alexandra.coghlan

alexandra coghlan

Bio

Alexandra is the classical music critic of the New Statesman, and has written on arts for The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, Prospect, Gramophone, Opera Now, The Oxford Times and The Monthly. She was formerly Performing Arts Editor at Time Out, Sydney. She writes about classical music, theatre and film for theartsdesk.

Articles By Alexandra Coghlan

How Lonely Sits The City, Dunedin Consort online review - almost as good as being in the concert hall Friday, 20 November 2020 Read more...	Allan Clayton, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, James Baillieu, Wigmore Hall review - consummate musicality and technique Thursday, 22 October 2020 Read more...
Louise Alder, Roger Vignoles, Wigmore Hall review - German Romanticism meets French eroticism Saturday, 10 October 2020 Read more...	Eugene Onegin, Komische Oper, OperaVision review - sensual and devastating Saturday, 09 May 2020 Read more...
Cosi fan tutte, English Touring Opera review - a blissful, uncomplicated delight Monday, 02 March 2020 Read more...	The Taming of the Shrew, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review - a confused and toothless mess Saturday, 08 February 2020 Read more...
prisoner of the state, Barbican review - beauty, but where is the drama? Sunday, 12 January 2020 Read more...	Der Freischütz, Barbican review - Gothic chills rooted in flesh and earth Tuesday, 05 November 2019 Read more...
Zauberland, Linbury Theatre review - an adaptation that adds much and gains nothing Wednesday, 16 October 2019 Read more...	theartsdesk at Itinéraire Baroque 2019 - a musical journey through the Périgord Monday, 05 August 2019 Read more...
Il Segreto di Susanna/Iolanta, Opera Holland Park review - superb singing, mixed staging Tuesday, 23 July 2019 Read more...	Trouble in Tahiti/A Dinner Engagement, Royal College of Music review - slick, witty and warm Saturday, 29 June 2019 Read more...
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nevill Holt Opera review - sprinkled with musical fairy-dust Thursday, 13 June 2019 Read more...	Un ballo in maschera, Opera Holland Park review - evocative and sensationally sung Monday, 10 June 2019 Read more...
Falstaff, The Grange Festival review - belly laughs and bags of fun Saturday, 08 June 2019 Read more...	Agrippina, Barbican review - over-the-top comic brilliance Saturday, 01 June 2019 Read more...

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