Alcina, Leeds Grand Theatre, Opera North, review: doesn’t get a Handel on the magic
The trouble is that it’s not remotely sexy. A brutally truncated Act I gives little sense of languor as we scramble and dive through exposition. Only the…
Willard White interview: ‘I thought no real man would go on stage and sing’
Nature certainly had fun creating Willard White’s voice box. A combination of treacle and granite, its sweet and hard sonorities cannot be muffled even by Zoom. It’s…