Richard Fairman

Music Critic and Contributor at Financial Times

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Grange Park Opera season gets off to a sturdy start with Simon Boccanegra

1 day ago | ft.com | Richard Fairman

Ambition has never been wanting at Grange Park Opera.
My Days: Fretwork album review — a fascinating blend of ancient and modern

1 week ago | ft.com | Richard Fairman

This year marks the 400th anniversary of Orlando Gibbons’s death.
Garsington Opera opens its summer festival with distinctively different productions — review

1 week ago | ft.com | Richard Fairman

For the past 14 years, since it was ousted from its original site, Garsington Opera has been based at the Getty estate at Wormsley in...
The Flying Dutchman, Opera Holland Park review — dramatic designs and a chorus on lusty form

1 week ago | ft.com | Richard Fairman

Somebody at Opera Holland Park must have had a word with the Nordic gods.
Five stars for Christian Gerhaher’s recording of Brahms’ brooding songs — album review

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Richard Fairman

This year marks the centenary of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the great German baritone who made art song his speciality.
Glyndebourne’s Parsifal is musically enthralling — review

2 weeks ago | ft.com | Richard Fairman

Back in 1934, John Christie’s idea of starting an opera festival deep in the English countryside must have seemed an impossible dream.
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 review — spine-tingling recording of Yunchan Lim’s breakout performance

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Richard Fairman

It is said more than 17mn people have already watched the livestream of this concert.
Gustavo Dudamel makes a vivid London Symphony Orchestra debut

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Richard Fairman

Mention the name of Gustavo Dudamel in the UK and the connection that immediately comes to mind is with Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar...
Bizet’s Mélodies captured on record for the first time — album review

3 weeks ago | ft.com | Richard Fairman

The 150th anniversary of Bizet’s death this year has not received much attention.
Why there’s nothing quite like Glyndebourne

4 weeks ago | ft.com | Richard Fairman

“I came down here in the 1960s from Lancashire, where the houses were black, the mills were still going and one of the brooks was...

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