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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 28, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Theartsdesk
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- Aug 7, 2026
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BBC Proms: DiDonato, The Met Orchestra, Nézet-Séguin review - between earth and heaven (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. At this year’s Aldeburgh Festival, I watched Lise Davidsen take a young singer through Mahler’s “Liebst du um Schönheit” in a riveting public masterclass. Go big on feeling and meaning, urged the great Norwegian operatic soprano, but drop the beefy “opera” voice. Impecc
BBC Proms: Oberon, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Elder review - the sublime and the ridiculous (opens the original)
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We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Poor Oberon! An opera scorned so long as weird and silly, A mash-up of outlandish tales all chucked in willy-nilly. Now brave Sir Mark (the Elder one) rides out to save its name. On Albert Hall’s broad field, will he win immortal fame And glorify the final work of Carl
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