Roderic Dunnett
Roderic Dunnett
Articles by Roderic Dunnett
Orpheus, Classical Opera Company, Page, London Handel Festival
Saturday, 23 March 2013
A toast to London’s Handel Festival, now celebrating its 36th year, and to Ian Page’s adventurous Classical Opera Company, for pulling Telemann out of the drawer and placing him in the forefront... Read more... |
Imago, Glyndebourne Opera
Monday, 11 March 2013
Imago, Glyndebourne’s latest Community Opera exercise, putting the cap on 25 years of pioneering educational outreach, is one of those operas where you need to read the programme synopsis first. Read more... |
Simon Boccanegra, English Touring Opera
Saturday, 09 March 2013
Simon Boccanegra has, as English Touring Opera’s director James Conway points out, never quite made the running outside Italy amid Verdi’s output. It went through three to five different versions in... Read more... |
The Tallis Scholars, St Paul's Cathedral
Friday, 08 March 2013
In November 1973 a 20-year-old music scholar from St. John’s College, Oxford conducted the first ever concert by the newly founded Tallis Scholars, in St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford. Anyone who was there... Read more... |
Kavakos, Matsuev, London Symphony Orchestra, Gergiev, Barbican
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Valery Gergiev’s exploration of the music of Karol Szymanowski is one of the most vitalising series mounted at the Barbican in recent years - to compare, say, with Sir Colin Davis’s Sibelius and... Read more... |
London Symphony Orchestra, Gergiev, Barbican Hall
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Valery Gergiev is a human dynamo. Read more... |
