Kimon Daltas
Kimon Daltas
Articles by Kimon Daltas
Peter Grimes, Aldeburgh Beach
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
First things first. There are limited tickets still available for this run of Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh beach but there won’t be for long, so move fast. You can read the rest... Read more... |
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Garsington Opera
Saturday, 08 June 2013
In sunshineand bright blue skies there can be few places more green and pleasant than Wormsley Park. Garsington Opera has found a happy home there, with this being its third season in its sleekly... Read more... |
Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Royal Albert Hall
Thursday, 06 June 2013
Comebacks may be all the rage but Elvis Costello just keeps on going. It's the third year running that he has taken his band The Imposters on the Revolver Tour, featuring The Spectacular Spinning... Read more... |
The Perfect American, English National Opera
Sunday, 02 June 2013
There were a small but substantial number of children dotted around the auditorium at the opening night of The Perfect American, and one hopes they hadn’t been led to expect singalong-a-Disney, all... Read more... |
Falstaff, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Monday, 20 May 2013
In this revival of Richard Jones's 2009 production, the action has been very effectively shifted to post-war Windsor with Sir John Falstaff (Laurent Naouri) as down-at-heel gentry maintaining... Read more... |
CD: The Fall - Re-Mit
Monday, 06 May 2013
There isn’t really a consensus on what the single best Fall album is. However, I did come across a thread on a fansite asking devotees to nominate their favourite album title. Not album – album title. Read more... |
Bostridge, Britten Sinfonia, Barbican Hall
Sunday, 05 May 2013
The Barbican Hall’s house lights faded to black, with just the soft glow of music stand lamps on stage as the Britten Sinfonia filed on and eased into the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.... Read more... |
Vengerov, Golan, Barbican Hall
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Maxim Vengerov’s four-year absence from the London stage is recent enough that any performance by him has the added value of having been clawed back from a jealous god. That a violinist of such... Read more... |
The Fall, Islington Assembly Hall
Friday, 07 December 2012
Support bands tend to get short shrift, but it would be criminal not to give Evil Blizzard their due here. Made up of three bass guitarists with assorted effects pedals and a drummer who also sang,... Read more... |
Kate Royal, Spira Mirabilis, QEH
Thursday, 06 December 2012
The billing for this all-Schubert concert, "Spira Mirabilis and Kate Royal", was a little misleading, since they did not actually share the stage at any point, the two halves being clearly separate... Read more... |
Kavakos, London Symphony Orchestra, Bychkov, Barbican Hall
Monday, 26 November 2012
Leonidas Kavakos was originally meant to be premiering a concerto by Argentinian composer Oswaldo Golijov, which had also been scheduled for Berlin in 2011 and subsequently for Los Angeles in May... Read more... |
Carmen, English National Opera
Thursday, 22 November 2012
We had already been reassured in interviews that Calixto Bieito’s production of Carmen would not be shocking, although perhaps this was more a warning to those of us hoping that it might be. Bieito’s... Read more... |
Bon Iver, Wembley Arena
Friday, 09 November 2012
Bon Iver’s eponymous second album is nearly a year-and-a-half old now, so its bigger, richer sound – compared to the homemade sparseness of the debut – is well established. Nevertheless, it was hard... Read more... |
Benjamin Grosvenor, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday, 01 November 2012
Benjamin Grosvenor made his Southbank recital debut last night in a sold-out Queen Elizabeth Hall in another milestone in his unstoppable evolution from wunderkind to fully-fledged concert star. It... Read more... |
The Lighthouse, English Touring Opera
Friday, 12 October 2012
Confinement is a thread running through English Touring Opera’s autumn season. In Albert Herring it is in the priggish village; in The Emperor of Atlantis it is in the circumstances of its creation... Read more... |
Albert Herring, English Touring Opera
Friday, 05 October 2012
Albert Herring probably doesn’t make the top five most performed of Britten’s operas, yet is easily the best known work in English Touring Opera’s brave Autumn season – the other two are Viktor... Read more... |
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