A Conversation With IAN STOREY
In 2007 the English tenor, Ian Storey, made a dramatic and highly visible debut as Tristan in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the season opening of La Scala, Milan, conducted by Daniel Barenboim and directed by Patrice Chereau. It…
A Conversation With JAN VOGLER: Dresden Music Festival 2013
The 36th Dresden Music Festival has a big title and even bigger ambitions – EMPIRE – a theme which Artistic Director Jan Vogler hopes will embrace not just the cultural achievements of the British Empire but the…
A Conversation With VASILY PETRENKO: RLPO Shostakovich Symphonies
Vasily Petrenko’s highly acclaimed cycle of the Shostakovich Symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra reaches an important chapter in what Petrenko himself calls a “biopic” of the composer’s life and times. The 7th Symphony “Leningrad” chronicles…
A Conversation With MICHAEL BERKLEY: Launch of the Nash Ensemble’s American Series
Saturday 9th November 2013, Wigmore Hall Bechstein Room 6.00pm Conversation with MICHAEL BERKELEY to launch the Nash Ensemble’s American Series… [Read More]
A Conversation About The AMERICAN MUSICAL: The Rest Is Noise
Royal Festival Hall, Sunday 24 March 2013 12.30-1.30. In conversation about the American Musical in the first half of the 20th Century as part of “The Rest is Noise” series.… [Read More]
A Conversation With BETTY BUCKLEY: ‘Dear World’
The place is the elegant One Aldwych hotel and in a suite kindly provided by the management Broadway star Betty Buckley is in post workout mode chatting to Edward Seckerson about her return to the London stage…
A Conversation With RENÉE FLEMING
Not many singers could entitle a recital album The Beautiful Voice and ensure that in every sense it lived up to its name. Renée Fleming’s now iconic album is shortly to have a successor and in this…
A Conversation With DAVID McVICAR & SARAH CONNOLLY: Charpentier’s ‘Medea’
Backstage at English National Opera, David McVicar & Sarah Connolly discuss Charpentier’s Medea. It is Wednesday 6 February and just prior to the afternoon stage rehearsal at the London Coliseum I sit down with David McVicar and Sarah…
A Conversation With SIR JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
Sir John Eliot Gardiner dislikes being branded a “Baroque specialist” and with a discography exceeding 250 recordings and embracing a bewildering diversity of repertoire one can understand why. From Monteverdi to The Merry Widow he is and…
A Conversation With SIR BRYN TERFEL
Fresh from four cycles of Wagner’s Ring at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and a run of performances in one of his signature roles – Wagner’s Flying Dutchman – the great Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel was…