Fiona Maddocks
Classical Music Critic
Fiona Maddocks has been The Observer’s classical music critic since 2010. Her books include studies of Hildegard of Bingen and Harrison Birtwistle and, most recently,Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile.
Fiona Maddocks
Classical Music Critic
Fiona Maddocks has been The Observer’s classical music critic since 2010. Her books include studies of Hildegard of Bingen and Harrison Birtwistle and, most recently,Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile.
Vive la farce: Handel’s Partenope returns to ENO
Vive la farce: Handel’s Partenope returns to ENO
What to do this weekend, from holy dancing to William Kentridge’s sculptures
A radical reworking of The Makropulos Case
Oxford International Song festival hits a note of radicalism
Wexford festival’s operatic rarities
Benjamin Britten’s oddball masterpiece
Movers and Shakers at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Garland – a horse, a car park, and a night of pure imagination
Anna Netrebko electrifies in a controversial Tosca
Anton Bruckner’s divisive legacy
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District – satire at the opera
Lucerne’s musical bonanza
An elegy for Ukraine
The restless poetry of Kát’a Kabanová
A singalong Dido and Aeneas
A spectacular series of firsts at the Proms
Mark Simpson: ‘When I perform I’m like a shaman’
Leonard Bernstein’s opera of suburbia
