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David Nice

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The classical music and opera editor of theartsdesk, David writes, lectures and broadcasts on music. A former music critic for The Guardian and The Sunday Correspondent, he has made regular appearances on BBC Radio 3, not least in the long-running series Building a Library. He has written short studies on Elgar, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and the history of opera, and is currently working on the second volume of his Prokofiev biography for Yale University Press. He runs two Zoom lecture series, Opera in Depth on Mondays and a symphonies course on Thursdays.

Articles By David Nice

Bavouzet, BBCSO, Stasevska, Barbican review - ardent souls in mythic magic

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Levit, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer, RFH review - anger unleashed, fantasy finessed in Prokofiev

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A Form of Exile: Edward Said and Late Style, CLS, Wood, QEH review - baggy ferment of ideas and sounds

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Mansfield Park, Guildhall School review - fun when frothy, chugging in romantic entanglements

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Uprising, Glyndebourne review - didactic community opera superbly performed

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The Ferryman, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin review - Jez Butterworth's Northern Irish epic comes close to home

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Fledermaus, Irish National Opera review - sex, please, we're Viennese/American/Russian/Irish

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Light of Passage, Royal Ballet review - Crystal Pite’s cosmic triptych powers back

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Mary, Queen of Scots, English National Opera review - heroic effort for an overcooked history lesson

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MacMillan's Ordo Virtutum, BBC Singers, Jeannin, Milton Court review - dramatic journey of a medieval soul

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Festen, Royal Opera review - firing on every front

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Gilliver, Liverman, Rangwanasha, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - a rainbow of British music

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Widmann, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - razor-sharp attack in adrenalin charges

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Biss, BBCSO, Hrůša, Barbican review - electrifying Shostakovich at a crucial time

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Hard Truths review - a bravura, hyperreal performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste

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Giltburg, Pavel Haas Quartet, Wigmore Hall review - into the labyrinth of a Martinů masterpiece

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