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Michael White
Covent Garden's Queen of Spades: music on top form
never think that opera is so rarified an entertainment that it doesn’t deal with the realities of life. it does. and tchaikovsky’s queen of ...
While the National Youth Orchestra exists, there is still hope
one of the most depressing things on british television these days – apart from the new adaptation of les misérables , which is such a painf...
Where was the best singing over Christmas?
christmas is a time when people want to hear a decent choir, and it’s the time when decent choirs sweep by the coachload into london for the...
The secret music composed by medieval nuns
it’s an almost unbelievable statistic, but according to professor laurie stras, an academic at huddersfield university and noted authority o...
An opera for all the family
apart from lending his name to a tight-trousered pop star of the 1960s, the composer engelbert humperdink (german, 1854-1921) has one enduri...
Musical magic in Ludlow
anybody interested in english song will know the shropshire town of ludlow as the place where “lads in their hundreds ... come in for the fa...
The most startling gesture on an opera stage in years
benjamin britten’s war requiem was composed for the opening of the new coventry cathedral in 1963, as a choral work to be performed in conce...
How English choirs recovered from the Reformation - eventually
i saw eternity the other night by timothy day, allen lane, 416pp, £25/$30 in a few weeks’ time, on christmas eve, the famous festival of nin...
The Bath Mozartfest: radiant joy
it can often feel in music as though tragedy sets the agenda, valuing the dark and sad as more substantial than the bright and joyful. but t...
Behind the scenes at the world’s most celebrated Passion Play
Every ten years, half the population of the small town of Oberammergau appears in the spectacular production
Sir James MacMillan reveals the poignant power of an obscure war poet
All the Hills and Vales Along is a stunning evocation of one young soldier's experience of the battlefield
A rarely-seen Requiem performed with a vengeance
when stravinsky wrote his own sober if seductive mass setting, he stressed the importance of using emotionally cold music to ensure nothing ...
A fab Porgy and Bess – but it’s hardly opera
when george gershwin wrote porgy and bess, he believed himself to be writing an opera – and so by general acceptance he was, although its re...
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