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stephen walsh

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Stephen is a former Observer music critic and a regular contributor to The Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent and the BBC. He is the author of a major biography of Stravinsky and other books on Stravinsky, Bartók and Schumann. He holds a chair in music at Cardiff University.

Articles By Stephen Walsh

Tamerlano, The Grange Festival review - Handel brilliant in parts, but you have to wait for the drama

Saturday, 11 June 2022 Read more...

Siegfried, Longborough Festival review - happily concept-free but with 'Good Ideas'

Tuesday, 31 May 2022 Read more...

Jenůfa, Welsh National Opera review - powerful drama with a kitsch tailpiece

Sunday, 13 March 2022 Read more...

Don Giovanni, Welsh National Opera review - fine young cast let down by unhelpful conducting

Saturday, 19 February 2022 Read more...

Madam Butterfly, Welsh National Opera review - decent performance, disagreeable context

Wednesday, 29 September 2021 Read more...

The Barber of Seville, Welsh National Opera review - back to work in an old banger

Friday, 10 September 2021 Read more...

The Cunning Little Vixen, Longborough Festival Opera review - life, death and the menopause in the forest

Sunday, 01 August 2021 Read more...

theartsdesk at the Three Choirs Festival - Purcell, Gabriel Jackson and Duruflé

Thursday, 29 July 2021 Read more...

Die Walküre, Longborough Festival Opera review - heroic defiance of farcical constraints

Friday, 04 June 2021 Read more...

Pagliacci, Opera Ensemble, Longborough review - stripped down but live

Monday, 21 December 2020 Read more...

Brecon Baroque, Podger, Brecon Cathedral online review - Bach recoloured

Monday, 26 October 2020 Read more...

Denis and Katya, Music Theatre Wales / Uproar, Rafferty review - disturbing the untroubled monotony of South Wales music

Saturday, 29 February 2020 Read more...

Les vêpres siciliennes, Welsh National Opera review - spectacular, silly, but some great music

Sunday, 09 February 2020 Read more...

Podger, Brecon Baroque, Hollingworth, Brecon Cathedral review - Bohemian footnotes yield the extraordinary

Saturday, 26 October 2019 Read more...

The Cunning Little Vixen, Welsh National Opera review - family night in the forest

Saturday, 12 October 2019 Read more...

Rigoletto, Welsh National Opera review - same old update, fine performance

Saturday, 28 September 2019 Read more...

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