Reviews
I review opera, orchestral, and chamber music concerts for The Times, The Financial Times, Parterre Box, and Bachtrack.
My favourite performances have included Frau ohne Schatten at the Met, Lulu at La Monnaie, Anna Caterina Antonacci in recital, and Michael Tilson Thomas’ Mahler with the NY Philharmonic. A selection of my reviews can be found below:
Opera
Antony and Cleopatra (Metropolitan Opera; The Times)
Salome (Metropolitan Opera; The Times)
Le nozze di Figaro (Metropolitan Opera; The Times)
Moby Dick (Metropolitan Opera; The Times)
Salome (Heartbeat Opera; Bachtrack)
Aida (Metropolitan Opera; The Times)
Frau ohne Schatten (Metropolitan Opera; Financial Times)
Il Trovatore (Metropolitan Opera; Financial Times)
Les contes d’Hoffmann (Metropolitan Opera; Financial Times)
Marriage of Figaro (Little Island; Financial Times)
Le damnation de Faust (Bard College; Financial Times)
Le prophète (Bard College; Financial Times)
Bluebeard’s Castle (Carnegie Hall; Parterre)
Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Metropolitan Opera; Financial Times)
Eugene Onegin (Heartbeat Opera; Bachtrack)
La Rondine (Metropolitan Opera; Financial Times)
La Voix Humaine/Erwartung (Teatro Real; Parterre)
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Carnegie Hall; Financial Times)
Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera; Parterre)
Dead Man Walking (Metropolitan Opera; Parterre)
Poliuto (Teatro Nuovo; Parterre)
Champion (Metropolitan Opera; Parterre)
Der Rosenkavalier (Metropolitan Opera; Financial Times)
Dialogues des Carmelites (Metropolitan Opera; Parterre)
Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera; Parterre)
The Hours (Metropolitan Opera; The Times)
La Bohème (Glyndebourne; Bachtrack)
Bajazet (Royal Opera House; Bachtrack)
Theodora (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; Bachtrack)
La Traviata (Seattle Opera; Bachtrack)
Dark Sisters (Vancouver Opera; Bachtrack)
Orchestral
NY Phil/Tilson Thomas (Lincoln Center; Bachtrack)
Staatskapelle Berlin/Nézet-Séguin (Carnegie Hall; Financial Times)
NY Phil/van Zweden (Lincoln Center; Financial Times)
NY Phil/Yunchan Lim/Gaffigan (Lincoln Center; Financial Times)
Boston Symphony Orchestra/Nelsons (Carnegie Hall; Financial Times)
NY Phil/Mäkelä (Lincoln Center; Bachtrack)
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Wigglesworth (BBC Proms; The Times)
London Symphony Orchestra/Hannigan (Barbican; Bachtrack)
Chamber and Vocal
Lise Davidsen/Pérez-Sierra (Teatro Real; Parterre)
Doppelganger/Kaufmann (Park Avenue Armory; Financial Times)
Fatma Said/Rafael Aguirre (Carnegie Hall; Parterre)
Anna Caterina Antonacci/Donald Sulzen (Wigmore Hall; Bachtrack)
Maxim Vengerov/Polina Osetinskaya (Barbican; Bachtrack)
Mariella Devia/Giulio Zappa (Wigmore Hall; Bachtrack)
Augustin Dumay/Louis Lortie (Wigmore Hall; Bachtrack)
Benjamin Grosvenor (Vancouver Playhouse; Bachtrack)
András Schiff (Chan Centre; Bachtrack)
Iestyn Davies/Thomas Dunford (Vancouver Playhouse; Bachtrack)