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Olivia Bell

Olivia has recently graduated as Senior choral Scholar from Queens' College, Cambridge, where she read English and became Culture Editor at the Tab. A freelance soprano, she currently works as a content editor at the Telegraph.

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A mortal nothingness: Verdi's Requiem at Westminster Cathedral

Por Olivia Bell, 18 septiembre 2018

This concert was inevitably the sum of far more than its parts, and not for nothing are the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantiquem, regarded as among the best in the world

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20 sep 2018

A mortal nothingness: Verdi's Requiem at Westminster Cathedral

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

Ax/Kavakos/Ma: An all-star afternoon of Brahms at the Barbican

Por Olivia Bell, 09 septiembre 2018

All three of these musicians are virtuosic soloists in their own right, but here they became far more than the sum of their parts – graceful, poised, and sensitive.

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Ax/Kavakos/Ma: An all-star afternoon of Brahms

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

Prom 6: Love laid bare in a passionate Turangalîla from Oramo and the BBCSO

Por Olivia Bell, 18 julio 2018

Revelling in the luscious orchestrations and sumptuous melodies, it was a rare treat to bask in such obvious delight from both conductor and orchestra.

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Prom 6: Love laid bare in a passionate Turangalîla

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

Prom 3: An inflated Prom to celebrate BBC Young Musicians

Por Olivia Bell, 15 julio 2018

With a smaller programme and a humbler premise, the stars of the show – those young, immensely talented performers – could have shone even brighter

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Prom 3: An inflated Prom to celebrate BBC Young Musicians

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

O/MODƏRNT at Wigmore Hall: A descent into melodrama

Por Olivia Bell, 07 abril 2018

Conceptually, the programme of descending and rising fourths offered a real treat: in practice, the musicians' skill was in danger of being lost as they attempted to recover from their opening gimmickry.

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O/MODƏRNT at Wigmore Hall: A descent into melodrama

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

Hakhnazaryan at Wigmore Hall: a riotous jig with a touch of class

Por Olivia Bell, 02 abril 2018

Hakhnazaryan’s programme was rich with meaty music.

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Hakhnazaryan at Wigmore: a riotous jig with a touch of class

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

Static but worth the slog: ETO's two-part Giulio Cesare

Por Olivia Bell, 07 octubre 2017

Conway's decision to render Handel's epic in its entirety was let down by a static staging and unnecessary repeats that masked the hidden gem-like arias.

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Static but worth the slog: ETO's Giulio Cesare

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

A Vespers on wilted wings: the AAM tackle Monteverdi

Por Olivia Bell, 23 junio 2017

Sublime orchestral playing and stellar soloists don't quite make up for a lacklustre performance by the Academy's choir in Monteverdi's moving work

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AAM tackle Monteverdi

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

A moving tribute in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird

Por Olivia Bell, 09 junio 2017

Lawrence Brownlee gives a compelling performance that truly does the groundbreaking saxophonist justice.

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A moving tribute in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

An emotional dedication: Duruflé & Fauré Requiems at the Royal Festival Hall

Por Olivia Bell, 04 junio 2017

Despite being a little rough and ready at times, the Rodolfus Choir and superb Philharmonia captured a moving sense of stillness in these two popular works

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An emotional dedication: Duruflé & Fauré Requiems at the Royal Festival Hall

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

An operatic big hitter: Juan Diego Flórez at the Royal Albert Hall

Por Olivia Bell, 02 junio 2017

This was less a concert of two halves than one of two tenors: able to dramatise the music of Puccini and Verdi far more effectively than his earlier Mozart, Flórez came alive.

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An operatic big hitter: Juan Diego Flórez

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

A poised and pretty outing of a prodigy's exercises

Por Olivia Bell, 16 mayo 2017

Mozart's “pasticcio concertos”, composed at the remarkable age of 11, may lack integral vibrancy and brilliance, but are brought to life by an exuberant Bezuidenhout

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A poised and pretty outing of a prodigy's exercises

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

Andreas Scholl at the Barbican: intimate devotion to a lamenting mother

Por Olivia Bell, 14 marzo 2017

Joined by the exquisitely subtle Accademia Bizantina led by Alessandro Tampieri, Scholl brought little-known but no less great devotions to the Virgin Mary to life with impetus and intimacy.

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Intimate devotion to a lamenting mother

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

Petticoated pirate romp: The Pirates of Penzance at ENO

Por Olivia Bell, 09 febrero 2017

There’s nothing new or inventive about Leigh’s revived production, which in itself is not a crime, but neither is there an abundance of energy; it's all a bit nice.

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Petticoated pirate romp at ENO

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

Polished, but no cracker: Les Arts Florissants perform Handel’s Messiah

Por Olivia Bell, 19 diciembre 2016

Polished, deft and attentive, Les Arts Florissants deliver in concert the same slickness that we have come to expect from their impressive array of recordings, but lack vital energy.

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Polished, but no cracker

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

La Calisto: Sublime singing saves Cavalli’s work from farce

Por Olivia Bell, 28 noviembre 2016

Despite the beautiful sensitivity of La Nuova Musica, coupled with some truly sublime singing, the silliness of Cavalli’s opera is sometimes overplayed in this semi-staged production; less is, sometimes, more.

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La Calisto: Sublime singing

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

The Fair Maid of the Mill: Toby Spence’s lovelorn miller embodies new translation

Por Olivia Bell, 23 octubre 2016

Purists look away. Translating Müller’s poetry from its sublime German to work well in English was always going to be a difficult task, but Spence’s infectious enthusiasm carried it off.

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Toby Spence’s lovelorn miller embodies new translation

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

Xerxes: ETO’s quirky revival sparkles vocally but is not all plane sailing

Por Olivia Bell, 08 octubre 2016

Updating 470BC Abydos to a 1940s RAF base complete with tin hangar and outdoor privy seemed at times more Dad’s Army than a particularly cohesive tale of war and love.

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Xerxes: quirky revival sparkles vocally

Por Olivia Bell