Buxton Festival

We Remainers aren’t going away

20 July 2019 9:00 am

My voice is often recognised by people who don’t know me. My face, which is unmemorable, less so. But once…

A sonic masterclass: the Silesian String Quartet at Wigmore Hall reviewed

20 July 2019 9:00 am

Of all the daft notions about the classical music business, the daftest is that it’s a business at all. Seriously:…

Delibes’ Lakmé at Holland Park is visually soporific, but the singing keeps Geoff Brown awake

18 July 2015 9:00 am

These are nervous times at the opera. When should we expect the gratuitous rape scene? Will the director relocate the…

Buxton Festival sticks its neck out with two rarities by Dvorak and Gluck

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Dvorak’s The Jacobin and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, the two operas that opened this year’s Buxton Festival, are both relative…