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Eleanor Knight
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Books, art, theatre, music, nonsense.
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Aiming high: Hugh Cutting on Handel, good storytelling and countertenor appeal
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November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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What a total pleasure to talk storytelling with brilliant counter-tenor Hugh Cutting for @bachtrack.com. Catch him and a stellar cast in Partenope at ENO.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Just as the Katie Mitchell headlines recede, opera says 'hold my beer' - AGAIN

Stikhina and Clayton shine in DNO's uneven Maid of Orleans | Bachtrack share.google/7jywp02Pdayi...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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My review now in...@OperaNow Janáček: Káťa Kabanová at Glyndebourne | Live Review | Gramophone share.google/yLqrwCkVWwim...
Janáček: Káťa Kabanová at Glyndebourne | Live Review
Heavy-handedness might have cut off this production’s electricity, but the wrath - the wrath is divine
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August 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Well done, Jeff! @wildtwin.bsky.social
thetls.bsky.social The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Jul 23
Congratulations to Jeff Young, winner of this year’s TLS Ackerley Prize for his highly original and exhilaratingly written memoir ‘Wild Twin’, published by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social‬
July 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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So we're saying The Salt Path is peppered with inaccuracies?
July 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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bachtrack.com/22/296/view/28 I spent a dark and stormy night in Holland Park for @bachtrack.com
Doomed Dutchman wants a wife: Wagner makes Opera Holland Park debut
Amid the rough winds of late May, Julia Burbach directs Opera Holland Park's first venture into Wagner – The Flying Dutchman.
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May 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Death by omelette: Palazzetto Bru Zane uncovers the lost Bizet
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Death by omelette: uncovering the lost Bizet
Musicologist Alexandre Dratwicki talks about Palazetto Bru Zane’s cycle of Georges Bizet performances, of rare works and historical stagings, continuing throughout this year across Europe and Asia.
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April 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Bizet meets beef stock. A delight to talk music and crockery with Alexandre Dratwicki for @bachtrack.com

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Death by omelette: uncovering the lost Bizet
Musicologist Alexandre Dratwicki talks about Palazetto Bru Zane’s cycle of Georges Bizet performances, of rare works and historical stagings, continuing throughout this year across Europe and Asia.
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April 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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This May, the world’s leading orchestras and soloists gather in Amsterdam for a grand celebration of all things Mahler – a city the composer described as his “second musical homeland”.
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Mecca for Mahlerians: Amsterdam Mahler Festival 2025
This May, the world’s leading orchestras and soloists gather in Amsterdam for a grand celebration of all things Mahler – a city the composer described as his “second musical homeland”.
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March 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I loved the new @philipvenables.bsky.social opera at DNO, Amsterdam
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Venables We Are the Lucky Ones is the time to be alive at DNO
Inspired by Annie Ernaux’s The Years, Philip Venables’ new opera widens the canvas to take in the whole of Europe’s postwar generation.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I will be listening to no further news bulletins at this time.
March 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Look, I don't always mention underwear... Here's why the youth need Schumann's Paradise & the Peri. And a pleasure to talk to Laurence Equilbey and Daniela Kerck for @bachtrack.com
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Romantic elsewheres: gaining entry to Schumann’s Paradise and the Peri
Simon Rattle called Robert Schumann’s strange, Orientalist oratorio “the greatest masterpiece you’ve never heard of”. We discover this enigmatic piece ahead of Insula orchestra’s production at La Sein...
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March 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Heads should have rolled in Riga long before curtain up. My bit for @bachtrack.com bachtrack.com/22/296/view/...
Salome in Riga, Winehouse at the Western Wall... with robots
The limitations of AI are demonstrated in Alvis Hermanis’ problematic new production of Salome at Latvian National Opera.
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February 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Such a pleasure to talk to the creative team behind a new commission for Dutch National Opera. Oum: A son's quest for his mother www.gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/fe...
Dutch National Opera’s Oum – A Son’s Quest for His Mother: ‘It’s a story that’s going forwards and backwards at the same time’
The new production from director Kenza Koutchoukali and composer Bushra El-Turk pulls from a megastar of Arabic classical music to tell a tale of familial reconciliation. Eleanor Knight meets the crea...
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February 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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À partir de jeudi, hommage à la grande Oum Kalthoum à la Philharmonie. philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/magazine/...
Oum Kalthoum, entre tradition et modernité
Égérie de la culture égyptienne dans le monde arabe et au-delà, l'« astre de l’Orient » nous a quittés il y a 50 ans, sans pour autant cesser de rayonner. Alain Weber, conseiller pour les musiques du ...
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January 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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My bit for @bachtrack.com on Royal Opera's almighty Jenůfa.
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Redemption Song: Jenůfa triumph signals a bright future for Hrůsa
Corinne Winters is phenomenal as the self-possessed Jenůfa in The Royal Opera's revival of Claus Guth's powerful staging.
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January 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Looking forward to winter weather.
January 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I may be a late adopter, but goodness me, this is my dream podcast. All the things we talk about when we talk about clothes, and what we say with - or without - them. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud
Fashion & Beauty Podcast · 13 Episodes · Updated weekly
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December 31, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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My night out in Amsterdam for @bachtrack.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Sinterklaas's little helper just arrived for the ultimate Christmas party #DieFledermaus Dutch National Opera
December 5, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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I have found the restoration of Notre Dame profoundly moving. The renaissance of ancient crafts that might otherwise have dwindled. Hundreds working together in a glorious expression of skill and beauty, all in the service of something none of us understands. And now this. Reader, I lost it.
November 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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Offener Brief von Barrie Kosky an den Berliner Senat: „Beenden Sie nicht das, was die Nazis begonnen haben“
Der ehemalige Intendant der Komischen Oper erinnert an die jüdische Geschichte des Hauses und ruft die Regierenden dazu auf, einen Baustopp abzuwenden. Wir veröffentlichen den Brief im Wortlaut.
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November 23, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Elizabeth Bowen. Queen of grown-ups.
November 23, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Thankyou, Ian McEwan, I have just lost my breakfast.
November 21, 2024 at 9:23 AM