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Opera & Dance

Classical & Jazz

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Choral evensong; Ralph Allwood’s virtual choir; New...
15 May — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Michael White’s classical & jazz news
03 April — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Ministry of Sound Classical makes its Royal Albert Hall debut
14 February
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

Review: Revival of Bieito’s Carmen at the Coliseum
06 February — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Vocal winners at the Wigmore
27 December — By Michael White
From the Islington Tribune

Classical & Jazz

Vaughan Williams’ voyage of the soul
29 November — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Reason and passion in Britten’s ‘Death in Venice’
29 November — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

Michael White’s music news: Opera Settecento at St George’s Hanover Square
21 November — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Michael White’s music news: Hampstead Garden Opera’s La Boheme
01 November — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Hampstead Arts Festival: Elgar’s ‘Dream’ in a saintly setting
01 November — By Michael White
From the Islington Tribune

Classical & Jazz

Weber’s gothic horror with French style
01 November — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

A legendary Orpheus from Harrison Birtwistle
18 October — By Michael White

Opera & Dance

Director Kimberley Sykes talks about her RSC production of As You Like It
14 October

Classical & Jazz

ENO’s Orpheus and Eurydice – an opera for dance fans
12 October — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

London Song Festival is set to be a riot
11 October — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Michael White’s music news: Bloomsbury Festival; Gut Instinct; horn festival
11 October — By Michael White
From the Islington Tribune

Classical & Jazz

Weill parable for our times – The Silver Lake
03 October — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

Michael White’s music news: Agrippina at the Royal Opera House
03 October — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Contralto Jessica Dandy gives recital at Hampstead Parish Church
26 September — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Marie Stopes – a modern opera, yet still controversial
19 September — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Opera Loki brings Puccini’s Butterfly to Highgate
19 September — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Scoring a Century – a long-delayed London premiere
29 August — By Michael White
From the Islington Tribune

Opera & Dance

From Ragtime to Opera – a rare Scott Joplin performance
22 August — By Michael White
Page 2
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

Glyndebourne Magic comes to the Proms
22 August — By Michael White

Opera & Dance

Alfa Mist amazes at the Southbank Centre
12 August — By Tessa van Rens
From the Islington Tribune

Opera & Dance

Ensemble OrQuesta bring French baroque to Grimeborn
08 August — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Hampstead Garden Opera sing arias for summer
02 August — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Bolshoi Ballet on pointe at the Royal Opera House
02 August — By Michael White
From the Islington Tribune

Opera & Dance

Grimeborn: edgy opera, in your face
25 July — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Michael White’s music news: Matthias Goerner at Wigmore Hall
20 June — By Michael White
From the Islington Tribune

Opera & Dance

Allen’s Magic touch with Mozart at Hackney Empire
13 June — By Michael White

Opera & Dance

ENO steps into the park with Hansel and Gretel
13 June — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

ROH embraces season of summer madness in Trafalgar Square
06 June — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Manon Lescaut to open Opera Holland Park season
30 May — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Alagna eclipsed in title role of Andrea Chénier at the Royal Opera House
30 May — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Rare treat as the Royal Festival Hall stages two performances of Stockhausen’s Donnerstag aus Licht
16 May — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

ENO’s dream La Mancha not quite possible
09 May — By Michael White

Opera & Dance

Kurt Weill’s shot at the Tsar
03 May — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Best of Britten in Billy Budd at Covent Garden
25 April — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Singing for Keats
25 April — By Michael White
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Rival Queens set to reign at St John’s Smith Square
19 April — By Michael White

Opera & Dance

Devilish fun with Faust at the Royal Opera House
19 April — By Michael White

Opera & Dance

Look back with candour
11 April — By Michael White

Opera & Dance

Murder at the Coliseum in ENO’s Jack the Ripper: the Women of Whitechapel
04 April — By Michael White

Opera & Dance

Mah Banoo ensemble enchants with rare performance
03 April — By Tessa van Rens

Opera & Dance

Charles Court Opera’s 10th Gilbert & Sullivan season at King’s Head Theatre
22 March
Page 3

Classical & Jazz

Michael White’s music news: Handel, vocal and instrumental; guitar summit
21 March — By Michael White

Opera & Dance

Defoe’s classic kidnapped by panto pirates in Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoe
07 March — By Michael White

