A Conversation With ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS
Elin Manahan Thomas‘ lovely voice has graced two of the finest specialist choirs in the world: John Eliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi Choir and Harry Christophers’ The Sixteen. It’s a voice born to embrace the pure and ornate lines…
A Conversation With ALFIE BOE
Alfie Boe – affectionately known as the nation’s favourite tenor – is the latest in a distinguished line of big voices to swagger into the role of Jean Valjean in Boublil and Schönberg’s epic musical Les Misérables.…
A Conversation With STING: Symphonicities
The location is Sting‘s beachside house in Malibu the morning after the night before: another night, another venue – the Hollywood Bowl – another three-hour concert of his songs. That’s concert with a capital “C” because this…
A Conversation With MARK ELDER
The label has always prided itself on its sense of style, its balance of head and heart with regard to casting. Stars have been established from these recordings, operas restored to their rightful place at the core…
A Conversation With JOHN WILSON
John Wilson and the orchestra which bears his name created a absolute sensation at the 2009 Proms with their celebration of 75 years of MGM musicals. 3.5 million people watched the relay live; countless more all over…
A Conversation With JOSHUA BELL
It’s not every day that a superstar of the violin chooses to trade places with an orchestral concert master but Joshua Bell has been doing just that with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for…
A Conversation With ANDREW LITTON: Bergen Philharmonic
Andrew Litton was weaned on music: his parents were passionate music lovers, his godfather, Richard Horowitz, was and still is principal timpanist at the Met. He grew up watching the great and good of opera from the…
A Conversation With KERRY ELLIS
Kerry Ellis amassed a legion of adoring fans when she went “green” playing Elphaba in Stephen Schwartz’ smash-hit musical both in London and on Broadway. But her preeminence as a musical-theatre-diva-cum-rock-chick was secured earlier still when Brian…
A Conversation With RICCARDO CHAILLY
The world’s oldest orchestra – the Leipzig Gewandhaus (this year celebrating its 231st anniversary) – now has a second home in the City of London. Its much talked about residency at the Barbican Centre has already brought…
A Conversation With MARIA FRIEDMAN
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