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Evelyn Lear

4320 days ago
Guardian MusicGlamorous soprano who made her name playing opera's neurotic modern heroinesBlessed with the looks of Elizabeth Taylor and a voice like Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's, the American soprano Evelyn Lear, who has died aged 86, had a good deal going for her. No... more info

Proms 2012: my opera highlights

4323 days ago
Guardian MusicOpera's a major strand of this year's Proms festival. Here's some of my highlightsI must declare a soupçon of an interest here: I will be a little involved in the wee festival that starts tonight and will be a classical music soundtrack to the summe... more info

Leopold String Trio/Osborne – review

4325 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonFirst the Florestans. Now the Leopolds. Lady Bracknell would surely have had something incisive to say about the demise last year of Britain's leading piano trio and, now, of our premier practitioners of the less extensive string ... more info

Uri Caine Trio – review

4326 days ago
Guardian MusicRonnie Scott's, LondonIt may be the profession he states on his tax returns, but it comes as something of a surprise to discover that Uri Caine is a rather good jazz pianist. Most of his albums cast him as musical director for some wonderful but slig... more info

West Side Story – review

4330 days ago
Guardian MusicSage, GatesheadThe Sage has a remarkable theatrical record considering it isn't even a theatre. The Northern Sinfonia's semi-staged cycle of Mozart–Da Ponte operas was impressive; the premiere of Tod Machover's Skellig marked a first venture int... more info

SCO Members/Llyr Williams – review

4333 days ago
Guardian MusicVarious venues, East Neuk of FifeThe Scottish Chamber Orchestra has been de facto house band at East Neuk since the get-go – the festival first grew out of a summer concert series given by the orchestra around the bucolic south-east of Fife. And t... more info

Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review

4336 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Opera House, London; Glyndebourne, east Sussex; Royal Festival Hall, LondonMen and supermen, aristocratic women and suicidal Trojan Wags, ancient Carthage, modern Venezuela, a pre-Columbian tropical jungle and a groovy 1960s-style conga: last w... more info

Le Nozze di Figaro – review

4338 days ago
Guardian MusicGlyndebourneLe Nozze di Figaro may be Glyndebourne's signature work, but it is 12 years since the last new production of Mozart's social satire was unveiled there. That version, which closed a Da Ponte trilogy by departing director of productions Gra... more info

Sue Gilmore: Summer classical music festivals abound in Bay Area

4340 days ago
Mercury News, CaliforniaCarmel Bach Festival, Music@Menlo, Midsummer Mozart, Festival del Sol boast exciting lineups. more info

Glyndebourne and Figaro: a perfect match

4344 days ago
Guardian MusicThe son of the festival's founder and Glyndebourne's first Susanna looks forward to a new production of Mozart's great comic operaThe Marriage of Figaro kicked off Glyndebourne's first festival in 1934; 60 years later to the day – 28 May 1994 – i... more info

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