Latest Features
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short description Royal Opera House Collections – Dame Joan Sutherland: A Tribute
short description The Show Must Go On: Ailyn Pérez and La traviata – The Royal Opera’s La traviata [25 November-20 December 2011]
short description iPad Revolutionizes the Classical Music Industry
short description The Players’ Theatre Club at 75 and Saving Wilton’s Music Hall [20 November & 4 December 2011]
short description Feature Review: The Metropolitan Opera – Siegfried [“The Met: Live in HD”]
short description Six years On: Celso Albelo and La sonnambula – The Royal Opera’s La sonnambula [2-18 November 2011]
short description Feature Review: The Sixth Annual Malcolm Arnold Festival [The Nine Symphonies]
short description Following Your Voice: Anja Kampe and The Flying Dutchman [The Royal Opera’s Der fliegende Holländer – 18 October-4 November 2011]
short description Feature Review: Tchaikovsky Symphony Cycle – Mariinsky Orchestra/Gergiev in New York
short description Feature Review: Speakers Corner LPs – Bach [Janos Starker] & Shostakovich [Sviatoslav Richter]
short description Feature Review – Exquisite Labyrinth: The Music of Pierre Boulez [30 September-2 October 2011]
short description Understanding Alfredo: James Valenti and La traviata [The Royal Opera’s La traviata, 3-22 October 2011]
short description The Belcea Quartet & Beethoven – An interview with Krzysztof Chorzelski: “The Grosse Fuge was meant to be a sort of nuclear explosion aimed at threatening the very idea of structure and gravity.”
short description Interview with Michelle Breedt – Weinberg’s The Passenger at ENO: “Having committed myself I did a tremendous amount of research. I watched a lot of film of the period, because not much is known of the function of the SS women.”
short description Feature Review – George Enescu Festival 2011 [Barenboim, Gergiev, Rozhdestvensky]
short description Feature Review – The Lahti Symphony Orchestra’s 12th International Sibelius Festival [Okko Kamu & Elina Vähälä]
short description Interview with Sarah Tynan – Adina in English National Opera’s The Elixir of Love, opens 15 September 2011 – “This piece is very sunny, it’s hopeful, funny and sweet, the girl gets the guy...”
short description A World Away – the New Queen’s Hall Orchestra [an article by John Boyden]
short description Composer’s Hat Trick: Alan Oke and Puccini’s Il trittico [The Royal Opera’s Il trittico (Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) – 12-27 September 2011]
short description A Chat with Marc-André Hamelin – At BBC Proms 2011 on 3 September & recording Busoni for Hyperion
 

 

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