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A powerful and convincing Butterfly at the ROH

Posted on June 15, 2022June 16, 2022 by Michael Church
Madama Butterfly Royal Opera House, London, ★★★★ Nobody could accuse Covent Garden of backwardness in virtue-signalling. They recently announced plans for trigger-warnings when murder, rape, a... Read More

From Glyndebourne a weird Boheme, with brilliant principals

Posted on June 12, 2022June 15, 2022 by Michael Church
  La bohème Glyndebourne Festival Opera,  ★★★★ It seems to matter more to Floris Visser that an audience should recognise his personal imprint, than whether he’s served a work as it d... Read More

At Garsington, the ‘Orfeo’ of our dreams, and a brilliantly revived ‘Cosi’

Posted on June 3, 2022June 6, 2022 by Michael Church
Orfeo/Cosi fan tutte Garsington Opera, Wormsley The director and designer of Garsington’s new Orfeo – John Caird and Robert Jones – invite their audience to get involved in the ‘immersive arti... Read More

ENO’s new production of The Handmaid’s Tale – a clever staging, but a very unpleasant experience

Posted on April 10, 2022June 5, 2022 by Michael Church
The Handmaid’s Tale Coliseum, London George Orwell’s 1984 did what no other novel had done before: it predicted the shape of the political world to come. The embodiment of its predictions may have... Read More

Peter Grimes at ROH – a standout success

Posted on March 28, 2022March 30, 2022 by Michael Church
Peter Grimes Royal Opera House, London ★★★★★ Michael Church Allan Clayton, John Tomlinson, Bryn Terfel, Jacques Imbrailo, James Gilchrist, John Graham-Hall – and all under the musical dire... Read More

Yoav Levanon’s London debut

Posted on March 20, 2022March 22, 2022 by Michael Church
A new concert series (HP Futures); a new venue (St Martin-in-the-Fields has transformed both its subterranean regions and its artistic programme); and a potential new star in the making: what’s not ... Read More

A welcome to Figure, the new period-performance band

Posted on September 18, 2021September 19, 2021 by Michael Church
Figure St John Passion St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield In medieval times, miracles were often ascribed to the healing power of the priory at St Bartholomew the Great, London’s oldest parish chu... Read More

‘Yellow Star – Red Star’ – a remarkable and shocking story

Posted on August 2, 2021August 24, 2021 by Michael Church
Yellow Star – Red Star By Agnes Kaposi with László Csősz i2i Publishing £16.95 300pp Agnes Kaposi begins her autobiography with a disarmingly simple statement. ‘I should have had a good start ... Read More

The Selfish Giant – a fine new youth opera

Posted on August 2, 2021August 3, 2021 by Michael Church
I have just watched John Barber’s youth opera The Selfish Giant at Garsington. And I can’t remember when I last heard a new opera – for any age-group – which gave me such unalloyed pleasur... Read More

Classical events under Covid

Posted on October 28, 2020October 29, 2020 by Michael Church
I Solomon,  Great Hall, Bart’s Hospital Quatuor pour la fin du temps, St Paul’s Cathedral New Dark Age, Royal Opera House, London With the whole world of classical music engaged in streaming, l... Read More
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