Tag Archives: Peter Whelan

Top ten operas 2022

Posted on December 26, 2022 by Mark Pullinger

This was the year that opera houses got back to something approaching “normality” post-pandemic. It’s easy to forget that at the start of 2022, Covid restrictions were still very much in place: visiting Vienna in January, one needed proof of … Continue reading →

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Winds of Change: a new bassoon concerto ushered in by the OAE

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Mozart, Gordon/ OAE *** St John’s Smith Square, 7th May 2016 It’s likely that Mozart never actually heard his Clarinet Concerto performed. His friend Anton Stadler gave the première in Prague in October 1791, less than two months before the … Continue reading →

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