Classical & Jazz

Michael White’s music news: Clara Schumann, English Touring Opera; Bernard Haitink
07 March — By Michael White

Opera & Dance

Enchanting Elixirs plus Magic from Mozart ­– and Miller
28 February — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Bel canto feast live from the Met
28 February — By Sebastian Taylor
From the Islington Tribune

Classical & Jazz

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: English Touring Opera; sounds of Norway; Ian Bostridge
28 February — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

A Glass act to follow
22 February — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Book now for an opera party in the park
14 February — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Verdi’s shimmering strings to die for: La Traviata at the Royal Opera House
17 January — By Sebastian Taylor

Classical & Jazz

New ventures in opera at All Hallows’ and St James’s
17 January — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Bravo for Kosky’s full-on Bizet
06 December — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Miller’s Bohème: a lofty peak for ENO
29 November — By Sebastian Taylor
From the Islington Tribune

Opera & Dance

Requiem of remembrance
22 November — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Hampstead Garden Opera brings a delightfully confused Secret Marriage to Jackson’s Lane Theatre
15 November — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Wallace Collection; Cosi fan tutte; jazz gigs
01 November — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: MetLive screenings; LSO family concert; Brahms’ Requiem; Halloween
25 October — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Plenty O’ Something in ENO’s ultra-authentic staging of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
19 October — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Juliana opera; relax at the Wigmore; Hendrix sounds; Australian...
18 October — By Sebastian Taylor
From the Islington Tribune

Opera & Dance

Poling gets political in The King’s Head Theatre’s splendid new staging of La Traviata
11 October — By seb

Opera & Dance

Haydn’s ill-fated opera The Apothecary comes to Hampstead in a fully staged production from...
11 October — By Sebastian Taylor
From the Islington Tribune

Opera & Dance

Impeccable singing, but the dancing… not so much
04 October — By Sebastian Taylor

Film

High notes this autumn live from the Met
28 September — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Sicily Denner Clarinet Ensemble; Street Requiem; Nelson Mass;...
28 September — By Sebastian Taylor
Page 4

Classical & Jazz

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: classical guitar; Russia Opera’s Carmen; Winterreise; organ recital;...
13 September — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Tête-à-Tête and Grimeborn
16 August — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

Sax and surprising rhythms at the Spice of Life
09 August — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Catch a terrible Tosca and century-old sex at the Tête-à-Tête festival
09 August — By Sebastian Taylor
From the Islington Tribune

Opera & Dance

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Grimeborn Opera Festival’s third week at the Arcola
09 August — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Opera gets intimate at the Tête-à-Tête Festival
02 August — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Hampstead Garden Opera tells the truth about love
02 August — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Follow the Fleet!
26 July — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Classical & Jazz

A feast of musical festivals: from St Marylebone to Grimeborn via a Guitar Summit and the Beethoven...
19 July — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Verdi’s Falstaff at full throttle, conveyed with consummate Terfel ease at the Royal Opera House
12 July — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Kiss Me, Kate: lips shtick is a delight
03 July — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

Wagner shines amid the gloom in a new production of Lohengrin at the Royal Opera House
14 June — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

This year’s intimate opera festival Tête à Tête promises to be ‘a scream’
24 May — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Curtain up on Opera Holland Park’s summer season
24 May — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Lessons in Love and Violence is a right royal affair with music to die for
17 May — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

La Traviata with a Sixties Swing from Hampstead Garden Opera
17 May — By Sebastian Taylor

Classical & Jazz

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Sing Elgar; Mascagni; Rosary Sonatas at St Dominic’s; Spring concert...
10 May — By Sebastian Taylor

Film

Bergman hits a high note on the British Film Institute’s ranking of opera on film
03 May — By Sebastian Taylor
From the Islington Tribune

Classical & Jazz

Prom season at St Jude’s promises a mix of jazz, choral music and family friendly concerts
28 April — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

The Royal Opera House brilliant revival of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is a deliciously murderous affair
19 April — By Sebastian Taylor

Opera & Dance

How dancer who fled Nazis found perfect stage in north London
12 April — By Mike Pentelow

Opera & Dance

Lady Macbeth is queen of the night
06 April — By Sebastian Taylor
From the West End Extra

Opera & Dance

Romance and comedy lined up for this season’s Opera Holland Park
30 March — By Sebastian Taylor
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