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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Trifonov, LSO, Rattle, Barbican review - Russian style with...
The arc of Daniil Trifonov’s reputation has soared and then, to some ears, stalled in a familiar modern way. Russian Wunderkind pianist...
Sheeps, Soho Theatre review - sketch comedy with a touch of...
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Agnes Colander, Jermyn Street Theatre review - Naomi Frederi...
Remembering meeting Harley Granville Barker when casting him as Marchbanks in Candida, Shaw described the 23-year-old as, "altogether the...
CD: Susanna & The Brotherhood of Our Lady - Garden of Ea...
Lyrics such as “are we hunting for life among misery, Satan have pity on my long distress” and “we’re on a ship of fools, sails laughing and...
Traitors, Channel 4 review - Cold War thriller fails to reac...
It’s 1945 and World War Two is nearly over....
Elīna Garanča, Malcolm Martineau, Wigmore Hall review - towa...
It seems an almost indecent luxury to have heard two top mezzos...
9 to 5 the Musical review - Dolly Parton's film returns...
A musicals-intensive season gets off to a wan start with...
The Lady from the Sea, Print Room at the Coronet review - fr...
Ellida (Pia Tjelta) has a choice to make, the outcome of which will bind her future to her past or her present, each represented by a man. On the...
Ek, CBSO, Gražinytė-Tyla, Symphony Hall, Birmingham review -...
British concert audiences now know and love one great Lithuanian, among the most communicative and individual conductors in the world today (note...
Baptiste, BBC One review - detective from The Missing gets h...
Is there an algorithm for writing this review? There seems to have been one used to create Baptiste, a spin-off from ...