by Claudia Pritchard | Dec 10, 2025 | Drama, Music
Jacquelyn Stucker is the reluctant bride in “Ariodante” (c) Marc Brenner Georg Frideric Handel: Ariodante Royal Opera House, London, December 9, 2025 Characterisation in Dutch director Jesske Mijnssen’s debut production for the Royal Opera,... 
by Guy Rickards | Nov 24, 2025 | Drama, Music
The cast of ENO’s Partenope, 2025 (c) Lloyd Winters ENO / William Cole The Coliseum, London, 22 November 2025 A week may be a long time in politics but three-and-a-half hours is a goodly while in comic opera. However, despite a convoluted, frivolous plot that is... 
by Claudia Pritchard | Oct 10, 2025 | Drama, Music
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,... 
by Music Editor | Jul 6, 2021 | Music
By Fiona Hook After a year without live music, the listener heads to the Wigmore Hall as the desert traveller to the oasis, and the Edinburgh-based Ensemble Marsyas’s evening of sparkling music from Handel’s Roman period did not disappoint. There was so much to enjoy... 
by Music Editor | Sep 24, 2019 | Music
Mommie dearest By Paul Levy Among my regrets is that I am old enough to have seen and heard Maria Callas perform at Covent Garden, but young enough at the time to feel I could not afford the tickets. It goes some way to make up for this lapse that I have seen Joyce...