David Nice
Bio
David writes, lectures and broadcasts on music. A former music critic for The Guardian and The Sunday Correspondent, he is a regular voice on BBC Radio 3. 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 his own lecture series, Opera in Depth, at the Frontline Club in Paddington.
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The $50m Art Swindle, BBC Two review - ramblin' gamblin...
“It’s nice to make money – lots of money,” said Michel Cohen, former high-flying New York art dealer turned debtor, jailbird and fugitive. He made...
Agrippina, Royal Opera review - carry on up the Campidoglio
It was said of the Venetian audiences randy for the satirical antique of Handel's first great operatic cornucopia in 1708 that "a stranger who...
Tim Walker: Wonderful Things, V&A review - a bracing ful...
If leafing through the pages of Vogue is a soothing balm, Wonderful Things is a bracing full-body immersion. Though it builds on...
San Sebastian Film Festival: Proxima review – Eva Green has...
Proxima is a very special, very beautiful...
Al Alvarez: 'If I drop dead this minute, I’ve had a ter...
We like to think of ourselves as a nation of eccentrics, but some take their patriotic duties more seriously than others. Al Alvarez –...
The Sisters of Mercy, Roundhouse review - hits delivered fro...
While bands such as The Birthday Party, Siouxsie and the Banshees and, especially, Bauhaus had a hand in inventing goth music at the start of the...
Ed Byrne, Berry Theatre, Hedge End review - musing on middle...
Ed Byrne's new show takes a philosophical bent as he muses on middle age and fatherhood. But don't worry, he's not getting soft at the age of 47...
CD: The New Pornographers – In the Morse Code of Brake Light...
New Pornographer-in-chief AC Newman grew up enraptured by how much and how little...
10 Questions for conductor Charles Hazlewood
Charles Hazlewood (b. 1966) has worked across the gamut of...