In a review in Le Temps in 1937, Florent Schmitt commented, ‘It was, if I may say, the great feminine week: at the Concerts Lamoureux the Concerto of Mlle Jeanne…
Garsington Opera: 2024 Season Announcement
Garsington Opera is delighted to announce full details of the five operas in the 2024 Season (29 May – 31 July 2024). Opening the Festival, The English Concert under Baroque…
Announcement of the 2024 Wexford Festival Opera
Programme announced for the73rd Wexford Festival Opera80 events, 16 daysrunning from 18 October to 2 November 2024Theatre within Theatre – ‘All the World’s a Stage’ The programme for the 2024 Wexford Festival Opera…
Life Victoria: Oxford International Song Festival
Two events on day thirteen of the Festival, in partnership with LIFE Victoria in Barcelona, marked the centenary of the great Spanish soprano Victoria de los Angeles, a celebration that…
Un ballo in maschera: Chelsea Opera Group at Cadogan Hall
The title of Un ballo in maschera may suggest elegance and courtly high jinx, but Verdi’s opera, with its vengeful assassins, Beelzebub-conjuring sorceress and murderous drawing of lots is a…
The Pre-Raphaelite Poets: Oxford International Song Festival
Continuing this year’s theme of the relationship between the musical, poetic and visual arts, this Oxford International Song Festival lunchtime recital purported to reflect the topics which ‘fixated the artists…
The Colour Revolution: Oxford International Song Festival
The Ashmolean Museum’s current special exhibition, Colour Revolution: Victorian art, fashion & design, aims to dispel the notion of the Victorian era as a bleak, black-and-white industrial age by revealing…
Visions and Visuals: Oxford International Song Festival
When you listen to a piece of music, performed live or on a recording, do visual images and visions sweep or fly through your mind, or fix themselves indelibly on…
Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno: The English Concert at Wigmore Hall
Clori, Tirsi e Fileno is one of Handel’s many ‘dramatic cantatas’, composed during his Italian sojourn of 1706-10 and performed in the private homes and palaces of wealthy patrons, to…
Lohengrin in San Francisco
This is the excellent David Alden 2018 production from Covent Garden. Here is how it fared at the War Memorial Opera House. It fit like a glove due to strong…