Opera
Letters
When the wind blows Sir: Clare Oxford’s piece (‘Gone with the wind turbines’, 12 April) is both timely and sad.…
German double
Yet more performances of Elektra, Richard Strauss’s setting of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s ramped-up, neurosis-riddled 1903 reworking of Sophocles, are unlikely…
Flawed Flute
A new production of The Magic Flute is something to look forward to, if with apprehension. How many aspects of…
Disturbed by Britten
This week chanced to give me a fascinating study in contrasts and comparisons: Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek at the Linbury Studio,…
Letters
Why we joined Sir: I was astonished by the assertion made by Wyn Grant (Letters, 21 September) that ‘the postwar…
‘I adore the stage’
Michael Kennedy salutes the mezzo-soprano Janet Baker,who celebrates her 80th birthday next week
Diary
Hay-making was easy this year, and over in good time for a holiday. I am opposed to holidays, having worked…
Bottled opera
Glyndebourne. There is no single quintessential example of English scenery, but this is one of the finest. The landscape is …
Letters
Wild weather Sir: Weather and climate science is not an emotional or political issue — even though emotions and politics run…
Taking up the challenge
There are no two ways about it: Wagner’s Ring cycle, the biggest challenge that any opera company can face, has…
