by Web Editor | Mar 29, 2017 | Music
Buried treasure Jessica Duchen Every now and then someone unearths a piece by Delius and holds its opaline gorgeousness up to the light to glimmer for a moment before it is shoved back into hiding. The rarity of his music is our loss, and it speaks volumes about the... 
by Web Editor | Mar 28, 2017 | Drama
Willam Russell Garry O’Connor’s The Vagabond Lover to be published on 24 April by CentreHouse Press, pirce £20, is a memoir about his relationship with his famous father Cavan O’Connor, the broadcasting and variety star. Garry O’Conner who has... 
by Web Editor | Mar 22, 2017 | Music
Gangland style Rick Jones Much blood flows in the London Handel Festival’s gangland production of the composer’s 1737 opera. The show opens with a body oozing gore on the stage. It is the family’s heir: and the father, swearing vengeance in extravagant recitative,... 
by Web Editor | Mar 14, 2017 | Music
Cobblers in clubland Jessica Duchen It’s all pomp and circumstance as Kasper Holten’s new production of Meistersinger takes us through the portals of a posh gentlemen’s music club. The Danish director is stepping down as head of opera at the Royal Opera House, and... 
by Web Editor | Mar 10, 2017 | Music
It’s no fairytale Tom Sutcliffe Opera North has long been careful with money, and the decision to programme three fairy-story operas using one designer (Giles Cadle) with three different directors must have looked quite canny. However, in practice it had less... 