This was special. My review for @bachtrack.com
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Damn. Now I'm beating myself up for not including Der Sturm, which I adore. Needs to replace The Immortal Hour, although that forgotten gem needs its champions.
It's all right: I included a 21st-C opera in a 20th-C list so I'm no better. Swap Last Days for Bluebeard's Castle!
Tsk - only one per composer. Otherwise my own list would have been very different indeed!
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PellΓ©as et MΓ©lisande
Ariadne auf Naxos
Billy Budd
Wozzeck
The Fiery Angel
Il tabarro
Last Days
The Lighthouse
The Immortal Hour
It's an impossible job, Mark, but fun.
Tristan und Isolde
Don Carlo(s)
Les Troyens
Queen of Spades
Khovanshchina
Hansel und Gretel
Werther
La bohème
Der FreischΓΌtz
Carmen
That'll do. Damn you, Debussy, for not writing PellΓ©as et MΓ©lisande 3 years earlier.
We spotted you in the dim and distant, dear Christian.
Ah it would have been lovely to see you Jonathan. Yes, it was indeed the other Mark. He was there to undertake quality control over my wayward thoughts. π€ͺ
Last night I dreamt that the new #Ghosts film should be called 'Ghosts - For Good' and now conscious me can't improve on that.
In that case they should change their delivery provider.
Tonight I'll be at the @southbankcentre.bsky.social to hear the LPO and their newly-installed Chief Conductor Designate Paavo JΓ€rvi in action.
- Tchaik PC2 with Kantarow
- Sibelius 2
Reviewing for @bachtrack.com
No, it's Das Rheingold.
I'll see you at two of them!
Any of them first nights, Ruth?
News: Paavo JΓ€rvi appointed as new Chief Conductor & Artistic Advisor of the @LPOrchestra
My review for @bachtrack.com of Thursday's Barbican concert
Pronunciation guide please. John! Two sounds, two meanings. Either is plausible.
We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.
As this is still rolling, I will say one thing about Yuja Wang; I don't know a practising musician who wouldn't feel honoured to even get a reply from her.
Successive interviews by Nick Robinson this morning perfectly sum up the BBC:
with Zack Polanski: sneering, aggressive, constantly interrupting.
with David Bull, Reform's Chairman: polite, nodding along, barely any interruptions.
Amazing. Will share the link when it's up so you can listen too.
Proud to be associated with Musical America
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My second 7 pm start of the week and I couldn't be happier. At last the needs of concert and opera goers who live outside London are being recognised. @barbicancentre.bsky.social
To the @barbicancentre.bsky.social later to hear Patricia Kopatchinskaja play Berg's beautiful and profound VC with the LSO under Noseda. Programme also inc. Debussy's Nuages + FΓͺtes and Rach 1.
I'll be reviewing for @bachtrack.com. Meanwhile here's a nice gif...
Tonight I'll be at Guildhall for the first night of Britten's Owen Wingrave. It'll be the second time I've seen a student production of it by GSMD.
Reviewing for Opera.
You've just missed a special moment, Simon
Uncanny. Quick glance in a bad light, anyway.
If you've woken up this morning thinking 'It's the weekend and I've just read an interesting review of Mahagonny at ENO'...
...you've missed it. Three strikes and they're out.
Merci infiniment, Mathieu. J'ai la chair de poule suite Γ une telle perfection.