It may not have been possible for Snape Maltings to host the Aldeburgh Festival this year or last, but the Maltings have not been silent and the Summer at Snape…
Author: Claire Seymour
Dramatic darkness and vocal delights as Kasper Holten’s Don Giovanni returns to the Royal Opera House
So, after a Così that was wonderfully serene but somewhat serioso, now a Don Giovanni that impresses vocally but seems to have lost some of its giocoso. Kasper Holten’s production…
VOCES8 open Live for London Summer with a sprinkle of stardust
VOCES8’s new Live from London summer festival opened in ‘sparkling’ fashion with a characteristically mixed repertoire programme, entitled Stardust. Much was reassuringly familiar, and very welcome: the perfect blending and…
Glyndebourne’s Così fan tutte provides welcome reassurance and orderliness
When I last saw Nicholas Hytner’s 2006 Glyndebourne production of Così fan tutte – at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury during the 2017 autumn tour, at the time reportedly the…
Handel’s London Altos: Iestyn Davies at Kings Place
At Kings Place it’s currently half-portions and double-helpings: to ‘get round’ the 50% capacity restrictions, the answer is simply to perform the concert twice – and Iestyn Davies and the…
Leeds Lieder Festival: Benjamin Britten’s Five Canticles
Benjamin Britten’s five Canticles span his compositional career, from 1947 to 1974, and reflect the eclectic musical, poetic and cultural influences and idioms which he integrated into an independent expressive…
Natalya Romaniw and Iain Burnside: a wonderful lunchtime recital at Leeds Lieder 2021
Natalya Romaniw’s compelling but frustratingly foreshortened debut as Cio-Cio San at English National Opera in February 2020 was one of the last live performances I heard before the theatres of…
Baritone Gihoon Kim from Republic of Korea crowned BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021
Baritone Gihoon Kim, from Republic of Korea became on Saturday evening (19th June) the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021. The announcement was made during the broadcast of the…
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha wins the Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021
Twenty-seven year old soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, from South Africa, was yesterday named the winner of the Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021. The announcement was…
Glyndebourne announces two new trustees and Creative Conspirators ‘think tank’
Glyndebourne has announced the appointment of two new members to its Board of Trustees – Sharmila Nebhrajani OBE, Chair of NICE, and top solicitor Helen Ward, a partner at Stewarts…