by Web Editor | Sep 29, 2016 | Music
Overworked Jessica Duchen The music of Così is so sublime it’s a difficult show to ruin. However often a production flies in scenery during the most beautiful passages – I could have lived without the brightly-lit cinema frame descending from the heavens in the middle... 
by Web Editor | Sep 18, 2016 | Music
Darkness rising Lucien Jenkins A plot in which an acclaimed military leader assassinates a head of state, seizes power and loses both moral compass and marbles has “contemporary relevance” written all over it. Similarly, the Act 4 chorus of refugees powerfully singing... 
by Web Editor | Sep 10, 2016 | Music
All dressed up Amanda Holloway Christian Thielemann, a conductor usually associated with Bayreuth and the great Romantic repertoire, made an overdue Proms debut with his Dresden Staatskapelle orchestra. A contrasting programme of Bruckner’s epic Wagner tribute, the... 