wed 29/10/2025
Home > users

stephen walsh

Bio
Stephen is a former Observer music critic and a regular contributor to The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent and the BBC. He is the author of a major biography of Stravinsky and other books on Stravinsky, Bartók and Schumann. He holds a chair in music at Cardiff University.

Articles By Stephen Walsh

The Pilgrim's Progress, Three Choirs Festival review - revelatory performance by young musicians

Friday, 28 July 2023 Read more...

theartsdesk at The Three Choirs Festival - Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Hammond

Tuesday, 25 July 2023 Read more...

The Bartered Bride, Garsington Opera review - brilliant revival of a comedy of cruelty

Monday, 03 July 2023 Read more...

Candide, Welsh National Opera review - vaut le voyage, just for the visual side

Monday, 26 June 2023 Read more...

L'elisir d'amore, Longborough Festival review - agreeable nonsense in a semi-modern English village

Wednesday, 21 June 2023 Read more...

Götterdämmerung, Longborough Festival review - from the hieratic to the mundane and back

Tuesday, 30 May 2023 Read more...

Kim, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bancroft, St.David's Hall, Cardiff review - finding a style in the Eighties

Friday, 21 April 2023 Read more...

Blaze of Glory!, Welsh National Opera review - sparkling entertainment up the valleys

Monday, 13 March 2023 Read more...

The Magic Flute, Welsh National Opera review - Mozart remodelled and remuddled

Monday, 06 March 2023 Read more...

BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC NOW, Jeannin, BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff review - competent music-making, interesting choices

Wednesday, 30 November 2022 Read more...

Mahler 9, BBC NOW, Stenz, St David's Hall, Cardiff review - passionate without bloodshed on the rostrum

Saturday, 19 November 2022 Read more...

The Makropulos Affair, Welsh National Opera review - complexity realised brilliantly on the stage

Saturday, 17 September 2022 Read more...

Spell Book/La liberazione di Ruggiero dell'isola di Alcina, Longborough Festival review - the pitfalls of diversity

Monday, 01 August 2022 Read more...

Quo vadis, Three Choirs Festival review - a hundred minutes of smug serenity and flowing piety

Tuesday, 26 July 2022 Read more...

Alcina, Glyndebourne review - Handel on the strand

Monday, 04 July 2022 Read more...

Die tote Stadt, Longborough Festival review - Korngold on the way back

Wednesday, 22 June 2022 Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
Hedda, Orange Tree Theatre review - a monument reimagined, p...

Hedda Gabler is a Hollywood star of The Golden Age – or rather, she was. She walked off the set of two movies into a five-film...

Emma Doran, Leicester Square Theatre review - domestic life...

The Irish diaspora in London were out in force for Emma Doran’s appearance at Leicester Square Theatre. Her online work and her...

Lily Allen's 'West End Girl' offers a bloody,...

Even in our garish online age, most celebrities and...

The Assembled Parties, Hampstead review - a rarity, a well-m...

There’s a line in the late Richard Greenberg’s 2013 play that refers to a recently elected showbiz type turned politician who sports...

theartsdesk Q&A: director Stefano Sollima on the relevan...

In his celebrated TV-series Gomorrah (based on the bestseller of the same name by author Roberto Saviano) Italian director...

Blu-ray: Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy is a road movie with a...

The Monster of Florence, Netflix review - dramatisation of n...

The problem with making...

Music Reissues Weekly: Joe Meek - A Curious Mind

A curious mind, indeed. Outer space, and what may be there. Communicating with those in the hereafter. Spooks, vampires and other horror film...

Bizet in 150th anniversary year: rich and rare French offeri...

Georges Bizet was born on this day in 1838. He died at the tragically early age of 36, 150 years ago, and the anniversary year has brought forth...