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.
Articles By David Nice
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Allelujah!, Bridge Theatre review - hilarious but dark, dark...
The NHS is us. For decades our national identity has been bandaged together with the idea, and reality, of a health service that is free at the...
Saul, Glyndebourne review - from extravaganza to phantasmago...
It's swings and roundabouts for Glyndebourne this season. After the worst of one director currently in fashion, Stefan Herheim, in the unhappy...
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again review - sweet, silly, and, best...
Mamma Mia! has a habit of bursting upon us at...
Gary Numan, Assembly Hall, Worthing review - hot and hammeri...
Arriving back onstage for an encore a broadly smiling Gary Numan bathes in roared football chants of “Numan! Numan!”. He tells us it’s just over...
The Receptionist – London’s underground sex industry laid ba...
When director Jenny Lu graduated from...
L'Ange de Nisida / JPYAP Summer Programme, Royal Opera...
Two rules should help the non-Donizettian: avoid all...
theartsdesk at Cornbury: Pixie Lott, Amy MacDonald and Alani...
Cornbury Festival holds a very special place in my heart. When the babies were young, we realised that if we were going to be up all night without...
A Monster Calls, Old Vic - wild, beautiful theatre that begu...
A raw pagan vitality animates this extraordinary story about a teenage boy wrestling with tumultuous emotions in the face of his...
