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Tag Archives: Aldeburgh Festival

Myth illustrated with music: Purcell’s King Arthur at the Aldeburgh Festival

English semi-opera is a strange beast: a story broken up and illustrated by music. Once you settle into it, the shuttling rhythm between music and story is surprisingly and undeniably…

June 27, 2017 in Semi-Opera.

Boy Donne good: Toby Spence in Tippett and Britten III, Aldeburgh Festival

Although his words could have been crisper, all the songs came across with a pleasing sense of flow, Spence’s light lyric tenor happily expanding to the rafters at Snape, when…

June 24, 2016 in Concert.

Music more than words: Britten and Tippett at the Aldeburgh Festival

Although I had undoubtedly come to Snape that evening solely in order to hear Ian Bostridge sing Britten and Tippett, I left feeling the most astonished, and exhilarated, by Britten’s…

June 20, 2016 in Concert.

Starting as you mean to go on: Britten’s Les Illuminations at Aldeburgh Festival

Director Struan Leslie’s reimagining of Britten’s Les Illuminations song cycle opened the Aldeburgh Festival with an exciting array of circus performers, creating a dreamy evening without plot, but heady with potent mood,…

June 13, 2016 in Concert.

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