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Micheli’s ‘Alcina’ at Glyndebourne – a provocative triumph

Posted on July 4, 2022July 8, 2022 by Michael Church
Alcina Glyndebourne Festival Opera, West Sussex   ★★★★★ In Francesco Micheli’s new production of Handel’s Alcina, the lights go up on a little family whose dysfunctional demeanour sugg... Read More

Classical events under Covid

Posted on October 28, 2020October 29, 2020 by Michael Church
I Solomon,  Great Hall, Bart’s Hospital Quatuor pour la fin du temps, St Paul’s Cathedral New Dark Age, Royal Opera House, London With the whole world of classical music engaged in streaming, l... Read More

The ROH streams, but the outlook for musicians is dire

Posted on June 15, 2020June 18, 2020 by Michael Church
Musicians are at a precipice – but does the government care? Given a fanatical Brexiteer cabinet fixated on impossible dreams, and  some stunningly inadequate ministers in charge of important a... Read More

Glyndebourne’s ‘Rinaldo’ beds in brilliantly

Posted on August 10, 2019August 20, 2019 by Michael Church
Rinaldo, Glyndebourne It’s a great pity that this year’s Glyndebourne offering at the Proms should be its new Magic Flute, because that uneven show’s raison d’etre is sight gag... Read More

English Touring Opera’s cool, intelligent Radamisto

Posted on October 7, 2018October 12, 2018 by Michael Church
Radamisto, Hackney Empire Coming fresh from a clunkily over-heated Ring at Covent Garden, and a deranged travesty of Salome at the Coliseum, it’s sweet relief to encounter English Touring Opera’s ... Read More

With Joelle Harvey the brilliant McVicar ‘Giulio Cesare’ finds its perfect Cleopatra

Posted on June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 by Michael Church
Giulio Cesare, Glyndebourne Festival Opera With its plum roles for the castrato Senesino and the soprano Francesca Cuzzoni, Handel’s Giulio Cesare enjoyed huge success when it opened in 1724; no oth... Read More

The Grange Festival kicks off with an enjoyably licentious Agrippina

Posted on June 9, 2018June 11, 2018 by Michael Church
Agrippina, Grange Festival, Hampshire One by one the country house opera companies are getting into gear. Now it’s the Grange Festival – not to be confused with Grange Park Opera, of whose neo-cla... Read More

En passant: the OAE’s triumphant Semele… And a patchy ENO Rodelinda

Posted on October 19, 2017October 30, 2017 by Michael Church
Semele, Royal Festival Hall, 18.10.17 I’ve seen quite a few stage productions of Handel’s Semele, but I can’t remember one as dramatic as the one I’ve just heard by the Orchestra of the Age of... Read More

En passant: Graham Vick’s ‘Mitridate’ – still original after 26 years… and the evergreen Turandot… and an interesting Proms experiment

Posted on June 27, 2017September 26, 2017 by Michael Church
Mitridate, re di Ponto, Royal Opera house, London   Nobody ever talks about Graham Vick’s 26-year-old production of Mitridate, re di Ponto – it seemed to have sunk without trace – but Coven... Read More

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