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Garsington Opera’s The Bartered Bride gets a rather more muted revival

05/07/202301/07/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2023 [3] – Bedřich Smetana, The Bartered Bride: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra / Jac van Steen (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 30.6.2023. (CR)

Garsington Opera’s *The Bartered Bride* © Alice Pennefather

The cast of New Chamber Opera’s La Frascatana successfully highlight the opera’s levity and good spirits.

01/07/202301/07/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom New Chamber Opera – Paisiello, La Frascatana (The Girl from Frascati): Soloists, The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor). New College, Oxford, 28.6.2023. (CR)

Paisiello at the clavichord, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1791)

The strong cast brings the more consistent personality and character to Garsington’s pared down Mitridate

05/07/202305/06/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2023 [2] – Mozart, Mitridate, re di Ponto: Soloists, The English Concert / Clemens Schuldt (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 3.6.2023. (CR)

Iestyn Davies (Farnace) and Soraya Mafi (Ismene) © Julian Guidera

Garsington’s charming and fresh interpretation of Rossini’s well-loved Il barbiere di Siviglia

05/07/202301/06/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2023 [1] – Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus, The English Concert / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 31.5.2023. (CR)

Johannes Kammler (Figaro), Katie Bray (Rosina) and Andrew Stenson (Count Almaviva) © Clive Barda

Oxford hears deliberate Mendelssohn, robust Mozart and Argerich’s muscular Beethoven

01/04/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Mozart: Martha Argerich (piano), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor). Town Hall, Oxford, 31.3.2023. (CR)

András Schiff’s Oxford performance was consistently insightful and unflustered

05/06/202316/02/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven: András Schiff (piano). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 15.2.2023. (CR)

Oxford Philharmonic’s anniversary celebrations continue with Brahms, Bruckner and more

30/12/202221/11/2022 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Brahms, Mendelssohn, Jieun Lee and Bruckner: Jennifer Pike (violin), Lauren Fagan (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), David Junghoon Kim (tenor) Simon Shibambu (bass), Choirs of Merton and The Queen’s Colleges, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos and Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey (conductors). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 17.11.2022. (CR)

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra’s Bruckner Te Deum © Nicholas Posner

RVW’s An Oxford Elegy fittingly gets a 150th anniversary outing in the city of its public premiere

30/12/202217/11/2022 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Vaughan Williams and Ian Venables: Petroc Trelawny (narrator), Choir of Merton College, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia / Benjamin Nicholas (conductor). Merton College Chapel, Oxford 11.11.2022 (CR)

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