William Christie
No one understood the ennui of lockdown better than Louis XIV and his courtiers
Alexandra Coghlan 9 May 2020 9:00 am
A few years ago I interviewed an eminent baroque conductor. Prickly and professorial, tired after a day of rehearsals, he…
Meet the unrivalled Sun King of early music, William Christie
Richard Bratby 23 November 2019 9:00 am
It’s morning in the garden of William Christie, and he’s talking about home improvements. ‘I planted three pines up there…
Excellent but there’s too much larking about: ENO’s Rodelinda reviewed
Michael Tanner 4 November 2017 9:00 am
ENO has revived Richard Jones’s production of Handel’s Rodelinda. It was warmly greeted on its first outing in 2014, though…
Time to end authenticity
Alexandra Coghlan 12 August 2017 9:00 am
They say the first step towards recovery is admitting that you have a problem. So I’m staging an intervention and…
Sacred Monsters, Sadler’s Wells: Sylvie Guillem and Akram Kham’s captivating final boogie
Ismene Brown 6 December 2014 9:00 am
I’m dashing between dance theatres at the moment and there’s just so much to tell you about. I could linger…
Forget the Germans. It’s the French who made classical music what it is
Igor Toronyi-Lalic 6 December 2014 9:00 am
The poor French. When we think of classical music, we always think of the Germans. It’s understandable. Instinctive. Ingrained. But…
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