Classical music journalist. Author, Carols From King's, Ebury, 2016.
Alexandra Coghlan
Rhinegold and foxes, ChatGPT and DADABOTS: I took a trip through the AI looking-glass at the weekend at the Royal Opera's RBO/SHIFT festival: www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/rbos...
"There's always the tantalising possibility that it might end. But it never does." John Tavener's "Mystical pantomime" Krishna reviewed for Opera Now: www.opera-now.com/content/revi...
Brutal, brilliant music-theatre from the Manchester Camerata and Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
So many good stories in Julia Boyd's new history of the Wigmore Hall. Who knew that they had mediums and quacks and even an American Indian lighting a fire on stage back in the day?! Review for the Spectator: spectator.com/article/the-...
A whiff of the cruise ship about this bizarre Winterreise-highlights-and-Weill from Thomas Hampson & Ksenija Sidorova: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
Mahler on the move? I volunteered as guinea pig for Tom Morris & Sinfonia Smith Square's "Mahler Experiment": www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Loved the music, not so sure about the concept of the Monteverdi Choir's Dido & Aeneas at the Cutty Sark: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
"Help isn't coming". Ahead of his Aldeburgh Pelleas and premieres I spoke to Ryan Wigglesworth about growing up as a "strange boy", Oliver Knussen, inspiration, and the future of music education: theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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50 years on the concert platform: Anne-Sophie Mutter launches her anniversary tour: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST @operahollandpark.bsky.social - A handsome staging of Puccini's gold-rush opera seems bound to win some converts - @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social enjoys a spunky start to OHP's 30th anniversary season www.theartsdesk.com/opera/la-fan...
The musician first visited Aldeburgh as a teenage fanboy. Now, he is at the centre of this year’s festival as its featured artist – and he’s opening with his favourite opera
Tom Morris’s staged take on Mahler’s first symphony is valiantly performed by Stephanie Childress and Sinfonia Smith Square, but the result feels more like R&D than a finished product
Mutter’s anniversary tour opened with a programme of Beethoven, André Previn and – ever a champion of new music – the European premiere of Aftab Darvishi’s Likoo, a rhapsodic lament for women under th...
The US singer Thomas Hampson paired with accordionist Ksenija Sidorova to perform highlights from Schubert’s Winterreise alongside Weill and Piazzolla. Alas much of this disappointing evening felt lik...
A clever programme brought a mounting sense of lost grip, from Errollyn Wallen voicing the shame of Hamlet’s Ophelia, to Schumann’s fraught love declaration, and Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for...
If you’ve ever strolled to the Wallace Collection or hurried to an appointment in Harley Street, fled an overcrowded Selfridges or sat on a sunny bench in Cavendish Square Gardens, you’ll probably hav...
