Cilea’s Radiant L’arlesiana Ardently Performed in the Beautiful Setting of Holland Park
21/07/2019
Cilea, L’arlesiana: Soloists, Chorus of Opera Holland Park, City of London Sinfonia / Dane Lam (conductor). Opera Holland Park, London, 20.7.2019. (CC)
Yvonne Howard as Rosa Mamai (c) Ali Wright
Longborough’s Female-Centric Don Giovanni
13/07/2019
Longborough Festival Opera [3] – Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera / Thomas Blunt (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 11.7.2019. (CP)
Ivan Ludlow (Don Giovanni) & Llio Evans (Zerlina) © Matthew Williams Ellis
Garsington’s Admirable Elucidation of Psychologically and Emotionally Dark The Turn of the Screw
13/07/2019
Garsington Opera 2019 [3] – Britten, The Turn of Screw: Soloists, Garsington Opera Orchestra / Richard Farnes (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 7.7.2018. (CR)
Leo Jemison (Miles) Elen Willmer (Flora) Ed Lyon (Peter Quint) & Katherine Broderick (Miss Jessel)<br/>(c) Johan Persson
A Spellbinding and Deeply Satisfying Trip to the World of Monteverdi’s Orfeo
10/07/2019
Monteverdi, L’Orfeo: Soloists, I Fagiolini (director: Robert Hollingworth) with Music and Theatre for All, Jerwood Hall (LSO St Luke’s), London, 7.7.2019. (AK)
I Fagiolini’s L’Orfeo (c) Ben Pugh
Laurent Pelly’s Production of La fille du regiment Remains a Triumph
10/07/2019
Donizetti, La fille du regiment: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Evelino Pidò (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 8.7.2019. (CC)
Javier Camarena (Tonio) and Sabine Devieilhe (Marie) (c) Tristram Kenton
Richard Egarr Leads a Very Involving Concert Performance of Le nozze di Figaro
08/07/2019
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Grange Festival Chorus, Academy of Ancient Music / Richard Egarr (conductor & fortepiano), Barbican Hall, London. 4.7.2019. (AK)
Richard Egarr (c) Marco Borggreve
An Engaging Production of Noye’s Fludde Offers Considerably More Than the Sum of its Parts
05/07/2019
Britten, Noye’s Fludde: Soloists, Children from Brampton Primary School and Churchfields Junior School, Community Choir, Orchestra of the English National Opera and other musicians / Martin Fitzpatrick (conductor). Theatre Royal Stratford East, London, 3.7.2019. (MB)
Noye’s Fludde (c) Marc Brenner
Chelsea Opera Group’s Revelatory Presentation of Rubinstein’s The Demon
02/07/2019
Anton Rubinstein, The Demon: Soloists, Chelsea Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Oliver Zeffman (conductor). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 30.6.2019. (CC)
Andrei Kymach (c) Alexander Andryushchenko
Latest Classical Music News and Reviews
- NPR
- NY Times
- BBC
- Independent News
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, a far-reaching playlist of off-the-beat [...]
A recent Pop Culture Happy Hour trip to New York took the team to see Rigoletto at the Metropolitan [...]
Menzi Mngoma is hoping that the exposure will help him further his dream of becoming an internationa [...]
Rider University had planned to sell Westminster Choir College to the China-based Kaiwen Education, [...]
Augustin Hadelich dazzles in an album of odd bedfellows, which pairs Johannes Brahms' romantic [...]
With orchestras rare in the early 19th century, today’s classics spread in quartet arrangements, a n [...]
“The Lion King” remake, the Apollo 11 anniversary and more: Here’s your guide to the weekend in cult [...]
The acclaimed Brooklyn Youth Chorus collaborates with cutting-edge composers and has become a resour [...]
For decades he played a 1741 instrument. Then he sold it and gave $1.5 million of the proceeds to hi [...]
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead. [...]
This joyous set of Beethoven's sonatas takes its place among the very best. [...]
In its own way, the Seven Words of Christ is just as sublime as the Stabat Mater. [...]
This sensitive, dynamic recording is a joy, and may even constitute a revelation. [...]
The pair exhibits a refined style on these illuminating performances. [...]
A deeply affecting experience that ought to win the opera many new admirers. [...]
The combined forces of the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Chorus come through triumphantly [...]
