Royal Opera’s Giustino is just the ticket

Royal Opera’s Giustino is just the ticket

Half man, half machine, George Frideric Handel broke off in the autumn of 1736 from the composition of Giustino, three weeks in, to write Alcina, then went back to finish Giustino in five days. Within months both works were staged at his new base, the Theatre Royal,...
Cuore Orchestra: Beethoven, Grieg, Mendelssohn

Cuore Orchestra: Beethoven, Grieg, Mendelssohn

By Fiona Hook Cuore Orchestra / William Dutton, Oxana Shevchenko, piano Royal Hall, Harrogate, Saturday 27 September 2025 Back in March, conductor William Dutton began to fulfil his apparently crazy dream of launching a new professional orchestra in Yorkshire, not in...