Tom Tollet Reviews: Johns’ Boys Welsh Male Voice Choir – at Leeds Grand Theatre on 14 September
Next touring Wrexham, Llandaff Cathedral, Bristol, Dorking until 03 November. I expect, in the West at least, vocal harmony began with a monk’s first-ever mistake and over a millennium on from what must have been a shocking, ear-opening plainchant blunder, with extraordinary close four-part harmony, we now have Johns’ Boys Welsh Male Voice Choir charming […]
White Rose Orchestra SUNDAY 30 JUNE at Grove Methodists’ Church Hall, Horsforth 7 p.m.
and Bridge Ensemble at St Matthews Church, Chapel Allerton, on Saturday 6 July at 7.30 p.m. French composer Camille Saint-Saëns was one of musical history’s most remarkable and precocious child prodigies, so it is entirely fitting that North Leeds witnesses a youthful take on two of his searching concertante pieces in the coming week. York-born […]
My Fair Lady: Opera North at Leeds Playhouse Until 29 June
The most familiar production of Lerner and Loewe’s abidingly popular My Fair Lady is the Warner Brothers’ film adaptation from 1964. Though any theatrical version cannot hope to match a sophisticated visual creation from an established Californian film studio, upstaging the vocal shortcomings from croaky crooners such as Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Wilfred Hyde-White […]
Opera North: Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at Leeds Grand Theatre – Reviewed
From its very beginnings, Cosí Fan Tutte ossia La Scuola Degli Amanti (perhaps “They’re All The Same or The School For Lovers”) has had a rough time of it from the critics. Written immediately after the social and political upheavals of 1789 in Paris, it was taken to be an Enlightenment attempt to remodel comic […]
Gioachino Rossini: The Barber of Seville, sung sozz ev’ry sof’ bugga gets it!
BRATFORD OPPRA FESTIVAL Sent Georgi’s ‘All, Bratford Thuzdi 23 Nuvemba 2023 It wer’ mi wust fears realised t’uther deh in t’office when t’editter colls us in forra reet torkin’ tuh … “Now sithee ‘eer, Tommus, lad,” sez t’owd lass, “a very much dowt tha rilly noz yer ‘arp from yer oboe wen it cums t’ […]
