Alexandra Coghlan
Classical Music Journalist at Freelance
Classical music journalist. Occasionally also writes about books, plays and films. Author, Carols From King's, Ebury, 2016.
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1 week ago |
gramophone.co.uk | Alexandra Coghlan
⭐⭐⭐Marcus Farnsworth and Susanna Hurrell in A Visit to Friends at Aldeburgh Festival (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith)A Visit to Friends is an opera-within-an-opera, adapted from a play, which is itself based on a short story. Got it?
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Alexandra Coghlan
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Alexandra Coghlan
As The Hamptons is to New York, so summer opera is to the big urban companies. Every May, opera swaps city shoes and a no-nonsense attitude for sundresses and off-duty frolics in gardens, marquees, theatres and fields across the country. But don’t let the champagne and picnics fool you: this is seriously good music, created by small opera companies who punch well above their weight. Come for the fun, stay for the singing, the sets, the sense of an art form fizzing with talent and creative energy.
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4 weeks ago |
thetablet.co.uk | Alexandra Coghlan
Feel the Sound at the Barbican Centre, London Sound is an aggressor when you live in a city. It invades buses and trains in a shriek of TikTok videos and phone calls, pushes into our homes in the whir of the bin lorry, the bang and screech of our neighbour’s building work. It swells in restaurants, rustles and coughs in church. A new exhibition at the Barbican Centre promises to “transform how we think about sound” – but it ends up just adding to the noise.
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1 month ago |
theartsdesk.com | Alexandra Coghlan
“Satan come to me!” The Devil doesn’t so much appear in David McVicar’s Faust as reveal himself to have always been there. We discover him – travelling trunk and brandy glass to hand, lazy smile on his lips – considering the interior of designer Charles Edwards’ magnificent church in Gounod’s own Second Empire Paris. And why not?
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The calm at Snape before the most massive storm overnight: half an hour of enormous thunder and lightning. All fresh and still again this morning… https://t.co/M5MnPgEEpM
A sparky, feel-good Elisir at Garsington, and a disappointing Butterfly at Grange Park: https://t.co/EF2fjRa1u4 review @theipaper https://t.co/v0Z2ttLArv
Interviewed the delightful Masaaki Suzuki for @The_Tablet ahead of his debut with the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra later this month: https://t.co/jhlt68Sh9j
