I'll think of something later

The new season is upon us - at the Royal Opera, it's kicked off  with two revivals of very flawed productions which may yield good sing...

Was there ever a more perfect array of expressions to match the music than those of the wondrous Canadian? The shaping and body movement...

That's Nikita, tenor Nicky Spence's character in Krzysztof Warlikowski's burningly intense production of Janáček's From ...

'Ah! I breathe at last!...I thought for a moment that I was going to be ill in those enormous vaults.' Following Pelléas's c...

Probably all the interesting ones are bound to be off-piste, and the smaller labels have all the best tunes now. The disclaimer is that ...

That's actually a leap over the beltane bonfire on midsummer night, a Johannissprung , rather than a celebration of the day itself,...

Until I worked on the programme notes for a very curious concert a month ago at St John’s Smith Square which I’d been asked to talk ...

...for these two, Nina Stemme and Donald Runnicles (which also means the Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra), in a shatteringly great Proms ...