/2023I want to draw your attention in this feature article to the Bohemian composer, Josef Mysliveček (1737 – 1781). He’s...
A plaque unveiled Rivka Jacobson 21/09/2023A plaque honouring the inspirational founder of Hampstead Theatre has been unveiled at the theatre in north London. James Roose-Evans,...
The Mill at Sonning Rivka Jacobson 23/08/2023‘The Mill at Sonning’ may sound more like a title for a 19-century romantic novel than a name of a...
Music for Refugees Mel Cooper 11/05/2023On Saturday, 22 April 2023, in the mediaeval University Church of St Mary’s in Oxford, an important new initiative was...
Reviewer's rating David Suchet Poirot And More, A Retrospective Josi Steinfeld 16/03/2023It is a rare occurrence to be able to see a great actor’s one man show. We were privileged to...
