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Don Giovanni – review

5157 days ago
Guardian MusicGlyndebourneGlyndebourne on Tour has a tendency to get right what the main festival sometimes gets wrong. Such, certainly, would seem to be the case with Jonathan Kent's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. No one cared for it much this summer, when ... more info

Don Giovanni | Opera review

5159 days ago
Guardian MusicUsher Hall, EdinburghStripping the sets and costumes from opera doesn't have to mean stripping the drama, and baritone Florian Boesch, plain-clothed and propped against a music stand, proved exactly why Don Giovanni works in concert. This opera is a... more info

The Royal Opera on tour in Japan

5169 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Royal Opera House company hasn't performed in Japan for nearly 20 years. Nicholas Wroe accompanied it on a return visit and found the performers ready to reach out to the worldOn one level the Royal Opera's recent tour of Japan was, as a manager ... more info

The Duenna's 230-year elopement

5171 days ago
Guardian MusicByron called it 'the best opera ever'. So why hasn't The Duenna been staged for 230 years?The early life of 18th-century playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan sounds like the stuff of opera. As a penniless young man, he eloped to France with Elizabeth... more info

The Magic Flute | Opera review

5171 days ago
Guardian MusicMillennium Centre, CardiffWelsh National Opera's surrealist take on Mozart's last opera, first seen in 2005 and now being revived for the second time, has proved remarkably appealing. Performed in English, the singspiel element of spoken dialogue is ... more info

Monteverdi's Flying Circus | Opera review

5172 days ago
Guardian MusicBridge House, WarwickOf all the great composers, Monteverdi is perhaps the most elusive. There's no popular caricature of the man, as there is of Bach, Mozart or Beethoven. That is part of the justification for this production, woven around the compo... more info

László Polgár obituary

5172 days ago
Guardian MusicHungarian bass best known for Duke BluebeardThe Hungarian bass László Polgár, notable for his outstanding interpretation of the saturnine antihero in Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, has died unexpectedly at the age of 63. From the time of... more info

VIDEO/DVD: Watch Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Rearrange Beethoven w/ a 50 Piece Orchestra

5172 days ago
All About JazzAfter years of labor, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's reinterpretations of Beethoven's 3rd and 6th Symphonies premiered in June as a project entitled "Ludwig." The project, which rearranged Beethoven's 3rd and 6th symphonies, was premiered alongside a 50 p... more info

Bizet: Symphony in C, Jeux d'enfants, Roma; Orchestre de Paris/Järvi | CD review

5175 days ago
Guardian Music(Virgin Classics)When I asked a conductor why Bizet's teenage Symphony in C was so rarely played, he said: "Because it's so fucking difficult!" It needs perfect athleticism and agility, here provided in abundance by the Orchestre de Paris under its n... more info

The Daily WTF: Creative Meats?

5176 days ago
Big Apple Music SceneCreative Meats? Interesting name, but we've always kinda preferred our beef to be left-brained. Makes it much easier to eliminate the possibility we've just squirted mustard on the Mozart of cows or the bovine Virginia Woolf. (Virginia Moof is her na... more info

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