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Don Giovanni the seedy rapist - a modern step too far?

5112 days ago
The TelegraphA new version of Don Giovanni, Mozart's 18th-century opera about the legendary Lothario, has raised questions over whether the boundaries of taste are being pushed too far in the traditionally genteel art form. more info

The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera, by Daniel Snowman – review

5113 days ago
Guardian MusicBy Vera RuleI've always wanted those learned, luscious Covent Garden programme essays to cover the social aspect of opera (who performed what for whom when, and for what, usually non-musical, reasons), and Snowman's book supplies the want, very well.... more info

Die Entführung aus dem Serail – review

5113 days ago
Guardian MusicQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonMozart's beautiful, troubling comedy about the clash of values between Enlightenment Europe and Ottoman Turkey doesn't lend itself easily to concert performance. Its mix of speech and song is tricky to bring off even on s... more info

Hélène Grimaud – classical review

5114 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonThe programme for Hélène Grimaud's recital was identical to that of Resonances, her latest CD – a typically quirky compendium of works broadly linked to the idea of Austria-Hungary, and assembled so we notice the cross-... more info

RLPO/Wigglesworth – review

5116 days ago
Guardian MusicPhilharmonic Hall, LiverpoolWhen Ryan Wigglesworth had his earliest professional composition performed at the age of 12, he was so shy he didn't attend the concert. Though still only 30, he is now comfortable enough to appear as conductor, composer a... more info

Top players fall silent as Detroit Symphony Orchestra fights for survival

5120 days ago
Guardian MusicMusicians' strike over pay cut drags on as fortunes of Detroit's world-class ensemble mirror city's industrial declineTomorrow night Orchestra Hall, home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, should be resonating with its famously spectacular acoustics ... more info

Mozarteumorchester Salzburg/Bolton – review

5121 days ago
Guardian MusicSt David's Hall, CardiffThe 50th anniversary of Mozart's death in 1841 saw his widow, Constanze, help found the Salzburg orchestra, which in 1908 took the Mozarteum name it still proudly bears today. This direct link with Wolfgang Amadeus is both cal... more info

Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 3 & 5; Sinfonia Concertante K364

5121 days ago
Guardian MusicTognetti/Moore/Australian CO (BIS)Just a few bars of the neatly sprung opening tutti of Mozart's G major violin concerto K216 are enough to confirm that the tremendous energy and sense of musical purpose that are so characteristic of the Australian C... more info

Emerson Quartet – review

5125 days ago
Guardian MusicWigmore Hall, LondonWith a lineup unchanged for 30 years, the Emersons are close to becoming the grand old men of the string quartet scene – not that that is something you sense they would particularly wish for. They go to greater lengths than most... more info

Bath Mozartfest – review

5125 days ago
Guardian MusicVarious venues, BathNominally dedicated to the music of Mozart, Bath's November festival – now in its 20th year – also explores how the composer's genius came to be. On the basis that without Monteverdi there might not have been Mozart opera, Bat... more info

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