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Erica Jeal

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May 2026

  • Three performers in period costume on stage, one kneeling center with arms raised, two standing holding hands above

    Orlando review – a confident romp through Handel’s flimsily plotted opera

  • Holds the attention fast … Lahav Shani conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

    Dvořák: Symphony No 9 album review – Shani brings a natural freshness to a familiar work

  • Verdi's La Traviata, Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Stokenchurch, UK | Pictured: Madison Leonard (Violetta Valéry); Oleksiy Palchykov (Alfredo Germont); Roland Wood (Giorgio Germont); Henry Waddington (Doctor Grenvil); Mathilda Bryngelsson (Annina) | Image © Julian Guidera 2026

    La Traviata review – gripping and genuinely moving staging opens Garsington’s summer season

  • Music that moves, chameleon-like, through styles … soprano Claire Booth and composer Colin Matthews.

    Colin Matthews: Seascapes album review – the songs teem with detail

  • 125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths

  • Requiem for America review – Brent Michael Davids gives the invisible a voice in his urgent new work

  • Peter Grimes review – beauty and terror in Warner’s topical staging

  • Tales of Love and Loss review – hauntings, tragicomedy and tweezer-sharp wit in Royal Opera triple bill

  • Morales: L’Homme Armé masses and Magnificat Secundi Toni album review – choral sounds of 16th-century Rome

April 2026

  • Cellist Paul Watkins

    Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano and Cello album review – Watkins and Bax have a shared impulse to deliver eloquence

  • LPO's Wozzeck: Wretches Like Us at the Royal Festival, as part of the Southbank Centre's Multitudes festival

    Wozzeck: Wretches Like Us review – Berg’s harrowing opera is more adrenaline-inducing than ever

  • The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and light artists Squidsoup perform Echoes of Hill and Horizon, an evening of Vaughan Williams as part of the Southbank Centre's Multitudes festival.

    Multitudes festival: Echoes of Hill and Horizon review – epic light show electrifies Elgar and Vaughan Williams

  • Abel Selaocoe, press, publicity photo

    Magnificent minimalism, sizzling Strauss, bracing Berlioz: Guardian critics’ top picks for Proms 2026

  • LSO/Frang/Pappano review – tragic and thrilling Shostakovich and silky and spiky Korngold

  • Brodsky Quartet / William Barton review – two hemispheres meet in winning didgeridoo collaboration

  • National Youth Orchestra/ Chauhan: Collide review – surging energy and remarkable intensity

  • Shostakovich: Symphonies No 2 and 5 album review – early experiment meets mature power

  • Messiah album review – Whelan takes Handel’s oratorio back to its beginnings

March 2026

  • Emilia Blossom Ostroumoff as Flora and Isabelle Peters as Governess in The Turn of the Screw

    The Turn of the Screw review – gripping and unsettling water-logged staging of Britten’s ghost story

  • John Butt, Anna Dennis (Mary Magdalene), centre, Marcus Farnsworth (Jesus), Tansy Davies, far right, and the Dunedin Consort receive applause during The Passion of Mary Magdalene by Tansy Davies @ Barbican Hall. Directed and Conducted by John Butt. (Opening 24-03-2026) ©Tristram Kenton 03-26 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Passion of Mary Magdalene review – Tansy Davies’s score is taut and intriguing

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