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NYMAN The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

Michael Nyman’s 1986 opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is, like other minimalist stage works, a...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2017

Regula Mühlemann: Mozart Arias

For the near future Regula Mühlemann’s diary looks to be dominated by Bach and Mozart. The forthcoming concert performances of...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2017

KRENEK Orpheus und Eurydice

Can the Orpheus and Eurydice legend be dramatised without lyricism? Nowadays, in this pluralistic era where no single aesthetic reigns,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2017

Filippo Mineccia: The Jommelli Album

The innovations of Niccolò Jommelli (1714 74) transformed mid-18th-century Italian opera just as much as Gluck’s slightly later so-called reforms,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017

GLASS Einstein on the Beach

Premiered in Avignon in August 1976, then toured across six European countries for two months before selling out New York’s...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017

Lawrence Brownlee: Allegro io son

'Simple but not unintelligent’ is how tenor Lawrence Brownlee describes his L’elisir d’amore character Nemorino, which summarises his approach to...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2017

CHISHOLM Simoon

Composer, pianist, conductor, concert promoter and educator Erik Chisholm never had the attention he deserved, not at home in Scotland...

Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2017

BERG Lulu

Far from the monstrous doll figure of Lulus past and present, Marlis Petersen gave the Met audience a Lulu they...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017

Mena: Under the Shadow

The test of a good crossover record is surely a simple one: does its fusion of genres amplify both of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2017

Anne Sofie von Otter: So Many Thanks

This mix of songs by pop/jazz composers who have worked with the classics, and vice versa, goes further than mere...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2017

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