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Mixed messages lost in the medium: Foccroulle's Cassandra

Katarina Bradić (Cassandra) © Karl Forster
Foccroulle’s limited score imitates environmental catastrophe while Jocelyn’s libretto tries – unevenly – to understand why we might ignore it.

L’enfer sur la scène de Garnier : Lear de Reimann selon Bieito

Dans cette reprise d'une production créée en 2016, Bo Skovhus est magistral dans le rôle-titre. L'œuvre s'avère une nouvelle fois un des moments forts de la programmation de l’Opéra de Paris.

Anchors askew in Prague

Invigorating in the pit, Britten’s Billy Budd never gets its sea legs on the National Theatre stage.

A very fine Rakes Progress at the EIF

A successful concert hall Rake's Progress at the Edinburgh International Festival with an impressively strong cast of singers, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Royal Conservatoire Voices under Sir Andrew Davis.

All at sea in Berlin: Billy Budd at the Deutsche Oper

Deutsche Oper Berlin’s Billy Budd, although musically satisfying, suffers through an ambiguously set production. 

Sir John Eliot Gardiner at 70 with the LSO and Stravinsky

There’s something quite strongly “neoclassical” about the whole historically-informed performance movement. Someone like Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who has championed the use of detailed historical knowledge of performance practice and instruments, has never actually been attempting to transport us all back to the 18th century. That would be futile, obviously.