Reviews

Hildegard Transfigured

BREMF: Hildegard Transfigured 2 – Voice Trio

- 21 October 2024

This concert had two elements, some sublime singing and a light show, which was disappointing...

IL TURCO IN ITALIA

- 21 October 2024

Rossini’s opera buffo is wittily transformed by Mariame Clément’s clever shifting of time, not once...

BREMF-LIVE

BREMF LIVE SHOWCASE – Lowe Ensemble, Triple Fipple, Nocturnalia Ensemble, Minerva Baroque

- 19 October 2024

BREMF LIVE! is the life blood of the Brighton Early Music Festival. This scheme for...

BREMF: Connections of Power – Cappella Pratensis, BREMF Consort of Voices

- 19 October 2024

The Brighton Early Music Festival has worked its magic again. It enticed an unexpectedly large...

DEAR EVAN HANSEN

- 16 October 2024

If audience reaction is anything to go by this touring production of the Broadway sensation...

BPO – Jess Gillam and Symphony of Sorrowful Songs – Jess Gillam (saxophone), Ruby Hughes (soprano), Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

- 14 October 2024

A risky bit of programming paid off big time! Finlandia, Sibelius’ heroic masterpiece will always...

La Traviata

- 14 October 2024

I often think that the down side of seeing opera can be that over the...

BREMF: The Forgotten Scarlatti – Armonico Consort

- 13 October 2024

What an excellent match for BREMF! Armonico Consort has an inspirational director; an accomplished choir,...

BREMF: Truly Madly Baroque – Red Priest

- 12 October 2024

This is how to start a Brighton Early Music Festival: popular performers, familiar as old...

REDLANDS

- 6 October 2024

The legendary party at Keith Richards’ baronial home in West Wittering is part of rock...

RE:INCARNATION

- 2 October 2024

Qudus Onkeku & The QDance Company Grounded in the rhythms and street sounds of Lagos...

HAIRSPRAY

- 1 October 2024

When John Waters originally created Hairspray as a film back in the late 1980s who...