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Michael White
A flawed masterpiece of 18th-century satire
it isn’t only priests who struggle with hard questions about human suffering: 18th-century philosophers were exercised about the subject too...
Music: Knussen’s Fireworks light up the Proms
given how far in advance concert schedules get fixed, it’s good to know that things can sometimes happen on the spur of the moment – as they...
Music: A murder-mystery opera on ice skates
there are, i suppose, more spiritual ways to spend a sunday morning than strolling through the urban civility of cheltenham’s pittville park...
Music: Harry Potter set fails to rescue Debussy
for anyone who thinks of opera as a semaphore activity with sweeping gestures, heaving chests and high anxiety, debussy’s pelléas et mélisan...
Music: A Billy Budd that hits you like a bus
good music festivals start well but end amazingly, and aldeburgh – the best of music festivals – ended last week with something that amazed,...
Music: A mini La Scala in the depths of Surrey
of all the movers and shakers in british musical life there’s none so dynamic as the boss of grange park opera, wasfi kani, whose new countr...
Music: How Britten brought the Dream to life
if you don’t love countertenors (and some don’t) the opening weekend of the aldeburgh festival wasn’t for you – because it was a celebration...
Music: Gilbert & Sullivan are a monumental bore
deathless humour is a rarity. while jane austen, shakespeare and maybe chaucer can still make us laugh across the centuries, lesser masters ...
Music: Eschatological opera ends without a bang
describing the end of the world in music is no small deal. wagner took 16 hours spread over four nights when he tried in the ring cycle. jon...
Music: Epic Beethoven in a Borders village church
when you live in london, with the convenience of sophisticated halls and world-class concerts on tap, it’s maybe perverse to take successive...
Music: Where the Brighton Festival went wrong
the brighton festival was once a go-to place for classical music. now it’s not, having succumbed to populism and a policy of handing over ar...
Music: Dresden culture palace rises from the ashes
given how little money there is these days to keep serious music up and running, it’s remarkable that wherever you go in the world somebody’...
Music: Radical opera at a surreal dinner party
we’ve all known dinner parties that went on too long, but rarely with the consequences of the one in thomas adès’s new opera, the exterminat...
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