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Month: November 2017

Semiramide at Covent Garden

Posted on November 23, 2017November 23, 2017 by Michael Church
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 plays Die Kunst der Fuge

Posted on November 22, 2017November 22, 2017 by Michael Church
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

Stimmung at 40

Posted on November 21, 2017November 22, 2017 by Michael Church
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

Katie Mitchell’s ‘Lucia’

Posted on November 9, 2017November 9, 2017 by Michael Church
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 tragedie de Carmen at Wilton’s

Posted on November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 by Michael Church
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

The Emersons play the Grosse Fuge

Posted on November 2, 2017November 2, 2017 by Michael Church
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

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