David NiceThursday
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Latest publication
- Aug 27, 2026
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- Jul 23, 2026
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BBC Proms: Van den Heever, The Met Orchestra, Nézet-Séguin review - a Strauss goddess descends (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. Accolades first for the deep sound in Strauss of The Met Orchestra, newcomers to the Proms, under its Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who has been in the Albert Hall ring many times, and for the flamethrowing Salome of Elza van den Heever. Only days ago I lamented
Ariadne auf Naxos, Glyndebourne review - from the half-life of the marionettes (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. Can the 1916 Prologue of Strauss and Hofmannsthal added to a revised version of a 1912 opera-within-a-play setting the backstage shenanigans to music ever fail? Yes, alas. It fell horribly flat last night despite some radiant singing. The love story of deserted Ariadne
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