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David Nice

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The classical music and opera editor of theartsdesk, David writes, lectures and broadcasts on music. A former music critic for The Guardian and The Sunday Correspondent, he has made regular appearances on BBC Radio 3, not least in the long-running series Building a Library. He has written short studies on Elgar, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and the history of opera, and is currently working on the second volume of his Prokofiev biography for Yale University Press. He runs two Zoom lecture series, Opera in Depth on Mondays and a symphonies course on Thursdays.

Articles By David Nice

St Matthew Passion, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Whelan, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin review - the heights rescaled

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Kraggerud, Irish Chamber Orchestra, RIAM Dublin review - stomping, dancing, magical Vivaldi plus

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LSO, Noseda, Barbican review - Half Six shake-up

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Frang, LPO, Jurowski, RFH review - every beauty revealed

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Levit, Sternath, Wigmore Hall review - pushing the boundaries in Prokofiev and Shostakovich

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Biss, National Symphony Orchestra, Kuokman, NCH Dublin review - full house goes wild for vivid epics

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Der fliegende Holländer, Irish National Opera review - sailing to nowhere

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Die Zauberflöte, Royal Academy of Music review - first-rate youth makes for a moving experience

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Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Whelan, St George’s Hanover Square review - Handel’s journey of a soul

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Marsalis, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - sounds above substance

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Bavouzet, BBCSO, Stasevska, Barbican review - ardent souls in mythic magic

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Levit, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer, RFH review - anger unleashed, fantasy finessed in Prokofiev

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A Form of Exile: Edward Said and Late Style, CLS, Wood, QEH review - baggy ferment of ideas and sounds

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Mansfield Park, Guildhall School review - fun when frothy, chugging in romantic entanglements

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Uprising, Glyndebourne review - didactic community opera superbly performed

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The Ferryman, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin review - Jez Butterworth's Northern Irish epic comes close to home

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