by Web Editor | Nov 29, 2016 | Music
Enduring love Helen Wallace Scarred with the epithet “the ugliest show at Covent Garden in living memory”, Jonathan Kent’s 2014 production was never going to make an easy revival. Deprived of Jonas Kaufmann and Kristine Opolais as Des Grieux and Manon, would it even... 
by Web Editor | Nov 18, 2016 | Music
Pride of Brum Christopher Morley Never mind the noisy disco mayhem from a private, lucrative booking which blocked off the ICC Mall on this Wednesday evening; there was Mirga magic galore enthralling a packed CBSO audience within Symphony Hall. and a live BBC Radio 3... 
by Web Editor | Nov 11, 2016 | Music
Enter, cry, die Lucien Jenkins Having adapted Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck for opera early in the 1920s, Alban Berg turned at the end of that decade to another revolutionary feast of sex and violence in the shape of Franz Wedekind’s Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora. The... 
by Web Editor | Nov 11, 2016 | Music
Goodbye to all that Amanda Holloway It’s the final outing for John Schlesinger’s lavish 1980 production of Les contes d’Hoffmann, made for the Royal Opera on the centenary of Offenbach’s death. Like the other recently retired warhorse, John Copley’s La bohème, it’s a... 
by Web Editor | Nov 3, 2016 | Drama
IATC condemnation Margareta Sorenson, IATC President The International Association of Theatre Critics strongly condemns the recent ban imposed in Turkey upon the works of a few major classical playwrights. It has been revealed in the international media that State... 