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Boyd Tonkin

Articles By Boyd Tonkin

theartsdesk at the Ryedale Festival: dances, and songs, to the music of time

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Prom 5, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bancroft review - a luxury orchestral cruise

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ll Segreto di Susanna/Pagliacci, Opera Holland Park review - on with the motley, out with the fags

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Orlando, Academy of Ancient Music, Cummings, Barbican review - madly beautiful

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Tosca, Opera Holland Park review - passion and populism

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sousa, St Martin-in-the-Fields review - Beethoven, younger than springtime

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Coote, LSO, Tilson Thomas, Barbican review - the triumph of life

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Queyras, Philharmonia, Suzuki, RFH review - Romantic journeys

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Aci by the River, London Handel Festival, Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse review - myths for the #MeToo age

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Josefowicz, LPO, Järvi, RFH review - friendly monsters

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Bach's Easter Oratorio, OAE, Whelan, QEH review - the joys of springtime

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Winterreise, Clayton, Aurora Orchestra, Collon, QEH review - new maps for the great journey

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theartsdesk in Strasbourg: crossing the frontiers

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The Magic Flute, English National Opera review - return of an enchanted evening

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Manon Lescaut, English Touring Opera review - a nightmare in too many ways

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Lugansky, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Letonja, Cadogan Hall review - Russian soul, French flair

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