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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

Bizet in 150th anniversary year: rich and rare French offerings from Palazzetto Bru Zane

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Kilsby, Parkes, Sinfonia of London, Wilson, Barbican review - string things zing and sing in expert hands

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Albert Herring, English National Opera review - a great comedy with depths fully realised

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Solomon, OAE, Butt, QEH review - daft Biblical whitewashing with great choruses

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Two-Piano Gala, Kings Place review - shining constellations

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Carmen, English National Opera review - not quite dangerous

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Scott, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Whelan, RIAM, Dublin review - towards a Mozart masterpiece

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theartsdesk at the New Ross Piano Festival - Finghin Collins’ musical rainbow

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Tosca, Royal Opera review - Ailyn Pérez steps in as the most vivid of divas

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Jansen, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - profound and bracing emotional workouts

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The Weir, Harold Pinter Theatre review - evasive fantasy, bleak truth and possible community

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Jakub Hrůša and Friends in Concert, Royal Opera review - fleshcreep in two uneven halves

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Monteverdi Choir, ORR, Heras-Casado, St Martin-in-the-Fields review - flames of joy and sorrow

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Cho, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - finely-focused stormy weather

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theartsdesk at the Lahti Sibelius Festival - early epics by the Finnish master in context

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BBC Proms: Barruk, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Kuusisto review - vague incantations, precise laments

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