May 21, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
Thursday, May 19, 2022 Westminster Abbey, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Monteverdi’s Vespers have become indelibly associated with Venice (the theme of this year’s London Festival of Baroque Music) on account of the composer’s long association with the...
May 18, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Friday, May 13, 2022Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York City Guest Reviewer, Susan Stempleski Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn’s operatic adaptation of Hamlet, which premiered at the 2017 Glyndebourne Festival, has arrived at the Met, and their daring...
May 18, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Monday, May 16, 2022 Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Imeneo was Handel’s penultimate opera, reaching the stage in 1740, just one year before he composed Messiah. But even as his fortunes as a composer of opera...
May 16, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Photo, Barbican/Mark Allan Sunday, May 15, 2022 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed The last time I heard Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra was in this venue in November 2019, just a few weeks before the pandemic got a grip. Then the...
May 15, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
Saturday, May 14, 2022 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed This was Khatia Buniatishvili’s rescheduled Barbican recital after she cancelled last October. She also radically changed her programme, offering a Saturday-night-is-music-night medley of familiar...
May 14, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
Photo, BBC/Mark Allan Friday, May 13, 2022 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed This concert from Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBCSO was a bit of a mixed bag, ranging from worthy-but-dull to stupendous. And it began very beguilingly with Wigglesworth peering...