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Triumphant Tavener opens the Edinburgh International Festival
John Tavener's epic, eight-hour all-night vigil opens the festival in monumental style, directed by Thomas Guthrie.
Green-eyed miracle: Salieri’s The School of Jealousy
Wet English summer weather may have driven Bampton's pacy revival of Salieri's wickedly funny La scuola de' gelosi indoors, but rain could not dampen the sheer fun ahead.
The National Health Service of the Renaissance
L’Ospedale sounds like it should be a newly written opera about the NHS, but actually, it's a 350 year old piece. It makes for an hour's delectable light operatic entertainment.
Beautiful but not quite brilliant from Bampton Classical Opera
A beautiful evening of rare and royal music by Gluck, in the year of his 300th anniversary, and even an even rarer setting of Orfeo by Bertoni: it was just a pity we couldn't follow all the words, as well as all the notes, at St John's Smith Square.
Bring on the Baroque: The Bristol Baroque Festival begins at St George's with Bach's St John Passion
I’ve had the great privilege and even greater joy over the last couple of months to have been totally immersed in Bach: I’ve been researching him, and particularly his Passions, since Christmas.