by Lucien Jenkins | Oct 8, 2021 | Music
The Royal Opera’s new Rigoletto has the casting is just right. Lisette Oropesa’s Gilda (who shares the role with Rosa Feola) manages the difficult balance between the coloratura writing of the part and the youthful innocence of the role. After all, she mustn’t be...
by Guy Rickards | Oct 6, 2021 | Music
Kelly Glyptis, in the title role, and Thomas Kelly as her lover Emile, in ‘Madeleine’ Surrey Opera is a semi-professional company, founded in 1969. Like many similar companies around the country, they offer a platform for young and aspiring singers. Unlike...
by Lucien Jenkins | Sep 29, 2021 | Music
Photo by Richard Hubert Smith Puccini could almost have written Madama Butterfly after hearing an appeal at a conference on intersectionality for material to support a new module, with its tragic tale of a woman misused by a man, a confrontation between a more- and a...
by Guy Rickards | Sep 29, 2021 | Music
Galynin: Complete Works for Strings Scherzo*.**. Aria*,**. Suite**. String Quartet No 1*,***,****. String Quartet No 2*,***,***** *Anastasia Latysheva (vn). **Academy of Russian Music / Ivan Nikiforchin. ***Arina Minaeva (violin), Anna Scherbakova (cello)....
by Fiona Hook | Jul 29, 2021 | Music, Uncategorized
What London really needs is more small summer arts festivals in nice venues. The newest to appear is The Shipwright, two weeks of cultural events in the Master Shipwright’s house in Deptford, kicked off with an informal but highly polished recital of lute songs by...
by Rick Jones | Jul 21, 2021 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Visual Arts
On Wednesday 14 July 2021, towards the end of the morning, the Critics’ Circle helped to get the wheels of live social intercourse moving again when fifty members arrived for luncheon at the National Liberal Club. The guest of honour was novelist and playwright...
