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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 7h

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 8h

I too have read this book for review. V interesting to see @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social’s take on it - lots we agree on. My review out on @theartsdesk.bsky.social shortly

Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 8h

Robin Holloway's Music's Odyssey is certainly an epic. I took the journey and lived to tell the tale
@spectator www.spectator.co.uk/article/robi...

Robin Holloway lambasts some of our most beloved composers

Irreverent, outspoken and unfailingly opinionated, with knowledge as broad as his vocabulary, Robin Holloway is exactly the person you’d want to sit next to at a concert. The warmest of interval chard...

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 8h

Robin Holloway's Music's Odyssey is certainly an epic. I took the journey and lived to tell the tale
@spectator www.spectator.co.uk/article/robi...

Robin Holloway lambasts some of our most beloved composers

Irreverent, outspoken and unfailingly opinionated, with knowledge as broad as his vocabulary, Robin Holloway is exactly the person you’d want to sit next to at a concert. The warmest of interval chard...

www.spectator.co.uk

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theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 1d

'Much more fun than a Classical biopera might sound' ★★★★ GIUSTINO #LinburyTheatre @royaloperahouse.bsky.social - Gods, mortals and monsters do battle in #Handel's charming drama - @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social enjoys a stylish account of a slight opera theartsdesk.com/opera/giusti...

Giustino, Linbury Theatre review - a stylish account of a slight opera

It’s a good year to be Handel-lover. No sooner have summer runs of Rodelinda (Garsington) and Saul (Glyndebourne) finished than we’re into autumn and Opera North’s Susanna, Giustino at the Royal Opera...

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 3d

Tenderness and intimacy from @etopera.bsky.social new Rape of Lucretia: www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/the-...

The Rape of Lucretia: intimate and tender

Read our review of The Rape of Lucretia: Robin Norton-Hale’s new production for English Touring Opera pulls the audience close

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 6d

"A fascinating experiment" - review of Bushra El-Turk's Oum: A Son's Quest for his Mother @thestage.co.uk www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/oum-...

Oum – A Son’s Quest for His Mother review at the Barbican Hall: Engrossing

Read our review of Oum – A Son’s Quest for His Mother at London's Barbican Hall. Bushra El-Turk and Wout van Tongeren’s opera is never less than engrossing

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 7d

Ahead of the Barbican's Arvo Part at 90 exhibition, I explored the blanched sonic world of Estonia's greatest living composer: www.thetablet.co.uk/arts/arvo-pa...

Arvo Pärt at 90 - The Tablet

Who is the world’s most performed living composer? According to statistics, the answer is John Williams: classical music’s commercial king of Hollywood. No

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 16d

Is it time to stop worrying and learn to love Verdi's operatic bomb? I enjoyed a third visit to Stefan Herheim's Vepres Siciliennes @royaloperahouse.bsky.social
gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/re...

Verdi: Les Vepres Siciliennes at Royal Opera | Live Review

It's all undeniably gorgeous – and, if you can hold on to the slippery double-narrative –compelling

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 17d

It was a gift to have a reason to spend far too much time listening to the many - and very varied - recordings of Jean Richafort's ravishing Requiem
for Gramophone magazine - try this and marvel: open.spotify.com/track/2KTkXA...
www.gramophone.co.uk/features/art...

Requiem in memoriam Josquin Desprez: I. Introitus - Requiem aeternam

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 27d

The Royal Opera's new Tosca delivers just enough shock without scaring the horses: inews.co.uk/culture/arts...

'Putin's Diva' sparked protests - but she brought star-power to Tosca

The first new staging for almost 20 years brings the shock-factor back to Puccini's opera

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Aug 21

I remember Christine Brewer in there - she made the half-dome ring and then some!

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Is it a musical or an opera? Grimeborn's Sense & Sensibility: The Musical should pick a lane: inews.co.uk/culture/arts...

Grimeborn's Sense and Sensibility is edgy yet unmemorable

This opera-musical at the Arcola Theatre in East London has a nifty DIY quality, but fails to capitalise on its strengths

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Always the case with the Proms. Bit tricky that the people paying for the tickets get a reliably inferior experience to those listening at home, but...

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Aug 20

An opera company makes its London debut: review of Wild Arts' sober Eugene Onegin & a giddy Elisir d'amore at Opera Holland Park: gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/re...

Wild Arts Opera at Opera Holland Park | Live Review

The Essex-based company presents Eugene Onegin and The Elixir of Love

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Aug 18

V much agree. And often the smallest things can work brilliantly - it’s mid-size that’s the problem… Was also surprised not to be more persuaded by the Arvo Part Prom.

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Aug 18

Loved the music, hated the hall - pace purists, but it's time for some inauthentic solutions to early music at the Proms...

theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social · Aug 18

★★★★ #BBCProms #LeConcertSpirituel #HerveNiquet - Monumental works don't quite make for monumental sounds in @royalalberthall.bsky.social - @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social is struck by super-sized polyphonic rarities & impressed by monumental effort in performance www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

BBC Proms: Le Concert Spirituel, Niquet review - super-sized polyphonic rarities

There’s a Proms paradox that’s familiar to Early Music fans. Some works are too challenging – too big, too expensive, too uncommercial, too obscure – to do anywhere else. The trouble is, the Royal Alb...

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Aug 8

And there was me restraining myself all tastefully from ‘head to severed head’…!

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · Aug 8

This new Hyperion album contains a piece by someone new to me, a man with the BEST FRENCH COMPOSER NAME EVER. Does anyone know anything about Didier-Gaston de l'Aubergine? #classicalmusic #cello #frenchcomposers

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Aug 8

Good to be going head to head with @larkingrumple.bsky.social again in Gramophone - this time about a classic recording of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites:

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Jul 28

That’s so kind of you to say - thank you Christian!

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Jul 27

**** Some seriously classy playing from Kantorow and a Scottish Chamber Orchestra performing like a crack baroque band for Emelyanychev: BBC Proms review @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/culture/arts...

Alexandre Kantorow is superb - but Maxim Emelyanychev was the star

Emelyanychev brought this broad and delicate performance of Betthoven's Fifth together

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Jul 24

Busy month!

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Very much enjoyed my first trip to West Green Opera www.gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/re...

Verdi: Macbeth at West Green Opera | Live Review

The real musical thrills here are all on the stage. Male and female choruses set the tone: zingy, strongly projected and articulated – serious talent-in-waiting

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Jul 20

First visit to @westgreenopera_ last night - what a magical garden and place. Bonus points for three-man duck security team shaking down picnickers for crumbs…

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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · Jul 18

Plenty of laughs and some cracking orchestral playing in this rewrite of Mozart’s The Impresario at Buxton Festival. Debut review from me @TheStage
www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/the-...

The Impresario review at Buxton Opera House: Multilayered

Read our review of The Impresario at Buxton Opera House. Directed by Christopher Gillett, a contemporary rewrite gives Mozart's operatic oddity new comic zest

www.thestage.co.uk

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