MUSICALS Podcast: Edward Seckerson meets ZACHARY JAMES
For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson meets Zachary James, who’s currently hotting up the Underworld on the other side of that wall in Hadestown. James, who originated the role of Lurch in the Andrew Lippa musicalisation of The…
DAME JANET BAKER in Conversation: Ryedale Festival
Monday 25th July 2022 7.30pm Duncombe Park, Helmsely One of the greatest of all singers gives a rare public interview in her native North Yorkshire. Dame Janet Baker is joined by Edward Seckerson to discuss her life…
GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – March 2022
Recent times have taught us to take nothing for granted – so dare I get too excited about the rescheduling of live events with the great Dame Janet Baker with whom I shall be bound to three…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Britten The Turn of the Screw (DVD) – Soloists, OperaGlass Works, Sinfonia of London/Wilson
How inspired of OperaGlass Works’ founders Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson to identify Wilton’s venerable Music Hall as the perfect environment in which to reimagine Britten’s masterpiece The Turn of the Screw. But the projected run of…
GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – November 2021
We all love a drama, most especially one that stems from an unforeseen crisis. During this year’s foreshortened Prom season tenor Simon O’Neill, the eponymous hero of Glyndebourne’s Tristan und Isolde realised after act two that his…
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ: WICKED at 15
Wicked UK’s new podcast with composer / lyricist Stephen Schwartz and Edward Seckerson, to mark the 15th anniversary of the show in London’s West End. They discuss the enduring popularity of this musical theatre phenomenon, as well…
COMPARING NOTES with LUCY SCHAUFER
Sunday 28th November 2021 3.00pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be getting…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Barber A Hand of Bridge, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Medea – Soloists, Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Rose
A monodrama, a ballet and a mini-opera. Three faces of Samuel Barber ‘in camera’. One might expect a unique offering from a source committed to that cause – namely the Boston Modern Orchestra Project – but I…
GRAMOPHONE: From Where I Sit – July 2021
Some artists leave a legacy which far transcends the excellence of their work. We remember their performances as surely as we remember the stages of our own lives and development. We remember where we were, how we…
GRAMOPHONE Review: Bartók Duke Bluebeard’s Castle – Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra/Mälkki
Out of the darkness, a voice (Géza Szilvay), a whispered invitation to enter the darkest recesses of Duke Bluebeard’s mind. That spoken introduction to Bartok’s operatic masterpiece – quiet and confidential – invokes solitude and nothing but…
