Reviews

THE DA VINCI CODE

- 16 March 2022

There’s an old saying that familiarity breeds contempt… but not in this case. This super...

Madama Butterfly: Ellen Kent and The Ukrainian National Municipal Opera Kyiv

- 10 March 2022

What an extraordinary evening. Madama Butterfly is always an emotive work, the story of a...

BPO – Silent Classics with Neil Brand (presenter & composer), David Gray (piano), Joanna MacGregor (conductor)

- 7 March 2022

This was very different from the usual Sunday afternoon concert. It started with a chat...

PAY THE PIPER

- 26 February 2022

Glyndebourne is without doubt one of the world’s greatest opera houses, internationally acclaimed not only...

Footloose

- 22 February 2022

A standing ovation, the audience on its feet, clapping and singing along. At the final...

BPO – The European Connection – Junyan Chen (piano), Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

- 14 February 2022

This programme was full of the promise of Spring. Mendelssohn, the perfect feel-good composer, countered...

Round the Horne

- 1 February 2022

What could be more comforting on a cold winter’s evening than a huge chunk of...

Fatal Attraction

- 23 January 2022

In these days of chattering, sweetie wrapper rustling and phone fiddling audiences I seldom get...

Circolombia: Acelere

- 13 January 2022

The re-invention of circus and growth of circus arts has provided recent years with some...

BPO – New Year’s Eve Viennese Classics – Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Stephen Bell (conductor)

- 1 January 2022

Stephen Bell is a flawless showman. He gave the audience all the entertainment they came...

BREMF – BREMF@Christmas – BREMF Choirs, Andrew Robinson, Deborah Roberts & John Hancorn (conductors)

- 20 December 2021

An austere 14th century plainchant carol, ‘Resonet in laudibus’ (Let praises resound) set the scene...

Resound & Rebelles: Rebooted

- 18 December 2021

Like all Brighton and Hove’s choirs these two fine examples have suffered in the claws...