Wilderness was my friend Vinnie’s idea. Less music, more rounded arts experience. It seemed a new kind of festival. It felt as if a little piece of the folkloric California after which our fathers hankered, might still exist.
“I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe. I will tell you things at random.” These words reverberated around the head of composer Simon Jeffes. This is the sound of someone you love who’s going away and it doesn’t matter…
Paul Guest reviews two of the operas from The Royal Opera’s spring season, Fidelio and The Tsar’s Bride, which will both be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this month.
My reactions to music are purely emotional: love, hatred or indifference. Music is only important…
Alex Larman, eagle-eyed journalist and cultural commentator with a voracious hunger for all things splendiferous, visits the ENO to experience Terry Gilliam’s operatic production of The Damnation of Faust.
Young soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn has had a difficult ride. After gaining a scholarship to study…
Last week, Daniel Barenboim took to the Tate Modern Turbine Hall Bridge to give a one-off, all-Chopin concert with the Staatskapelle Berlin. Our wild-haired, roving music critic Paul Guest reports…
He said, our path is not clear. I said, I must find a path without…
Marianne Faithfull lived on a wall for almost two years, listening to the smack talk.…
Sex is in the mind; it is the product of a thousand memories and fleeting…
I’m not a religious person in the conventional sense, but I do believe that the…
Music critic Paul Guest visits The Royal Opera House to experience the latest performance to cause gasps of horror, shock and delight among West End audiences; the tragic tale of Anna Nicole Smith.