Tag: Mozart
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Cosi fan tutte, Royal Opera House, London Gyula Orendt as Guglielmo, Thomas Allen as Don-Alfonso & Paolo Fanale as Ferrando ©ROH/Stephen Cummiskey The German director Jan Philipp Gloger introduc... Read MoreThe Leeds International Piano Comnpetition, 2018
Leeds International Piano Competition, 2018 When the redoubtable Fanny Waterman set up the Leeds Piano Competition in 1963, no one could have predicted its longevity, or the effect it would have on pi... Read MoreNetia Jones misses the point of the Flute
Die Zauberflöte, Garsington Opera at Wormsley When the lights go up on Netia Jones’s production of Die Zauberflöte, we see that she’s turned the stage into a near-simulacrum of the formal garde... Read MoreIs ‘late style’ a meaningful critical concept?
Out, brief candle! As life nears its end, thoughts can acquire urgent clarity. This truth may not be particularly perceptible in literature, because novelists find endless ways of disguising it. But i... Read MoreProm 71 – Trifonov’s mistaken approach to Mozart
Twenty-five-year-old Daniil Trifonov, currently basking in mega-stardom, may not be the best of the young pianists to have recently emerged from the former Soviet bloc – the Uzbek Behzod Abdurai... Read More- 2 of 2
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