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Book Review – Franco Corelli Prince of Tenors
Franco Corelli Prince of Tenors René Seghers [with a foreward by Marco Corelli] Published in the United States by Amadeus Books ISBN 978-1-57647-163-6 $34.95 This is the second biography of...
Two Levels of Love: Deborah Voigt on Ariadne auf Naxos [Royal Opera 16 June-1 July]
Mansel Stimpson talks to the American soprano as she comes to The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for one of her most famous roles… Echoing the title of Greta Garbo’s...
Honesty Is The Only Policy: Carlos Wagner on directing Thomas Adès’s opera Powder Her Face [11-22 June 2008]
In London to direct Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face in Covent Garden’s Linbury Studio Theatre, Carlos Wagner talks to Mansel Stimpson… Carlos Wagner is back in London – at the...
Preview – Strictly Gershwin [13-22 June 2008]
English National Ballet stages a Gershwin dance extravaganza at the Royal Albert Hall with international ballet guests, and Broadway legend Barbara Cook… The summer dance season this year will be...
Verdi Writ Large: Ferruccio Furlanetto and Philip II [Verdi’s Don Carlo: The Royal Opera 6 June-3 July 2008]
Mansel Stimpson talks to the Italian bass who crowns his recent London appearances with the role of Philip II in Verdi’s epic opera… For many an opera-singer's life seems to...
Preview – Paul Badura-Skoda at Wigmore Hall [Sunday 1 June 2008]
Jill Crossland, a pupil of Paul Badura-Skoda, introduces the Austrian pianist and pedagogue's forthcoming London concert, his first solo recital in London for twenty years… What a formidable programme! Paul...
Feature Concert Review – Cathcart Spring Proms
The Cathcart Spring Proms: the thirteenth annual concert in memory of Dr George Cathcart and in aid of World Wide Fund for Nature Music by Arne, Berlioz, Beethoven, Stanley Myers,...
Semper Fidelis: Micaela Carosi and Tosca
Mansel Stimpson talks to the Italian soprano who is making her Covent Garden debut playing Puccini’s Tosca… While still a child Micaela Carosi recognised how lucky she was to have...
LSO Discovery Young Composers Open Workshop
Helen Grime Virga Luke Bedford Outblaze the Sky Jason Yarde Rude Awakening! Martin Suckling The Moon, the Moon! Joe Duddell Azalea Fragments London Symphony Orchestra François-Xavier Roth With Colin Matthews...
Dischord at the Symphony
"The average noise level in the orchestra during the piece was 97.4 decibels – a violation of new European noise-at-work limit" ... So ran a headline in the New York...
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