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Review: Street Scene, Birmingham Conservatoire at Crescent Theatre Mar 16 2012

Birmingham Conservatoire has pulled off an amazing achievement with this year’s major opera, Kurt Weill’s dusty, squalid Street Scene, a kind of EastEnders in downtown New York.Read

Birmingham Conservatoire celebrates composer Claude Debussy Feb 03 2012

A celebration of the French composer kicks-off a run of major festivals. Christopher Morley finds out what's in store.Read

Review: Dido and Aeneas, Operamus at Birmingham Conservatoire Sep 09 2011

Operamus is an amazing enterprise which, operating on a shoestring, offers meaningful performing opportunities to young singers and instrumentalists, and thought-provoking productions to appreciative audiences.Read

Review: Peter Donohoe, at Birmingham Conservatoire Aug 03 2011

Water was the theme of this recital and Peter Donohoe demonstrated how much musical variety can arise from plain old H2O. The water in Debussy’s Image No.1, Reflet dans l’Eau, flowed smoothly, graciously and with an aristocratic air while in Ravel’s Jeux d’Eauit was sparkling and effervescent with a twinkle in its aqueous eye.Read

Jazz Diary May 26 2011

The jazz scene in Birmingham has changed dramatically over the last couple of decades.Read

Review: The Cunning Little Vixen, Birmingham Conservatoire at the Crescent Theatre Mar 18 2011

The Cunning Little Vixen, Janacek’s enchanting opera of nature’s renewal through the seasons while glum humans look morosely on, would seem a perfect vehicle for a student opera.Read

The musical musings of Myriam Toumi Mar 17 2011

Christopher Morley speaks to the founder of a new all-woman Birmingham choir.Read

Review: Peter Donohoe, at Birmingham Conservatoire Feb 11 2011

In Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas, as in his late string quartets, the sublime, ferocious and the lyrical sit cheek-by-jowl. These works can astonish, disturb and console us. Read

Review: Peter Donohoe, Birmingham Conservatoire Feb 04 2011

Sunday’s penultimate instalment of Peter Donohoe’s complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle saw this profoundly thoughtful musician reaching the very peak of this pianistic Everest.Read