Reviews

BPO – Great Baroque: Playing with Fire – Robert Howarth (harpsichord/conductor)

- 8 November 2021

What an amazing programme! A feast of Baroque favourites that showcased the talent and versatility...

The Cat and The Canary

- 2 November 2021

Last week I was feeling old watching a very new musical, but this week I...

Heathers

- 27 October 2021

I think I must be getting old, let me explain. Last night I really wanted...

The Rake’s Progress

- 26 October 2021

It seems incredible that this production of Igor Stravinsky’s opera with a libretto by W...

Simon Amstell: Spirit Hole

- 26 October 2021

Amstell’s presence on the stage is a strange blend of comfortable and distinctly uncomfortable. His...

BREMF – Myths & Legends of Classical Antiquity – Canzona

- 23 October 2021

This interesting programme of French Baroque Cantatas and chamber works was not well served by...

BREMF – Josquin & Fayrfax 500 – BREMF Consort of Voices (full version)

- 22 October 2021

Deborah Roberts, Artistic Director of the Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF), brought her elite choir...

I,Spie

BREMF – I, Spie – The Telling

- 21 October 2021

Soprano Clare Norburn has once again gathered The Telling, her troupe of fine musicians and...

Armistead Maupin

- 13 October 2021

The live celebrity interview is an odd thing, and often so odd that it doesn’t...

Don Pasquale

- 11 October 2021

Glyndebourne’s revival of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale is a delicious confection, from the very lush red...

Fidelio

- 11 October 2021

A new production at Glyndebourne is always an exciting proposition, always something to look forward...

Di and Viv and Rose

- 2 October 2021

Friendship, that most challenging or relationships in my view, finding the friend, balancing that relationship,...