Neue Kritikenmehr...
Enigmatic and deeply moving: rare Rubbra at the Three Choirs Festival
At Gloucester Cathedral, works by Cecilia McDowall and Edmund Rubbra, despite their indirectness and small scale, make an impact even stronger then Beethoven.
Aleko on the Arno: Bryn Terfel leads fine new GPO double bill
An unlikely pairing opens Grange Park Opera's season, the two works united by the dominant central character of each opera – Sir Bryn Terfel.
A brilliant barrack room ballad: Otello at Grange Park Opera
Gwyn Hughes Jones, Elizabeth Llewellyn and Sir Simon Keenlyside star in David Alden's setting of Otello in a militarised Cyprus.
Alexander Litvinenko: a thrilling – if imperfect – world premiere
Ivor Bolton and Kit Hesketh-Harvey deliver a brilliant political thriller and anti-Putin polemic – at least for its first half.
Romantic love blooms in the lost garden of West Horsley
Olena Tokar's assured coloratura made an immediate success of the waltz with her convincingly adolescent appearance, rhythmic verve and stylish phrasing.
Visceral Verdi via 1950s Hollywood at Grange Park Opera
Stylish, intelligent and visceral, with a magnetic central performance by Claire Rutter, Grange Park give us a powerful, tough La traviata updated to 1950s Hollywood.