My review of Victoria's Missa O Quam Gloriosum from Il Convitto Armonico is here . A welcome touch of warmth and vibrancy of tone ... A...

Music and Vision has a review by Maria Nockin of all of Santa Fe's operas here , providing a different view point (and more pictures).

Whilst in Santa Fe, I interviewed Christine Brewer, who sang the title role in Gluck's Alceste at Santa Fe Opera this summer. The inter...

My review of Alceste from Santa Fe Opera, with Christine Brewer in the title role is here , on MusicWeb International/Seen and Heard.

We are currently in Santa Fe, attending the opera festival there. The opera house is a striking modern building housing some 2000 seats and ...

My review of Paul Moravec and Terry Teachout's new opera, The Letter , premiered at Santa Fe Opera, is here on MusicWeb/Seen and Heard.

My review of EMI's Handel set (Fireworks and Water music) is here . Fireworks apart, nothing that has not been done better elsewhere ......

A photo of Henry Lytton as Bunthorne (in Patience ) wearing a wig and costume which seems to have inspired that worn by Simon Butteriss in t...

Tuesday's performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience was billed as a semi-staging, directed by Martin Duncan. But what we got w...

Recent reviews have been covering the new production of Aida from the Bregenz Festival. Played on the floating stage in the lake, Graham V...

To the Albert Hall for the 2nd (evening) half of the BBC Proms piano teamwork day. My main complaint with the programming of this day is tha...

My review of Mendelssohn's arrangement of Handel's Israel in Egypt is here , on MusicWeb International. Utterly fascinating as a wi...

Anne Collins contralto voice was one of the striking voices of my early opera going in the 70's and 80's. I saw her in a number of r...

I have just finished reading John Lucas's new biography of Sir Thomas Beecham, Bart. It is highly illuminating in many ways, especially ...

To Antwerp for the weekend to sing with London Concord Singers . On Sunday evening we performed at St. Andrew's Church, on of the Monume...

I first started singing plainchant regularly around 15 years ago when I joined the Latin Mass choir at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church,...

On Tuesday we went to the Late Night Prom which featured Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir performing four of Bach's mote...

To the Cadogan Hall yesterday lunchtime for the second Proms Chamber Music event, a recital of French Song by Susan Graham and Malcolm Marti...

In the 1960's the Barber Institute in Birmingham created a series of staged performances of Handel's operas, under the Professor of ...

My review of The Fairy Queen from the Proms is here , on Music and Vision,