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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
Friday, 4 October 2019
Knickers in Philadelphia were missing. AWOL. Not a shred. Potential disaster. In Sergei Prokofiev’s 1918 opera, The Love for Three Oranges, …
Continue reading "No libretto is safe from politically correct buffoons"
By Gerald Malone
Sunday, 29 September 2019
A defining Gala performance of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess kicked off New York Metropolitan Opera Company’s Season at the …
Continue reading "George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Met – a defining performance"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 20 September 2019
Hate pushy kids? Same here. It’s Tuesday evening. I’m heading to a concert in Soho, Manhattan. My phone chirrups a …
Continue reading "Greta Thunberg? Not a patch on child prodigy Alma Deutscher"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 13 September 2019
“Glimmerglass”. The name of the opera festival held annually in Otsego county, upstate New York, near Cooperstown, sounds a siren …
Continue reading "Feeling blue at Glimmerglass opera festival"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 16 August 2019
Until I visited the National Portrait Gallery’s “Cindy Sherman” exhibition – it runs until 15th September – I had been …
Continue reading "Review – Cindy Sherman at the National Portrait Gallery"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 2 August 2019
I am dozing on a sun lounger; under a Carob tree; in the Algarve; overlooking the Ria Formosa Natural Park …
Continue reading "Review – Mozart’s abandoned opera L’Oca del Cairo"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 5 July 2019
This is about a Carnegie Hall concert featuring Christopher Tin, the 43-year-old Californian, British educated composer with a Grammy award …
Continue reading "Christopher Tin – so much more than a crossover composer"
By Gerald Malone
Friday, 21 June 2019
David Ross, the mobile mogul who built his Carphone Warehouse empire in the “loadsamoney” era of the nineties, has revealed …
Continue reading "Nevill Holt Opera – a glimpse of an era past"
By Gerald Malone
