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City of London Sinfonia/Layton - review

22.08.11
It was Richard Hickox who, with a characteristically ebullient phone call in 2008, just three days before his untimely death, commissioned Colin Matthews's latest piece from him... more

City of London Sinfonia/Collins, Plaisterers' Hall - review

30.06.11
In November 2008 the musical world lost one of its most distinguished and popular conductors, Richard Hickox. It was a nice touch for the City of London Sinfonia to programme a couple of works by composers... more

Don Pasquale panto spirit in the park

08.06.11
Don Pasquale is good pantomime stuff that might be funnier if the opera were sung in English ... more

Mood captured in Un Ballo in Maschera

22.07.09
Martin Lloyd‑Evans's OHP production of Un Ballo in Maschera catches some of the opera's hallucinatory intensity. ... more

Southbank lures the young with wolves, female hip-hop ... and 25,000 free tickets

27.02.09
Thousands of free tickets are on offer for a music festival for young people at the Southbank Centre this spring... more

Beggar's Opera is only so-so in Soho

21.01.09
Pay your local hobo a tenner to croon Nessun Dorma and you'll have a Beggar's Opera more coherent than the Royal Opera's offering.... more

Conductor Richard Hickox dies at 60

24.11.08
Richard Hickox has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 60, four days before he was due to conduct a new production at English National Opera... more

Tavener wants words to matter

17.11.08
John Tavener's Requiem stares death in the face while also attempting a synthesis of some of the world's great religions.... more

Joy of melodrama in La Gioconda

23.07.08
La Gioconda is a work of extreme emotion and many exclamation marks which explodes into epic, grisly life and proves its worth.... more

La Fille du Régiment saved by cast

05.06.08
La Fille du Régiment seems undernourished but the production is blessed with a singer whose voice is bright, clean and agile.... more

Il Trovatore not dampened by weather

04.06.08
There may have been gipsy curses on the weather but Il Trovatore stormed to success in its opening night at Opera Holland Park.... more

London orchestras face bleak future

17.12.07
Two of Britain's best chamber orchestras and a popular arts centre are among the victims of the latest Arts Council slash in funding.... more

An evening of great Britten

05.12.07
After a ponderous start, the current glut of British tenors and baritones in the opera Owen Wingrave, made every word audible.... more

Sex and death in Italy

30.07.07
A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

A very exotic bloom in the park

04.07.07
The songs may be familiar but the opera, Lakme, an exotic fantasy about religious oppression in Imperial India, is fairly unknown... more

Gripping Jenufa is first-class

07.06.07
Olivia Fuchs's intelligent staging of Jenufa at Opera Holland Park is a production which grips you throughout ... more

Chorus of approval in park

06.06.07
Verdi's Nabucco opened the 2007 season at Opera Holland Park and David Wakeham offers a performance of genuine stature in the lead role... more

Boost for neglected Britten

25.04.07
The booms and rataplans of war find bitter expression in squalls of brass, wailing oboe, and quiet, manic piano scales in Leon Britten's Owen Wingrave.... more

New Yorkers miss out

18.08.06
Proms replacements for the security-stranded Orchestra of St Lukes - the City of London Sinfonia - perform admirably at short notice.... more

Three of a kind

17.08.06
Barry Millington picks out three must see classical performances to go and see in London.... more

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