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Michael White’s classical news: I Puritani; Tristan and Isolde; London from Hampstead Heath; Proms at St Jude’s

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By Michael White
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Helen Charlston [Matthew Johnson] IT’S unlikely that you’ve ever lost sleep wondering what Queen Victoria’s favourite opera was. But for the record, it was Bellini’s I Puritani (The Puritans) which, despite royal enthusiasm, went on to fall out of fashion and hasn’t played Covent Garden for decades – until now, when it returns in a new Richard Jones production running June 30-July 19. One thing that will have attracted the Queen is that it’s a yarn about English history.
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Michael White’s classical news: Proms at St Jude’s; Elisabeth Leonskaja; Drew Steanson; Four Seasons; Spitalfields Festival

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By Michael White
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Kaspara Mikuzis [Olivia Da Dosta] IF you were making a list of the most extraordinary, extravagant and over-the-top piano pieces ever written, a necessary contender would be Leopold Godowsky’s Java Suite. Written in 1925 by a virtuoso performer / composer born in Lithuania but in love with SE Asia, it chronicles a journey there in Technicolor soundscapes. And it’s awesomely hard to play – which is why it doesn’t often get programmed: pianists retreat in fear.
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Westminster Extra The independent London newspaper

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By Michael White
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Isabelle Peters rehearsing for Turn of the Screw [Max Miechowski] BENJAMIN Britten’s Turn of the Screw is one of those small-scale operas that punch way above their weight. With just six singers and an orchestra of 13, it can hammer holes into your soul.
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