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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

Musics Lost and Found – review by Chinese music expert

Posted on November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 by Michael Church
Stephen Jones, the leading authority on Chinese village music, has written a review of Musics Lost and Found which takes my book’s argument further, in many interesting directions… Click here: To ... Read More

Voice of Armenia:  the tragedy of Komitas

Posted on October 28, 2021November 12, 2021 by Michael Church
SOGHOMON SOGHOMONIAN was born in 1869 in Kütahya, an Armenian Christian enclave whose inhabitants suffered systematic oppression under the Ottoman yoke. Even those Armenians who could speak their anc... Read More

Discussing ‘Musics Lost and Found’ on Radio 3’s ‘Music Matters’

Posted on October 4, 2021November 27, 2021 by Michael Church
On Saturday 2 October, Radio 3’s Music Matters carried an item in which Tom Service and I discussed, with musical examples, the central argument of my new book Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors... Read More

‘Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Tradition’

Posted on September 22, 2021November 6, 2021 by Michael Church
  Is folk music dying? In my new book I suggest that it is, at least in Europe and North America, thanks to the globalisation, urbanisation, and industrialisation which is now eroding the worldâ€... 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
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