A new Carmen opens Royal Opera House tonight. I talked to star Aigul Akhmetshina and director Damiano Michieletto about their 'Wild West' production, and the the introduction of a 'phantom' character... gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/feat…

The week in classical: Israel in Egypt, Infinity Gradient and Bluebeard’s Castle reviewed by Fiona Maddocks theguardian.com/music/2024/mar…

The importance of Welsh National Opera‘s new Death in Venice - serious and brilliant

Cheers up, folks. It's not all doom and gloom for the arts. Encouraging audience statistics here from Bachtrack
Essential reading.

Opinion: Tomorrow’s classical music audience is out there.
linkedin.com/pulse/opinion-…

Cheers up, folks. It's not all doom and gloom for the arts. Encouraging audience statistics here from Bachtrack
Essential reading.

Opinion: Tomorrow’s classical music audience is out there.
linkedin.com/pulse/opinion-…

Aurora Orchestra lead Allan Clayton into a new winter landscape ... and CultureWhisper goes too.

culturewhisper.com/r/classical_mu…

Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile | Oxford Literary Festival Looking forward to this with ⁦Gwenan Edwards⁩ Friday 22March 10am Come if you can oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-eve…

The week in classical by Stephen Pritchard 🇪🇺🇮🇹

The week in classical: The Magic Flute; Manon Lescaut review – the trials of love dlvr.it/T3WKKM

Mountainhead is now yours, UK

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LISTEN >>>>> ee.lnk.to/MountainheadTW

The Stravinsky Martini 😆

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from Observer New Review (thanks Fiona Maddocks!):

'This operatic pairing's grip, thanks to a superb cast, chorus and orchestra, is vice-like and dumbfounding'

See our 'powerfully effective double bill' TRCH next week...

theguardian.com/music/2024/feb…

We do love BBC Radio 3.

Nevertheless, meanwhile elsewhere in the multiverse:

Various shades of passion -in Leeds and Bath

So true.

The week in classical: Marx in London!; The Barber of Seville; LSO/ Stutzmann; RPO/ Petrenko – review dlvr.it/T2t92f

Ikea....a re re re tweet

BARNES LITERARY SOCIETY Barnes Literary Society
Feb 27th, 2024
Fiona Maddocks is the Classical Music critic of the Observer. Eleanor Oldroyd, a BBC radio broadcaster & presenter, will be talking to Fiona about her latest book, Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile
artsrichmond.org.uk/whats-on

A bunch of people calling themselves Conservatives had a Hofbrauhaus kind of get together today in which they ranted on in really very fascist tones about basically cancelling the judiciary, laws, institutions and condemned everybody as communists. And they are walking free.

Why every town needs a World Heart Beat - getting music to the have nots and changing lives