The Fairy Queen Les arts florissants, conducted by Paul Agnew; Compagnie Käfig, directed by Mourad Merzouki Royal Albert Hall: Prom 24 Sometimes a minority art-form can unexpectedly appear centre-sta...Read More
There are two words – ‘weinte bitterlich’- in a recitative in Bach’s darkly dramatic Johannespassion when the Evangelist must negotiate his path alone through a frenzy of melodic and emotional...Read More
Early Opera Company,Wigmore Hall, 8.12.17 Everyone knows the overture to Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Te Deum, though few have heard of that seventeenth-century French composer. After being pre...Read More