My review of Gluck's Alceste from the Chelsea Opera Group is here , on Music and Vision.

The problem with period performance is that we do not always have period voices to go with the period instrumental performances. In early mu...

Having worked through the score of the new opera two or three times, I am currently in the process of creating the piano reduction which is ...

My review of the new production of Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers at Covent Garden is here , on Music and Vision.

My review of Bach's St. John Passion from Il Fondamento and Paul Dombrecht is here , on MusicWeb International. Little to set it apart f...

On Friday we went to see the new production of Puccini’s Turandot at the London Coliseum. ENO’s first ever production of Puccini’s final ope...

My review of Guerrero's Battle Mass from Westminster Cathedral is here . Performances which are of a very high calibre and extremely se...

My review of the Opera Rara/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment concert performance of Donizetti's Maria di Rohan in the Vienna versi...

As part of their 30th anniversary celebrations, Les Arts Florissants presented a concert of Monteverdi's 6th Book of Madrigals. Instead...

I have long been familiar with the aria A soldier tired from Thomas Arne's opera Artxerxes because I, like many people I suspect, list...

My review of the Tallis Scholars disc of Flemish Polyphony (including the amazing 12-part Brumel Battle Mass ) is here , on MusicWeb Interna...

Having got to the end of my new opera/music theatre piece in draft form, and managed to do a fair amount of tidying up on it, I have sent co...

A friend brought to my attention a rather odd site, purportedly about how to make money, which seems to have a series of posts from my Blog ...

Tete-a-tete is an amazing opera company who, since their founding in 1997, have been mid-wife to a remarkably number of contemporary operas...

For her new album Renee Fleming has ventured into relatively new territory, a disc of arias from verismo operas. In operatic terms, verismo ...

My review of Sunday's performance of Handel's Susanna from William Christie and Les Arts Florissants is here on Music and Vision.

My review of ETO's production of Alcina is now on-line here , at Music and Vision.

On Tuesday we went to St. John's Smith Square for the Salomon Orchestra's concert. Conducted by Philip Ellis, they gave the first pu...

Two of my Choruses from Passion ( It was for love and If this were your final day on earth received their Polish premieres on 12th Septem...

A less alternative view, but one that remains relatively unexplored, is the relationship between Kurwenal and Tristan in Tristan and Isolde ...