by Web Editor | May 25, 2016 | Music
Oedipus the spectacle Amanda Holloway Basking in the sunshine of Enescu’s glorious score for Oedipe at the Royal Opera, I remembered the last time I became obsessed with the music of Romania’s foremost composer. Someone had given me a recording of...
by Web Editor | May 24, 2016 | Visual Arts
David Buckman Just launched in a corner of that cornucopia of nostalgia, the V&A Museum of Childhood, is a free exhibition that will probably give more pleasure to more people than many costly West End blockbusters. Clangers, Bagpuss & Co is a first major...
by Web Editor | May 20, 2016 | Music
Battle songs Lucien Jenkins The first thing to say about In Parenthesis (both book and opera) is that it doesn’t major on narrative. Welsh volunteers to fight in the First World War gather in Britain, are shipped to France, march to Mametz Wood and are there killed....
by Web Editor | May 11, 2016 | Music
Fairytale Flute Jessica Duchen A “staged concert”, according to conductor Iván Fischer, is “a theatrical performance designed for a concert hall”, its goal “organic unity” between music and theatre. That’s what opera performances are anyway, aren’t they? Oh, wait…...
by Web Editor | May 9, 2016 | Drama
Gay’s not quite the word William Russell The London fringe sometimes springs a surprise and steals the thunder of the great and the good, this time that of those who reside in the subsidised palace on the South Bank, with The Buskers Opera, a new musical, at the...
