Reviews

METAMORPHOSIS_12 Ensemble

Brighton Festival – Metamorphosis – 12 Ensemble

- 17 May 2024

I had really wanted to enjoy this event which was to include two new works...

ACTUALLY GAY MEN’S CHORUS: Gays and Dolls

- 17 May 2024

The Actuallys are never shy of shaking things up a little and last night’s concert...

GOLDILOCKS

- 13 May 2024

There’s always something cheering about entering any kind of arena to find a full and...

Hilary-Summers

Brighton Festival –  What’s So Great About Opera? Hilary Summers & Andrew West

- 9 May 2024

I read the advertisement twice, carefully, and still had no idea what to expect, but...

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Brighton Festival – ‘The South Country’ – Hugh Cutting, Rebecca Leggett & George Ireland

- 9 May 2024

We expected good – very good – and got more than excellent! Two years ago...

Brighton Festival –  Mahan Esfahani at Glyndebourne with Britten Sinfonia soloists

- 6 May 2024

Mahan Esfahani clearly loves hosting a party and that is how this afternoon turned out,...

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Brighton Festival –  London Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)

- 6 May 2024

Samuel Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ seemed a strange choice to launch a Festival, but I’m...

BREMF – The ‘Contenance Angloise’ – BREMF Consort of Voices, Deborah Roberts (director)

- 6 May 2024

Deborah Roberts scored another brilliant success with this afternoon concert of the mind-bendingly complex compositions...

BGMC air: Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus

- 5 May 2024

Well there could not have been a camper, more exuberant start to the festival than...

KEMBLE’S RIOT

- 5 May 2024

It hardly seems possible that Brighton Open Air Theatre is already ten years old and...

CARMEN

- 4 May 2024

The familiarity of Bizet’s most popular work makes it a must see choice for opera...

UTE LEMPER: THE TIME TRAVELLER

- 28 April 2024

To witness the brilliance of perhaps the greatest living chanteuse in the world in the...