A Conversation With DAME JANET BAKER
Tuesday 15th October 2013, London Jewish Cultural Centre In Conversation with DAME JANET BAKER. PODCAST available here… [Read More]
A Conversation With HOWARD GOODALL
Monday 11th February 2013, King’s Place In conversation with Howard Goodall about his new book and TV series Howard Goodall’s Story of Music. The story of music is the story of our urge to invent, connect, rebel –…
A Conversation With CORINNE WINTERS
Backstage at English National Opera, Edward Seckerson meets Corinne Winters – Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata. Peter Konwitschny’s highly filmic new staging of Verdi’s La Traviata is now an opera in four “pictures”: no interval, no grandstanding finales – not…
A Conversation with JOHN WILSON
Tuesday 21st May 2013, Newbury Festival at Sydmonton Court. In conversation with John Wilson. … [Read More]
A Conversation With JUDE KELLY & TIM WALKER: The Rest Is Noise Festival
Saturday 19th January 2013 6.15pm, Royal Festival Hall In conversation with Jude Kelly and Tim Walker to mark the start of The Rest Is Noise Festival 2013. … [Read More]
A Conversation With RICHARD SUART & MARY BEVAN: Backstage at ENO’s ‘The Mikado’
It’s an amazing statistic in itself that Jonathan Miller’s now iconic production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado is one-fifth as old as the piece itself – that is 26 years. For 25 of those Richard Suart has groveled…
A Conversation With MAXIM VENGEROV
Sunday 18th November 2012, London Jewish Cultural Centre at Ivy House It was a real a real privilege being invited by the London Jewish Cultural Centre to interview Maxim Vengerov at Anna Pavlova’s old London home –…
A Conversation With MARIN ALSOP: Chief Conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
There’s more than just Football and Formula One and the Rio Olympics to divert global attention to Brazil – indeed the whole of South America – at the present time. Classical music has never been hotter than…
A Conversation With CALIXTO BIEITO
The image of the toilet cubicles lingers on but no one can deny the fierce theatricality that shakes up English National Opera whenever Calixto Bieito’s in town. His anarchic Don Giovanni made us reassess the motivations of both sexes…
A Conversation With KRISTJAN JÄRVI: Baltic Youth Philharmonic
The Baltic Youth Philharmonic (founded in 2008) is part of a much larger and bolder enterprise embracing the 10 nation states bordering the Baltic Sea. At a time of financial duress when governments are downgrading culture as…