Oct 6, 2025 | Features, Reviews
Leeds Grand Theatre 26 September 2025 What more refreshing a way for a opera company to launch its new season than with a British work involving the next generation of singers, musicians, creative technicians and administrators as well as new audiences for opera. Dame...
Sep 9, 2025 | Features, Reviews
A field of butterflies on the Pennine Moors, ethereal poetry and fascinating music in your ears as you explore the wild landscape above Haworth in West Yorkshire. What’s this got to do with Opera? This is Earth & Sky, Opera North’s extraordinary immersive...
May 26, 2025 | Book reviews, Reviews
Simon Webb The Langley Press This book is probably best regarded as a short (98 pages) introduction to the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. It is written mainly from the perspective of Coleridge-Taylor’s status as a black composer in Victorian...
Nov 22, 2024 | Features, Reviews
14 November 2024 We were treated to a master class of musicianship by three very experienced and talented musicians, all extremely well known in their specialist fields. A large and very appreciative audience sat spellbound as John Turner (recorder),...
Jul 22, 2024 | Features, Reviews
St Elizabeth’s Church, Ashley, near Altrincham18 May 2024 Thomas Pitfield (1903-99) can best be described as a 20th century Renaissance man. Although primarily known as a composer, he was also a prodigious artist, poet, engraver and cabinet-maker. He taught...
May 24, 2024 | News, Reviews
Concert review: music by Kraus, Coult, Sibelius and Arnold St Paul’s SinfoniaPhilippa Boyle soprano Andrew Morley conductor Friday 17 May, St Margaret’s Church, Blackheath The St Paul’s Sinfonia, who celebrate their 20th anniversary next year, are a...
