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Best of 2020: Classical music concerts
Heroic smaller enterprises have kept music live under unpromising circumstances
by David NiceMonday, 28 December 2020
Steven Isserlis on the first day of the Fidelio Orchestra Cafe concerts, 8 JulyNick Rutter
No picture of a musician tells more of a story about 2020 than the above image of cellist Steven Isserlis, stepping out on 8 July to play, what else but Bach, to his first live – albeit small – audience in just under four months.
No picture of a musician tells more of a story about 2020 than the above image of cellist Steven Isserlis, stepping out on 8 July to play, what else but Bach, to his first live – albeit small – audience in just under four months. At that point it took a rare missionary to check out government guidelines on concert presentation and dare to bring back live music to London. The
Best of 2020: Opera
by David NiceSunday, 27 December 2020
Surreal fantasy came off best this year, before and after the fall.
Surreal fantasy came off best this year, before and after the fall. It seems like a decade ago when audiences of all ages were packed tight to crack up - or not get it - at Covent Garden for the UK stage premiere of Gerald Barry s
Alice s Adventures Under Ground in a tirelessly resourceful production by director/designer Antony McDonald. Another brief flourish to a much smaller Royal Opera House audience in October reached many more spectators online with the realisation of the house s new Director of Opera Oliver Mears idea for staging song cycles/cantatas in the dazzling
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
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