Siegfried Royal Opera House ★★★★★ Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen – four operas together lasting 16 hours – defies neat theoretical analysis. You could spend a lifetime study...Read More
Nikolai Lugansky Wigmore Hall, London Nikolai Lugansky was a typical Soviet prodigy, able at five to learn a Beethoven sonata by ear, before he could even read music. As one of the last survivors of t...Read More
Tristan und Isolde Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes A German critic once truly opined that, in Tristan und Isolde, ‘on the stage walk sounds, not people’. Wagner was desperate to realise through...Read More
Michael Church – International Piano live roundup May 2024 Queen Elizabeth Hall: Marc-André Hamelin Feb 23 Wigmore Hall: Andras Schiff March 3; Steven Osborne March 12; Pavel Kolesnikov and...Read More
Lohengrin, Royal Opera House, London Just have faith in our love, says Elsa’s white knight after his arrival in a boat pulled by a swan, making it a condition of matrimony that she should never ask ...Read More