Published in the Financial Times on June 11 2014 Some pianists rush on stage with gladiatorial determination. Evgeny Kissin is not one of them. To read more, click here Continue reading
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Zinnias, Les Nuits de Fourviere, Lyon – review
Published in the Financial Times on June 6 2014 The oddest moment was when the spectators picked up their seat cushions and hurled them at the stage – woe betide anyone who failed to duck. To read more, click here Continue reading
Opera Days Rotterdam, Netherlands – review
Published in the Financial Times on May 26 2014 In a dimly lit room strewn with underwear, he lies back on his bed, silently gazing at her. To read more, click here Continue reading
Nikolaj Znaider/LSO, Barbican, London – review
Published in the Financial Times on May 4 2014 By now, several violinists have turned their hand to conducting – think of Maxim Vengerov; Leonidas Kavakos; Pinchas Zukerman; Itzhak Perlman. To read more, click here Continue reading
Duparc’s Melodies, Wigmore Hall, London – review
Published in the Financial Times on April 24 2014 They could have been singing only for each other. To read more, click here Continue reading
CPE Bach’s St John Passion, Cadogan Hall, London – review
Published in the Financial Times on April 20 2014 It all seemed very predictable. To read more, click here Continue reading
Interview with Leonidas Kavakos
Published in the Financial Times on May 16th 2014 We pause as Leonidas Kavakos’s phone beeps again. It is a hectic period in the Greek violinist’s career, and not only because of his fiddle-playing commitments. To read more, click here Continue reading
Docu-opera: when a life becomes a libretto
Published in the Financial Times on May 2 2014 The life of Alan Turing – mathematician and computer pioneer – reads like a work of fiction. To read more, click here Continue reading
Review of The Crackle at Linbury Studio Theatre
Published in the Financial Times on April 7 2014. We were instructed to leave our mobiles switched on. To read more, click here . Continue reading
Review of La Fille du Regiment, Royal Opera House
Published in the Financial Times on March 7 2014 How seriously can we take Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment? According to one of its first critics, the composer Hector Berlioz, not particularly. But not being serious is a very serious business. And one which comes to the fore in Laurent Pelly’s revived staging. To read more, click … Continue reading
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