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Saturday, 7 December 2019
Philip Glass, the minimalist American composer, fills opera houses with the same facility as his British ritualistic counterpart, Sir Harrison …
Continue reading "Lavish production distracts from Philip Glass’s painfully dull score"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 30 November 2019
Four-foot gobbets of orange fire belched into the Glasgow twilight. Walk south from Buchanan Street subway station, to St. George’s …
Continue reading "Maxim Emelyanychev’s appointment to the SCO is a masterstroke"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 23 November 2019
I tried. Honestly, I really made an effort. I read the synopsis twice before the performance at London’s Coliseum. I …
Continue reading "Harrison Birtwhistle’s The Mask of Orpheus is self-congratulatory drivel"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 16 November 2019
Marie-Henri Beyle, the French author who lived from 1783 to 1842, was a “romantic realist”. So, clearly of an oxymoronic …
Continue reading "Essay – How Stendhal’s Charterhouse of Parma revolutionised the novel"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 9 November 2019
Lisbon’s Teatro Nacional de Säo Carlos, the country’s foremost opera house, is an understated gem – on my bucket list …
Continue reading "Don’t look back in anger"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 2 November 2019
Friday, 25th October, was World Opera Day, a collaboration among Opera America, Opera Europa and Opera Latinoamérica. Festivities at the …
Continue reading "Opera enthusiasts should take a trip to Wexford"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 26 October 2019
“Is this a handbag that I see before me”? Excellent question, Thane of Glamis. You can get around to the …
Continue reading "Verdi’s Macbeth at the Met – post-war Scotland setting grates"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 19 October 2019
Hamlet isn’t brooding on the battlements in Denmark. He’s in the Hague; starring in a new production from Oper2Day, the …
Continue reading "Hamlet in the Hague makes the grade"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 12 October 2019
The key to Jules Massenet’s opera Manon – first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, in 1884 – is the portrayal …
Continue reading "Brilliant casting unlocks the plot of Massenet’s Manon at the Met"
By Gerald Malone
