Semiramide, Royal Opera House, 22.11.17 Rossini’s Semiramide premiered in Venice in 1823, and throughout the nineteenth century it was a popular vehicle for great voices, but in the twentieth...Read More
Anne Page, Royal Festival Hall, 21.11.17 JS Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge – The Art of Fugue – is one of music’s most teasing mysteries. As the culmination of his lifelong experiment in cou...Read More
Singcircle, Barbican, 20.11.17 Three men and three women, each with a microphone, seated in a semi-circle round a table on which a luminous globe had been placed: seven ascending notes, and a s...Read More
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House, 8.11.17 Donizetti composed his Scottish tragedy nearly two centuries ago, yet real life has only recently caught up with it. Lucia loves Edgardo, but is ...Read More
La tragédie de Carmen, Wilton’s Music Hall, London Wilton’s Music Hall is a charming and perfectly-preserved remnant of London’s historic East End, and it’s still serving the purpose f...Read More
Emerson Quartet, St John’s Smith Square, London, 1.11.17 ‘Incomprehensible’ was one leading critic’s verdict when Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge was premiered in 1825. ‘This work will be c...Read More