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Saturday, 4 July 2020
At curtain up there is silence. Lines from Beckett’s Waiting for Godot flicker on a backstage screen. We are clearly being told …
Continue reading "Lost in the desert with Schönberg’s Moses und Aron"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 20 June 2020
It’s June. The sun is out – sometimes. Champagne should be bubbling over as the sweating, overdressed British stalk the …
Continue reading "Skating on thin ice at Garsington Opera"
By Gerald Malone
Monday, 15 June 2020
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Saturday, 30 May 2020
Franz Schreker? Neither had I. Heard of him, that is. Admit it. You hadn’t either. What? You’ve got a comprehensive …
Continue reading "Lost Classic – Franz Schreker’s Der Schmied von Gent"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Flamboyant opera rebel, Sir Peter Jonas, has died at the age of 73. As Director of English National Opera from …
Continue reading "Remembering Sir Peter Jonas – opera’s enfant terrible"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 8 May 2020
“Clap, damn you, clap”! Benjamin Britten, enraged, leaned out of his box at Covent Garden and railed at the lukewarm …
Continue reading "Music for a new Elizabethan age – Britten’s Gloriana"
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 25 April 2020
Jennifer Lucy Bate, celebrated organist and Olivier Messiaen’s most trusted interpreter of his complex oeuvres for the instrument, has died …
By Gerald Malone
Saturday, 18 April 2020
Much ado about Shakespeare – that just about sums up the Wexford Festival Opera 2020 programme. Huzzah! General Booking, that …
Continue reading "Shakespeare on crack at the Wexford Festival Opera this October"
By Gerald Malone
