“Ahead of us, the summer is thick with musical promise.”
Right now, London is awash with gorgeous music. Amid the election and Brexit verbosity, how welcoming it is to relax in the harmonies of golden sounds. Recent treats include Thomas Adès’s new opera, The Exterminating Angel, at the Royal
Opera House – an intense score of dazzling virtuosity, sung by the world’s finest.
When I first went to this venue in the late Fifties to hear Maria Callas and Jon Vickers, I sat on wooden benches in the gods; the toffs sat in the stalls in posh clothes. All of that …read more
Source: New Statesman
